Health and Safety at Work

Health and Safety at Work

Safety is so important at work but so often overlooked. I take it seriously because if i tile in your house it affects you too. I am qualified in Health & Safety and I also have Safe Pass and a Safety Statement which describes what I do and how I do it in regard to Health and Safety. This is actually a legal requirement but a lot of tradesmen don’t seem to have one, possibly they think it doesn’t matter but in my opinion safety really is important, it shouldn’t be just something other people do. In all my time tiling, actually in 30 years of self-employment, i have never had an incident or an accident at work and that’s not just down to luck, it does require a bit of time and...

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How to tile your bathroom

How to tile your bathroom

Tiling a bathroom, well to be honest its not rocket science, if you’re any way handy or slightly adventurous there’s no reason why you couldn’t be a tiler and try it yourself. Realistically you probably wouldn’t get the fit and finish a professional tiler would deliver but you could call that character, and it would probably take you a fair bit longer to do, but if you’ve ever had a yearning to make a change in your home that you’ve done all yourself, give it a go it can be very rewarding. Oh and if it goes a little bit wrong don’t worry, you can contact me here and i’ll get back to you with the info you need to complete it. So I know these pictures aren’t the best, they were taken with wet hands and a wet iPhone but it should give you an idea of the steps needed to complete the job. And regarding time, this room would have taken around two days for me on my own, the border around the walls is mosaic and that slows the process down a lot so i ended up going into the third day but that was ok as I was tiling the rest of the house...

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