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sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42219
Location: North Devon

Posted: Sun Oct 30, 05 7:55 pm Post subject: 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.

Nanny

Joined: 17 Feb 2005
Posts: 4520
Location: carms in wales

Posted: Sun Oct 30, 05 7:59 pm Post subject:
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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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 25795
Location: Jumping on the bandwagon of opportunism

Posted: Sun Oct 30, 05 8:02 pm Post subject:
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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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Sun Oct 30, 05 8:06 pm Post subject:
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

Joined: 17 Feb 2005
Posts: 4520
Location: carms in wales

Posted: Sun Oct 30, 05 8:09 pm Post subject:
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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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Sun Oct 30, 05 8:19 pm Post subject:
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

Joined: 02 Dec 2004
Posts: 5888
Location: Suffolk

Posted: Sun Oct 30, 05 10:11 pm Post subject:
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

Joined: 08 Mar 2005
Posts: 568
Location: Nottingham

Posted: Sun Oct 30, 05 10:40 pm Post subject:
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

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Mon Oct 31, 05 12:06 pm Post subject:

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

Joined: 02 Dec 2004
Posts: 5888
Location: Suffolk

Posted: Mon Oct 31, 05 6:43 pm Post subject:

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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