feeds from tilers.com.au http://tilers.com.au/rss/ en-au http://tilers.com.au/rss/ http://tilers.com.au/static/campfire/layouts/images/omg-logo-small.png http://www.tilers.com.au/tilers-articles/2011/3/29/building-bolder-career-paths/ Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST news An innovative program opens a route to tertiary study. By Jewel Topsfield. SERENDIPITOUSLY, the day Michael Ceccomancini decided to drop out of school was also the day his careers teacher at St Joseph's College in North Melbourne received an email that would change the course of his life.The message said the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology was running a pilot program, offering students interested in building the option of starting a TAFE course while in year 11.Students would complete a ...

An innovative program opens a route to tertiary study. By Jewel Topsfield.

http://www.tilers.com.au/tilers-articles/2010/11/27/dr-work/ Sat, 27 Nov 2010 00:00:00 EST news Q: My son is a floor tiler who wants to work in surface mining, particularly in Western Australia. What advice can you offer him? Is it possible to find work in the mines based on the qualifications he already has?A: The fact that your son has a trade background can be handy, although it is obviously not a trade directly related to the mining industry.A quick search on the internet using mining as a key search word will provide you with many mining-related training and employment companies aroun ...

Q: My son is a floor tiler who wants to work in surface mining, particularly in Western Australia. What advice can you offer him? Is it possible to find work in the mines based on the qualifications he already has?

http://www.tilers.com.au/tilers-articles/using-different-types-of-tile-mortar/ Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST Using different types of tile mortar Tilers and home renovators have to consider the range of mortar products available to them and let the type of tiling job decide which product to use Whether you are a professional tiler or a home renovator, the job of tiling will usually arise along with the question: which mortar product should I use? There are many mortar tiling produc ...

Tilers and home renovators have to consider the range of mortar products avail ...

http://www.tilers.com.au/tilers-articles/2010/1/14/hardware-industry-customer-satisfaction-results-reveal-close-race/ Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST news It seems the race to dominate the hardware industry is a close one at that after recent research evaluating the customer satisfaction levels for all the major hardware stores returned positive, and fairly even results. The most recent Roy Morgan Retail Satisfaction Report for the 12 months to September 2009 reveals an average level of 85.9 per cent satisfaction in the hardware stores category, which places hardware stores only slightly below the average rating provided for all retaile ...

Latest research gives hardware stores high levels of customer satisfaction

http://www.tilers.com.au/tilers-articles/2009/8/2/choose-your-tile-type/ Sun, 02 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EST news If you want to use tiles to use on your floor and walls then you might like to know more about what type of tiles are best suited for your space.You can get tiles in a range of different materials such as stone, porcelain, ceramic, glass and slate. Each material works in a different way so depending on the purpose of your space will help determine what tile is best to use.Porcelain tilesPorcelain tiles are made dust pressing porcelain clays to pr ...

If you want to use tiles to use on your floor and walls then you might like to know more about what type of tiles are best suited for your space.

http://www.tilers.com.au/tilers-articles/2002/6/14/artist-searching-for-his-master-tilers/ Fri, 14 Jun 2002 00:00:00 EST news The search is on for the expert Italian tilers who installed Vladimir Tichy murals in the Illawarra in the 1970s. Mr Tichy doesn't know if the tilers who worked with him on murals at St Paul's, Albion Park and Illawarra County Council are still alive. But if they are he would love to meet them again, or make contact with their families. ``They were masters," Mr Tichy said. The artist said members of the Illawarra's Italian community brought great skills with ...

The search is on for the expert Italian tilers who installed Vladimir Tichy murals in the Illawarra in the 1970s.

http://www.tilers.com.au/tilers-articles/1999/10/14/tilers-offer-supply-and-fix-package/ Thu, 14 Oct 1999 00:00:00 EST news With more than 15 years tiling experience between them, Troy Mountford and David Lyons are in a good position to know what their customers want. Now working in partnership and completing work in the Shoalhaven and Illawarra areas, the two have branched into supplying as well as fixing tiles. ``Usually a tiler does just the tiling component of a job which means the client has to shop around to find the tiles he or she wants," Troy said. ``That is time-consuming and c ...

With more than 15 years tiling experience between them, Troy Mountford and David Lyons are in a good position to know what their customers want. Now working in partnership and completing work in the Shoalhaven and Illawarra areas, the two have branched into supplying as well as fixing tiles.

http://www.tilers.com.au/tilers-articles/1997/9/10/expertise-in-trades-team/ Wed, 10 Sep 1997 00:00:00 EST news When builder Paul Murphy takes on a job his client may be assured that he will take care of the whole project. "I work on all the jobs myself and have a team of other tradesmen - plumbers, electricians, gyprockers, roof tilers and so on - to call on when we are at those particular stages of the building process," he said. A builder in the Illawarra for five years, Mr Murphy ...

When builder Paul Murphy takes on a job his client may be assured that he will take care of the whole project. "I work on all the jobs myself and have a team of other tradesmen - plumbers, electricians, gyprockers, roof tilers and so on - to call on when we are at those particular stages of

http://www.tilers.com.au/tilers-articles/1993/1/24/the-downtoearth-dame/ Sun, 24 Jan 1993 00:00:00 EST news FEW divas would go to the opening of a loo. Dame Kiri Te Kanawa had no reservations when she recently accepted an invitation from an old friend to declare open his new bathroom. And so it was that the world's most famous soprano mixed easily with the tilers, carpenters and painters who had built Max Cryer's bathroom in Auckland. ``It was just a case of one professional mixing with others," says Mr Cryer, a broadcaster and a friend of Dame Kiri's for more than three decades. ``I t ...

FEW divas would go to the opening of a loo. Dame Kiri Te Kanawa had no reservations when she recently accepted an invitation from an old friend to declare open his new bathroom. And so it was that the world's most famous soprano mixed easily with the tilers, carpenters and painters who had built Max