Tiling News Tiling news, messages and updates to keep you informed of all the latest developments from within the tile industry. Wed, 22 May 2013 10:25:12 +0000 Wed, 22 May 2013 10:25:12 +0000 Tiling Forum - unbiased tilers forums http://www.tilingforum.co.uk/forums/tiling-news.12/ Forum Upgrade ]]> Mon, 01 Apr 2013 08:38:41 +0000 http://www.tilingforum.co.uk/threads/forum-upgrade.3140/ http://www.tilingforum.co.uk/threads/forum-upgrade.3140/ DavidCarr DavidCarr 26 Advertising On The Forum Sat, 16 Mar 2013 22:07:43 +0000 http://www.tilingforum.co.uk/threads/advertising-on-the-forum.3010/ http://www.tilingforum.co.uk/threads/advertising-on-the-forum.3010/ DavidCarr DavidCarr 1 Great British Property Scandal A week or so ago i answered to a tweet from TV Designer George Clarke requested trades people in and around the Mansfield (Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire border) for help in bringing Empty Homes back into use training ex military boys who desperately needed help.

This is part of a long running campaign spear headed by George Clarke, who was appointed as the independent empty homes adviser to the Government


I was called by the company behind the transformation of these 7 terraced houses in Mansfield, House 2 Homes who asked what Tile Town could do to help.]]> Tue, 26 Feb 2013 19:45:28 +0000 http://www.tilingforum.co.uk/threads/great-british-property-scandal.1469/ http://www.tilingforum.co.uk/threads/great-british-property-scandal.1469/ Lee@TileTown Lee@TileTown 48 Connect To Your Twitter & Facebook Accounts own twitter account and facebook page.

At the bottom of each new thread you start you will see two icons representing twitter and Facebook. Initially they will be greyed out like the image below.
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Here is how you link your accounts and start to rule the world :D

Firstly click on either of the grey buttons and you'll be taken to the following screen.
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As you'll see there are two options, 'link with twitter' and 'link with facebook'. Click on these to connect your accounts with Tiling Forum. You'll see a page similar to this.

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You'll now be able to send the latest thread you created and your last status update through to your own accounts on these social networks.

Notes
Facebook by default, will connect you to the account your normally use on the facebook site, if you have a facebook page, you will need to switch to using that on the Facebook page.]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 10:31:20 +0000 http://www.tilingforum.co.uk/threads/connect-to-your-twitter-facebook-accounts.2719/ http://www.tilingforum.co.uk/threads/connect-to-your-twitter-facebook-accounts.2719/ DavidCarr DavidCarr 1 New Spam Prevention Tools Thu, 24 Jan 2013 08:11:38 +0000 http://www.tilingforum.co.uk/threads/new-spam-prevention-tools.2069/ http://www.tilingforum.co.uk/threads/new-spam-prevention-tools.2069/ DavidCarr DavidCarr 7 Tapatalk Update
This weekend, I've made some major updates to the forum and a few of the add ons, including Tapatalk. Due to some of the changes to Tapatalk, your stored account data in the app may not work, to solve this problem.

iPad TapaTalk HD Instructions
  1. Open tapatalk app on your device
  2. Go to your dashboard
  3. Select network
  4. Select search and enter tiling
  5. Select our Tiling Forum
iPhone TapaTalk Instructions
  1. Select Network from bottom of screen
  2. Select Education & Profession
  3. Select Local Business
  4. Select Tiling Forum
Hey presto the new changes should be transferred to your app, you may need to log in again.]]> Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:21:42 +0000 http://www.tilingforum.co.uk/threads/tapatalk-update.1658/ http://www.tilingforum.co.uk/threads/tapatalk-update.1658/ DavidCarr DavidCarr 35 New Image Upload Limits ]]> Sun, 11 Nov 2012 13:42:41 +0000 http://www.tilingforum.co.uk/threads/new-image-upload-limits.1853/ http://www.tilingforum.co.uk/threads/new-image-upload-limits.1853/ DavidCarr DavidCarr 12 Internet Robots On The Forum
These spiders are essentially crawling through the site gathering information and storing what it feels are good results to provide the users of google, yahoo, bing search etc.

What does this all mean?

It means your posted advice and guidance is generating you free marketing and exposure for your business and the services you offer. This could lead to business for you if potential customers were to find posts you've made and are impressed with your knowledge and professionalism, even more so if they can tie in photos of your work.

So don't forget to strut your professional advice where possible and fill in your business details in your profile under 'personal details']]> Tue, 23 Oct 2012 15:33:36 +0000 http://www.tilingforum.co.uk/threads/internet-robots-on-the-forum.250/ http://www.tilingforum.co.uk/threads/internet-robots-on-the-forum.250/ DavidCarr DavidCarr 21 Forum Traffic Increasing Week On Week Hence why I've not been on much lately.

Thank you all to all the members who have been signing in, posting and entering into the friendly banter on here, you're keeping things buzzing!

We are due to reveal a few new features in the new few weeks, only delayed due to me being very busy with work at the moment.

Anyway, many thanks for your time on our forum and your dedication to your trade!]]> Wed, 26 Sep 2012 07:17:33 +0000 http://www.tilingforum.co.uk/threads/forum-traffic-increasing-week-on-week.1563/ http://www.tilingforum.co.uk/threads/forum-traffic-increasing-week-on-week.1563/ DavidCarr DavidCarr 15 Welcome To Lee, Ray & Gary's Testing Lab
So this is a little thank you for all their hard work, Lee, Ray & Gary's Testing Lab]]> Tue, 25 Sep 2012 21:48:57 +0000 http://www.tilingforum.co.uk/threads/welcome-to-lee-ray-garys-testing-lab.1622/ http://www.tilingforum.co.uk/threads/welcome-to-lee-ray-garys-testing-lab.1622/ DavidCarr DavidCarr 9 Moving To New Server Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:15:17 +0000 http://www.tilingforum.co.uk/threads/moving-to-new-server.1050/ http://www.tilingforum.co.uk/threads/moving-to-new-server.1050/ DavidCarr DavidCarr 59 Tiling Forum Monthly Competiton, Voting Now Open! So here we are. :) Voting is now open! Please read the following competition rules:

The candidates shown are the top posters of this months.

Please vote for your favourite forum contributor/s, up to three votes for three different candidates allowed per person, i.e. one vote each for up to three chosen candidates.

You cannot vote for yourself

This poll will be open for one week, Please see time and date given.

All members who are/were members on May 30th 2012 are eligible to vote.

To vote for more than one person, just click on all the names chosen first and then okay it after you're done.

Anyone voting for more than three people or for himself will be disqualified.

Unfortunately the candidates outside the UK cannot receive the prizes but can choose to donate them to members of their choice.

There will be a winner and two runner-ups. :) :) :)

Good luck to all!

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JOE LOUGHRAN, Hillhead Tiling,
the worthy winner at 1st place
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ANDREW O'SULLIVAN, of AOS Tiling, 2nd runner up

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JAY LYND, Jay from Tasmania no less!, 3rd runner up.
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Well done, and thanks for your input :) :) :)

For all results please see: http://tilingforum.co.uk/threads/tiling-forum-monthly-competiton-voting-now-open.1032/page-5]]> Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:03:25 +0000 http://www.tilingforum.co.uk/threads/the-may-2012-tiling-forum-competition-winners-are.1078/ http://www.tilingforum.co.uk/threads/the-may-2012-tiling-forum-competition-winners-are.1078/ MosaicGirl MosaicGirl 8 Tiling Forum Competition
Just wanted to say that I'm really happy with the effort that has been put into May's competition. And that personally I'm really quite glad a few points have been raised about the competition, whilst I firmly believe it has been conducted as fairly as possible given the competition criteria, there is always room for improvement. The comments have just given me a well needed kick up the behind to push harder to create an even better tiling forum competition next time.

So as starting point and first real attempt, I would consider this competition not bad at over a grands worth of prizes, maybe it's time to up the ante a little? Time to get a little more adventurous?

So moving on, what would you all like to see in future competitions?]]> Sat, 09 Jun 2012 18:27:07 +0000 http://www.tilingforum.co.uk/threads/tiling-forum-competition.1074/ http://www.tilingforum.co.uk/threads/tiling-forum-competition.1074/ DavidCarr DavidCarr 36 Photo Albums Now Available
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I think this will be a great way to show of your tiling prowess :)]]> Thu, 31 May 2012 21:09:36 +0000 http://www.tilingforum.co.uk/threads/photo-albums-now-available.473/ http://www.tilingforum.co.uk/threads/photo-albums-now-available.473/ DavidCarr DavidCarr 19 Tiling Forum Monthly Competition Prizes May 2012 ]]> Wed, 30 May 2012 18:46:02 +0000 http://www.tilingforum.co.uk/threads/tiling-forum-monthly-competition-prizes-may-2012.564/ http://www.tilingforum.co.uk/threads/tiling-forum-monthly-competition-prizes-may-2012.564/ DavidCarr DavidCarr 121 Tiling Forum now TapaTalk enabled
See we're getting all hi tech at last ;)]]> Thu, 24 May 2012 10:05:40 +0000 http://www.tilingforum.co.uk/threads/tiling-forum-now-tapatalk-enabled.7/ http://www.tilingforum.co.uk/threads/tiling-forum-now-tapatalk-enabled.7/ DavidCarr DavidCarr 48 Three Tickets To The Tta Awards Up For Grabs

The prestigious event will honour the best of the wall and floor tile industry, and celebrate excellence throughout the past year.

The dinner will feature the presentation of the 2012 Tile Association Awards, and everybody who is anybody in our industry will be there. It is a chance to rub shoulders with the best in the industry, and as always the event promises to be an exhilarating night of excitement you won’t forget. Whether you win big on the night or not, you’ll experience the glitz and glamour of Las Vegas and leave feeling like a millionaire!
Plus, HardieBack have included complimentary drinks and dinner, sounds like it will be a great evening.

This years TTA awards are being held at the Birmingham Hilton Metropole which boasts both superb decor, service and entertainment.

If you want to be one of the three who join myself at this black tie event with HardieBacker, please PM to let me know why you'd like to go. The three winners will be then be chosen at random.]]> Thu, 10 May 2012 18:06:20 +0000 http://www.tilingforum.co.uk/threads/three-tickets-to-the-tta-awards-up-for-grabs.498/ http://www.tilingforum.co.uk/threads/three-tickets-to-the-tta-awards-up-for-grabs.498/ DavidCarr DavidCarr 46 New Design For The Tiling Forum
Hopefully this will stop/reduce the confusion some members have had when they've found the 'clone' of this forum.

The things you have to do eh?]]> Fri, 04 May 2012 14:31:58 +0000 http://www.tilingforum.co.uk/threads/new-design-for-the-tiling-forum.658/ http://www.tilingforum.co.uk/threads/new-design-for-the-tiling-forum.658/ DavidCarr DavidCarr 4 23000 Pages views per day ]]> Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:02:32 +0000 http://www.tilingforum.co.uk/threads/23000-pages-views-per-day.48/ http://www.tilingforum.co.uk/threads/23000-pages-views-per-day.48/ DavidCarr DavidCarr 28 Major Changes: Phases Two
Phase two however is where we put the meat on the bones by filling the forum full of unique content that you will not find on other forums. We have support from most of the major tiling product brands already, many more to follow once their commitments are completed elsewhere.

So far we've created dedicated forums for:

BAL, PCI, TileMaster, Weber

All of these are pre-populated with product data and information, the aim is to create a central information hub, a quick reference guide if you like.

We also have a dedicated forum for Sigma in the works, which I'm sure you'll be interested in using :)

As you'll already have seen we now have photo albums available, this I believe will be a great source of business exposure for you all as the major search engines have already started to crawl through the images. Top Tip: Remember to put a description in for your images.

And finally, I just want to thank you all for your contributions to the forum so far, you've made this a friendly, education, inviting and inspirational place to talk about tile, for that I'm eternally grateful. We have plenty of things still up our sleeves so please stick around, things are about to get busier and better than ever before :)]]> Tue, 24 Apr 2012 05:01:49 +0000 http://www.tilingforum.co.uk/threads/major-changes-phases-two.475/ http://www.tilingforum.co.uk/threads/major-changes-phases-two.475/ DavidCarr DavidCarr 10 Major Changes: Phase one
It may seem like a pain, but being a completely new forum, you will need to reregister your account to start posting, it'll only take a minute ;)

Look forward to reading your posts.]]> Sun, 08 Apr 2012 19:23:06 +0000 http://www.tilingforum.co.uk/threads/major-changes-phase-one.1/ http://www.tilingforum.co.uk/threads/major-changes-phase-one.1/ DavidCarr DavidCarr 18 General Chat Is Getting Bigger.. [IMG]]]> Sun, 08 Apr 2012 18:51:36 +0000 http://www.tilingforum.co.uk/threads/general-chat-is-getting-bigger.346/ http://www.tilingforum.co.uk/threads/general-chat-is-getting-bigger.346/ MosaicGirl MosaicGirl 2 General Chat Is Getting Bigger.. [IMG]]]> Sun, 08 Apr 2012 18:51:36 +0000 http://www.tilingforum.co.uk/threads/general-chat-is-getting-bigger.346/ http://www.tilingforum.co.uk/threads/general-chat-is-getting-bigger.346/ MosaicGirl MosaicGirl 2