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sean
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 30, 05 7:55 pm    Post subject: Measure twice... Reply with quote
    

and cut once. That's about it really. Brought home today by running out of one of the sorts of tiles we'd bought. So I can't finish the kitchen until next week. Bother.

Nanny



Joined: 17 Feb 2005
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 30, 05 7:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

don't you just hate it when that happens?

been there...i just hope you can get the tiles on monday when you look for them

i couldn't and we had to make a quick design change

it worked but it was still a poop

bon chance mon ami

the battle of B & Q is about to begin..................

Treacodactyl
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 30, 05 8:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

It is worth asking if you can return unused boxes and buying a spare box.

One thing that surprised me when I bought a nearly new house several years ago was the fact that there was a range of spare tiles in one of the cupboards, rather thoughtful I thought.

sean
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 30, 05 8:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

It's just a sheet of little mosaic tiles which I'm short of. They (Topps Tiles) don't hold them in stock, so they won't be here until next weekend now. Incidentally they will buy back any unused tiles, they don't even need to be in full boxes.

Nanny



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PostPosted: Sun Oct 30, 05 8:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

we looked at topps tiles but i thought they were expensive frankly

some good patterns but a fair amount of dosh i thought

B&Q it was in the end

unfortunately we only calculated for so many breakages and we had a couple too many

sean
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 30, 05 8:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Depends what you're after I guess. And most of these chains do local pricing which complicates the comparisons. We mainly wanted 15cm plain white tiles which were roughly half the price in Topps compared with B&Q.

nettie



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PostPosted: Sun Oct 30, 05 10:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Hmmm Sean it sounds like you've had a similar weekend to me....I went to stain a new pine ikea cabinet the same colour as I'd stained the rest of the wood in the lounge, only to run out of stain half way through and find it's since been discontinued

hils



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PostPosted: Sun Oct 30, 05 10:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Nettie if you have a Wilkos near you grab one of their colour charts for stain. They're printed on acetate type stuff (see thro plastic) and you just move the chart over the the thing you need to stain to find exactly which one to use. They might have a very similar one to yours? H

cab



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PostPosted: Mon Oct 31, 05 12:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Treacodactyl wrote:

One thing that surprised me when I bought a nearly new house several years ago was the fact that there was a range of spare tiles in one of the cupboards, rather thoughtful I thought.


After waiting a week and a half for four and a quarter inch qhite tiles to be delivered to a local tile shop, we replaced some cracked tiles in the bathroom. A month later we found a whole box of them in the back of the shed.

nettie



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PostPosted: Mon Oct 31, 05 6:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

hils wrote:
Nettie if you have a Wilkos near you grab one of their colour charts for stain. They're printed on acetate type stuff (see thro plastic) and you just move the chart over the the thing you need to stain to find exactly which one to use. They might have a very similar one to yours? H


Thanks Hils

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