Building bolder career paths

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

DR WORK

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?

Using different types of tile mortar

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

Hardware industry customer satisfaction results reveal close race

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Choose your tile type

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.

Artist Searching For His Master Tilers

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

Tilers Offer Supply And Fix Package

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.

Expertise In Trades Team

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 Down-to-earth Dame

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