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  1. Mixing 300

    Started by gooner4life, 1 Day Ago
    bit, hose, job, mixing, thi, things, time, van, water
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 90
    mellosoul
    1 Day Ago Go to last post

  2. How to Remove 1 Inch tiles from concrete floor, PLEASE HELP!

    Started by billy_111, 23-10-2011
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    big, bit, burned, concre, concrete, drill, end, fit, fitted, flat, grout, hire, hose, king, kitchen, moved, natural, problem, removal, remove, stone, things, thinking, tiles, urge 4 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 24
    • Views: 786
    morphy
    1 Week Ago Go to last post

  3. snow joke

    Started by bonnerston, 04-02-2012
    bad, bag, carpe, carpet, cold, days, fun, grip, grit, house, joke, make, salt, snow, spray, ticket, today, trick, trouble, true, van, year
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 273
    tedmaced
    1 Week Ago Go to last post

  4. Screed drying

    Started by dazlight, 27-03-2011
    3 Pages •
    1 2 3
    cracking, customer, customers, doors, dry, fit, fitting, good, heating, hours, idea, leave, leaving, left, open, pla, planks, post, room, screed, sta, time, warm, warmer, windows
    • Replies: 33
    • Views: 1,533
    1940
    1 Week Ago Go to last post

  5. low rad or storage heaters

    Started by PAULY10, 2 Weeks Ago
    awls, bar, bathroom, bit, carpe, carpet, cut, edge, fit, fitting, hands, heater, hot, join, lamina, laminate, measure, pull, radiator, red, rubber, takes, wall, window
    • Replies: 7
    • Views: 183
    swerve
    2 Weeks Ago Go to last post

  6. metal stairs?

    Started by pedro, 12-03-2012
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    big, carpe, cheap, finish, fit, fitted, flat, gel, guy, metal, morning, open, paint, picture, plywood, read, rents, rust, staircase, stairs, tiles, trouble, type, vinyl, wan
    • Replies: 15
    • Views: 471
    mellosoul
    05-04-2012 Go to last post

  7. Underfloor Heating Question

    Started by sdm197, 06-09-2010
    advice, afraid, cha, change, changing, effective, electric, fit, fitted, floorcovering, floors, handle, heating, hey, manual, question, quick, recommend, safe, set, speed, underfloor, underfloor heating, wan, warm
    • Replies: 5
    • Views: 439
    robinhood005
    02-04-2012 Go to last post

  8. Fixing floor profiles

    Started by tomfromfife, 21-06-2011
    acrylic, adhesive, bars, bond, cha, chan, channel, door, drill, floor, glue, heating, hot, make, pink, primer, pvc, quality, removed, screed, surface, underfloor, underfloor heating, wan, work
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 398
    robinhood005
    02-04-2012 Go to last post

  9. Can you put underfloor heating down on concrete floor once it has been screeded?

    Started by billy_111, 30-10-2011
    adhesive, concre, concrete, concrete floor, fell, floor, hard, heating, kitchen, late, lay, load, mat, needed, putting, room, stick, surface, thought, tiles, time, told, underfloor, underfloor heating, wan 1 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 8
    • Views: 459
    robinhood005
    02-04-2012 Go to last post

  10. door bars

    Started by neilwiz3, 02-03-2012
    bar, bars, boxes, buying, carpe, carpets, cover, covers, door, double, easy, eat, good, gripper, guys, heavy, idea, light, lot, normal, pile, pla, stock, thicker, £10
    • Replies: 13
    • Views: 340
    mellosoul
    04-03-2012 Go to last post

  11. Blackberry messenger flooring group

    Started by Persistent King, 21-02-2012
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    blackberry, cha, cool, cou, count, day, days, fitting, flooring, good, great, group, hav, idea, king, picking, pics, place, post, set, sort, thi, thinking, tips, work
    • Replies: 29
    • Views: 440
    gooner4life
    27-02-2012 Go to last post

  12. spacial awareness

    Started by sidnee, 17-03-2011
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    africa, aware, brand, cracking, day, driving, end, ice, job, leave, managers, nice, post, prevent, pull, round, similar, small, thi, thing, thought, van, wall, wooden, year
    • Replies: 20
    • Views: 531
    tedmaced
    23-02-2012 Go to last post

  13. our henry

    Started by bonnerston, 08-09-2011
    bag, bit, black, bought, brush, carpe, carpet, carpets, clea, cleaner, cleaning, dogs, end, fellow, filling, great, hole, makes, pull, short, tape, time, vacuum, vacuuming, years
    • Replies: 9
    • Views: 539
    tedmaced
    20-02-2012 Go to last post

  14. "Leave the door on please"

    Started by Bobo, 18-01-2012
    chinese, coffee, couple, curry, customers, cut, door, doors, drink, great, house, indian, leave, lunch, mate, oops, opened, ready, removed, rice, takeaway, time, today, van
    • Replies: 10
    • Views: 482
    mellosoul
    20-02-2012 Go to last post

  15. Stubborn silicone/mastic

    Started by gooner4life, 25-01-2012
    bathroom, coming, damaging, fit, fitting, floor, gloss, silicone, skirtings, stubborn
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 249
    gooner4life
    25-01-2012 Go to last post

  16. Spare fuses.

    Started by mellosoul, 22-01-2012
    buy, dodgy, fuses, gel, god, hey, mates, remember, spare, time, tool, wat, wire
    • Replies: 12
    • Views: 221
    tedmaced
    23-01-2012 Go to last post

  17. Fuecards

    Started by pf flooring, 02-07-2011
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    applying, cards, company, day, days, direct, great, house, ice, nice, ppl, restricted, saving, specific, spend, sta, stations, thi, thing, time, types, wan, week, works, worth
    • Replies: 17
    • Views: 1,064
    Freeley
    12-12-2011 Go to last post

  18. A very presentable TIP.

    Started by mellosoul, 02-12-2011
    business, cards, carpe, carpet, carpetfitter, client, customer, customers, estima, fit, fitter, flooring, great, hey, iam, idea, job, lamina, laminate, solid, specific, thought, tip, type, wood
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 414
    james5159
    02-12-2011 Go to last post

  19. Top tip of the day

    Started by dazlight, 28-07-2011
    bad, bit, buy, cha, change, cost, day, dpm, everytime, gon, gonna, head, late, mat, matter, mix, oops, reason, straight, thi, time, tip, week, work, year
    • Replies: 10
    • Views: 717
    warsha
    25-11-2011 Go to last post

  20. carpet pile

    Started by tipex, 23-11-2011
    backside, carpe, carpet, doctor, fit, flat, inches, love, mate, pai, pain, paper, piece, pile, sick, taught, tedmaced, time, tipex, worked, years
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 343
    mellosoul
    24-11-2011 Go to last post

  21. scotia

    Started by bonnerston, 21-11-2011
    finish, hot, matching, piece, round, scotia, sta, stick, super, water
    • Replies: 5
    • Views: 248
    bonnerston
    24-11-2011 Go to last post

  22. Kitchen worktop end panel.

    Started by mellosoul, 12-11-2011
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    case, clear, coming, correctly, courses, crucial, customers, cut, cutting, end, fit, flooring, gel, kitchen, lay, love, machine, pla, post, posts, required, trade, vinyl, wan, work
    • Replies: 25
    • Views: 594
    Bobo
    14-11-2011 Go to last post

  23. Lightbulb Head Torch

    Started by aardvark101, 08-11-2011
    bought, corners, customer, dark, dose, fit, gold, good, great, head, hey, light, machine, round, rust, shiny, solid, sun, thi, thing, things, time, vinyl, washing, working
    • Replies: 7
    • Views: 229
    tipex
    10-11-2011 Go to last post

  24. AA or A2B.

    Started by mellosoul, 03-11-2011
    broken, case, covered, daughter, daughters, day, idea, laugh, lock, lost, pictures, similar, thread, time, told, wife
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 433
    mellosoul
    03-11-2011 Go to last post

  25. Tip for trimming doors

    Started by buster, 02-09-2011
    boxes, clea, clean, cut, door, doors, end, flexible, good, ice, leaving, nice, pai, pain, pla, problem, straight, takes, tape, thing, thought, time, tip, trim, wan
    • Replies: 13
    • Views: 691
    buster
    28-10-2011 Go to last post

  26. Smile Been too lazy to clean your trowel..

    Started by jimlfitit, 18-10-2011
    blades, brush, burn, clea, clean, cleaned, cleans, customers, dear, edges, glue, guy, lazy, light, make, petrol, problem, stick, treat, trowel, washing, water, wet, whilst, wire
    • Replies: 11
    • Views: 381
    dazlight
    28-10-2011 Go to last post

  27. Let the glue get some grab

    Started by pf flooring, 12-05-2011
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    adhesive, adhesives, black, bubbles, dry, fit, flooring, gel, generally, glue, guy, heard, hose, jobs, lay, open, push, stick, thought, time, vinyl, vinyls, wet, works, years
    • Replies: 20
    • Views: 913
    tipex
    27-10-2011 Go to last post

  28. Free screed bucket !

    Started by aardvark101, 06-10-2011
    bags, cold, curry, fancy, feel, free, house, local, screed, size, wash, years
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 235
    bonnerston
    06-10-2011 Go to last post

  29. loop repairs

    Started by bonnerston, 30-09-2011
    bored, cut, day, feel, glue, good, hands, jokes, learn, line, mate, patch, pile, place, pulled, repair, repairs, shop, showing, techniques, thi, thought, time, tomorrow 1 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 12
    • Views: 326
    grace2010
    03-10-2011 Go to last post

  30. DPMs

    Started by swerve, 21-09-2011
    car, carpe, carpet, club, door, dpm, fit, fitting, flooring, guys, hey, ideas, picking, problem, recently, remember, rubber, slightly, started, suggest, thinking, tiles
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 240
    swerve
    22-09-2011 Go to last post

  31. Siga Rapid DPM

    Started by aardvark101, 21-09-2011
    bostik, called, creom, dpm, end, good, half, hour, laybond, make, product, similar, suggest, supplier, thi, thing, tidy, wood, work, years, yesterday
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 168
    dazlight
    22-09-2011 Go to last post

  32. staple blockage

    Started by markyw, 04-09-2011
    assume, bought, career, case, fun, funny, good, handle, mate, open, pull, push, red, silicone, size, spray, staple, stapler, staples, thought, tips, track, wrong, year, years
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 281
    tedmaced
    04-09-2011 Go to last post

  33. Which Screed to use?.

    Started by mellosoul, 13-08-2011
    bag, bear, big, business, downstairs, fairly, flooring, fur, good, job, karndean, laid, lit, mate, mind, problem, rid, sanded, screed, stairs, subfloor, tests, thi, told, wrong
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 581
    doidgey
    23-08-2011 Go to last post

  34. Ceramic tiles

    Started by swerve, 28-07-2011
    bathroom, ceramic, ceramic tile, customer, floor, high, house, king, lot, post, primer, quality, screed, sheet, small, solid, stop, thi, thinking, tile, tiles, vinyl, wan, wanting, water
    • Replies: 7
    • Views: 326
    carpetfingers
    29-07-2011 Go to last post

  35. stone me

    Started by bonnerston, 23-07-2011
    door, good, makes, party, pla, sanding, stone, tool, wrong 1 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 5
    • Views: 313
    carpetson
    28-07-2011 Go to last post

  36. Rollers for epoxy

    Started by carpetfingers, 16-07-2011
    1st, ball, big, buy, emulsion, epoxy, fine, finish, foam, hey, job, large, normal, pai, pain, paint, painting, pile, shop, sick, sort, trade, treat, wide
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 278
    dazlight
    17-07-2011 Go to last post

  37. Would welcome some advice

    Started by ccf254, 15-07-2011
    adhesive, advice, background, bit, book, commercial, contract, day, domestic, fit, flat, forum, heat, job, lay, lit, make, polysafe, prep, pretty, stuff, tips, vinyl, week, work
    • Replies: 5
    • Views: 301
    Floorcraft
    16-07-2011 Go to last post

  38. cleaning spiker roller

    Started by coolevilangel, 11-07-2011
    adhesive, big, bit, bought, clea, clean, cleaned, cleaning, gel, good, leave, liquid, mixing, rip, roller, screed, similar, spare, tips, trowel, washing, water, wide
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 331
    Persistent King
    11-07-2011 Go to last post

  39. any tips for a floating screed

    Started by JKPLATT, 06-07-2011
    area, big, foot, good, guys, heating, improve, insulation, laid, max, min, minimum, news, problem, products, screed, small, solution, thi, tile, tips, underfloor, underfloor heating, weeks
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 293
    JKPLATT
    06-07-2011 Go to last post

  40. Footwear!!

    Started by Lambchop, 22-01-2010
    2 Pages •
    1 2
    busy, cheap, color, felt, flat, footwear, gel, hey, high, ies, long, make, marking, means, pick, read, red, screed, sell, shoe, slippers, soft, sole, trouble, wear 1 Attachment(s)
    • Replies: 29
    • Views: 4,625
    tipex
    01-07-2011 Go to last post
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