sean
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Measure twice...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.
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Nanny
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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..................
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Treacodactyl
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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.
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sean
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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.
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Nanny
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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
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sean
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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.
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nettie
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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 
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hils
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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
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cab
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| 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.
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nettie
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| 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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