At the annual TTA Awards last Friday the tiling industry rolled out the red carpet in style to recognise and celebrate the top achievers in our sector. It was a spectacular gala Awards night, which many in the industry are hailing as the best-ever, where Awards were presented in 17 categories. The evening was hosted […]
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The Tiling Show, organised by The Tile Association, has firmly established itself as a must-attend event for our industry. Taking place last Friday at The Hilton Birmingham Metropole, the Show attracted 32 exhibitors, growing strongly for its second year, and proved to be an essential day out for fixers, retailers and others from the tiling […]
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Photo shows: David Forbes (TTA Board Member) with Roy Croft. Roy Croft’s company, Stortford Tiling, is now employing the fifth generation of his family in the business. Roy left school in 1967 just before his 15th birthday and he started off helping his dad by mixing grouts, loading and unloading lorries and other aspects of […]
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Photo shows: Billy Valler (TTA Board Member), Steve Wagstaff. Steve started his career in tiling 25 years ago, working for a local tiler, largely on domestic projects. Steve jointly owns Pro-Tilers UK Wall & Floor Ltd with Mark Callan and they have three employees and 12 sub-contractors in regular employment. They work mainly on high-end […]
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Photo shows: Jason Reid (UltraTileFix) and from Parkside – Fraser Lockley, Sarah Holey, Louise Reddell, Sat Sandu. What makes this collection so different from anything else on the market is that Kaste01 is available as a shower tray fashioned from the same material as concrete effect tiles. These are used on both the floor and […]
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Photo shows: Richard Wallis (TTA Board Member) with Daniel Porter, Masood Mirza, Eric Broug of Roccia. This creatively unique external wall installation creates a fusion between past and present, for the future and for generations to come. The only one of its kind in Europe, it uses variations in colour and shape to form a […]
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Picture shows: Liz Oakes (Children Today) with Ann Quirke and Becky Firth from House of Mosaics. House of Mosaics launched a new display stand into all 100 Tile Giant stores in November 2018. The whole project took just 8 weeks from start to finish. The short time-frame is by no means reflective of the work that […]
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Photo shows: Philip Lucas (Banks & Lloyd) with Martin Mallon and Paul Quinn of Armatile. Armatile is recognised as a specialist in the bespoke design and manufacture of tile and mosaic surfaces for individual interior, commercial and residential projects and larger tile distributors throughout the UK. The company has expertly integrated within its offering the […]
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Topps Tiles Plc has announced a 0.2% increase in like-for-like sales in the 26-week period to 30 March. Total revenues were £108.8 million. Trading over the second quarter has improved from the levels reported in Q1, with like-for-like sales increasing by 1.8%. The company says that the effect of weather conditions in the prior year and a […]
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TTA chairman, Paul Luff, has attended the presentation of The Montgomery Award for Wall and Floor Tiling to this year’s winner, Odhran Connelly. The Worshipful Company of Tylers & Bricklayers presents this Award as part of its annual Craft Awards. Odhran Connelly attends the Southern Regional College in Northern Ireland and had already won the […]
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