TTA Awards 2015 Photo Gallery

Inspire yourself with Victorian style tiles. Dorchester Black & Dover White. https://www.originalstyle.com/victorian-floor-tiles/patterns/dorchester/ They say that your home is your castle – this may have been true for Queen Victoria but most of us live in houses that are rather more modest! Many British homes built from around 1860 (when these types of floors became popular…

Winner: Paddy Plunkett of P Plunkett Tiling Contractors Left to right; Ian Kershaw, TTA Chairman and Paddy Plunkett Paddy Plunkett’s career in the tiling industry began when he was 15 years’ old, with an apprenticeship at Commercial Marble and Tile. He quickly showed his potential and was nominated to represent the North of England in…

Good news! You have another fortnight to get your entry in for this year’s TTA Awards. We have already seen a good number of high calibre entries being submitted, but in order to give everybody time to get their entries in, the deadline is being extended to 14 February. All 16 Award categories are open…

Who said mosaics have to be square?  From the honeycomb of bee’s to Ireland’s Giant’s Causeway, hexagonal patterns are prevalent in nature and if you are looking to create a statement floor or wall, hexagonal tiles really could be the answer. Hexagonal tiles began to appear in a variety of Italian and Spanish factories 1-2 years ago…

The Tile Association is advising fixers who hold the Level 3 Heritage CSCS card through grandfather rights to make sure they renew their card. Tilers who let their card expire will face a much longer and potentially more costly process to get a new one than if they simply renew it. With more and more…

How many tiles should I order? Before this question can be answered, it is necessary to: Know the area of the surface to be tiled Establish the tiling technique and pattern (with closed joints i.e. with the edges of the tiles touching, or with joints of a few millimetres between tiles, with continuous or not…