Armondas Tamulis, Worldskills UK team representative for Wall and Floor Tiling at the Worldskills final in Abu Dhabi, recently attended a pressure test at a vocational college in Denmark. Armondas travelled with Worldskills UK training expert Paul Doran and was part of a large international group from the UK, India, Belarus, Hungary, Russia and Denmark […]

Children Today, the TTA’s nominated charity, are offering the chance to win a brand new Skoda Citigo SE 3 door (worth over £8,550!) in their new Charity Raffle. Draw tickets cost just £1 each for every entry – and will be distributed with the September issue of Tile & Stone Journal – while runner-up prizes […]

Weber’s latest introduction is the new easy-to-use WeberSpec online tool that allows architects and specifiers to create up-to-date and technically accurate tiling specifications at www.weberspec.co.uk. In a simple registration procedure an account can be opened and accessed by email and password. A project brief is required with prompts to enter specific fields such as: the […]

Tilemaster Adhesives has announced that it has been acquired by Kerakoll. Following the acquisition, the two brands will continue to run separately, in order to continue building and progressing both brands. Tilemaster’s managing director Mark Kelly and the rest of the team – including Paul and Rhona Kelly – will continue in their roles, with […]

It’s a hot topic at the moment – cyber risk is now a subject touched upon on many occasions and is of increasing importance to businesses. A recent report (IBM X-Force Research: 2016 Cyber Security Intelligence Index) found that 60% of cyber attacks were as a result of insider activity. According to the TTA’s insurance […]

Larsen is delighted to announce the launch of its latest and most comprehensive literature, The Specification Guide for Tiling. This follows many months of hard work within the company. The Specification Guide has been designed totally with the customer in mind from the retail partner to the contractor, from the architect to the developer. It […]

Kerakoll has just launched a new type of adhesive made from gel technology. The company says that using this technology has enabled them to dispense with all of the different formulations for different substrates and tile types that exist with standard C2 cement-based adhesives: with Biogel adhesives there are only 2 choices that have to […]

The Worshipful Company of Tylers & Bricklayers is joining up with more than 20 other City of London Livery Companies for an exciting new event to be held at Lincoln Cathedral. Designed to celebrate Britain’s unique heritage crafts and trades, the Heritage Skills Festival will take place on 23 and 24 June. This is the […]

A Nicholls & Clarke advertisement from 1913, taken from a publication of the time, shows how products within the bathroom industry have changed and have become more modern over time.  Since the invention of bathroom products, their design, style and practicality has changed dramatically. The historic N&C advert shows illustrations of a “family boiler” and a […]

BAL have lent their support to part-time tiler and strongman Steven Stevens. 26 year-old Steven from Blackpool is currently preparing for the Monsters Ball Strongman Competition in August. He will compete in iconic strongman events such as the Atlas Stones, Log Lift and Tyre Flips against strongmen from across the UK. Steven, who is also living […]