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[OT - Very] Tiles


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  • Subject: [OT - Very] Tiles
  • From: "Mark Pollock" <pollocmc@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 15:20:11 -0000
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Hi, (this is a long winded rant - not about HA so skip if you're not
in friday afternoon mode at work)

Just before any of you pop off to homebase/b&q over the weekend can I
give some advice. Be very carefuly if you use any of the
"flexible"
ceramic floor tile adhesives. I've just spent the past 2 weeks (and am
still at it), burnt out the motor of one SDS Hammer Drill (which I
sheepishly got replaced - "But I only ran it for 10 minutes
honest")
and now have large callouses(sp?) on my hands a navvy would be proud
of. I've also had to buy an angle grinder to regrind the chisels every
four tiles.

In my tilers wisdom he suggested that if I used this adhesive (I think
it was called flexbond) then I wouldn't have to sheet the floor. Pah.
I reckon it took at most six months before the first tile cracked.

I reckon if NASA had found out about this stuff, they wouldn't have
any problems keeping the tiles on the shuttle.

Anyway nothing to do with HA other than I've had no time to do
anything. I just needed to share my frustration with someone. There I
feel all calm now.

Mark P.



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