Self Adhesive Vinyl Floor Tiles

Advantages: Minimal Fuss, Cheap and Look Effective
Disadvantages: Cutting upto walls and doors

...I recently bought some Self Adhesive vinyl tiles for my elderley neighbour, to freshen up her kitchen, as she wanted a change on a limited budget. She does not have much money, so i gave her the idea of just sticking down self stick vinyl tiles on top of her existing vinyl (it has been down 20 years, very clean still but a dodgy terracotta swirly design and makes the room look dingy). I recently purchased some luxury vinyl tiles for my home which i wrote a review about on ciao (Karndean Flooring) so i knew "vinyl tiles" were a great product, but as my elderley neighbour lived on her own and was not too bothered about interior design i set about on my mission to find a cheap self adhesive vinyl tile i could lay for her with minimul fuss and expense. As i bought my vinyl tiles from www.flooring.uk.com, i knew they sold self adhesive...

denise_Farnham 24.01.2008 · Read review
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Review of Homebase Vinyl Tiles for Kitchens/Bathrooms

Westco vinyl floor tiles.

Advantages: Good finish, cheap yet effective.
Disadvantages: could be slippery

...I am thoroughly impressed with the Westco flooring that my husband and I spent laying on Saturday afternoon in our bathroom. It was relatively inexpensive. £5.29 for a pack of six tiles in homebase. We only needed four packs and as the dozy homebase cashier couldn't count to four we got ours at the brilliant price of£15.87! We chose a fetching marble effect blue tile. It was easy to cut - it said use a stanley knife but our sharp kitchen scissors seemed to do the trick. A lot safer to use as my husband has had battles with stanley knives and lost in the past... but that's a different story! It was a little tricky to work out the jagged edges around the skirting near the door and the nightmare curve around the bottom of the loo, but a lager later and a spare tile or too in the bin and the job was complete...

Sukey113 18.03.2002 · Read review
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Review of Homebase DIY Flooring

Piles of Tiles with Smiles

Advantages: Range, Price, Service
Disadvantages: Poor range of adhesives

...grow. It was a big struggle at this stage because tiles weren't as fashionable as they are now and the company had limited borrowing. It wasn't until the late nineties until Topps Tiles really began to flourish nationwide, by 1999 they had 98 stores and now in 2003 they have 157. By 2005 they hope to have 200 in Britain and even a few in mainland Europe. They have literally took off in the last few years, partly because tiles are now highly fashionable, partly because they included laminate wood flooring into their range and partly because they stood in a strong position enabling them to have huge buying power. Topps Tiles are not just the best and cheapest tiling and flooring company in the land, they are the only one offering the service nationally! They now have a turnover of 40 million, employ 900 staff and their profits are growing...

WormThatTurned 29.09.2003 · Read review
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Self Adhesive Vinyl Tiles from www.flooring.uk.com

Advantages: quick easy purchase fast delivery great product
Disadvantages: havnt got enough rooms to put them in

...Thanks to Denises review, i just bought my Self Adhesive Vinyl tiles at www.flooring.uk.com. The £6.98 per pack had been reduced to £4.50 per pack which includes VAT and delivery is Free, for a beautiful stone coloured design i went for. Sorry Denise, they have a sale on now. For my room of 6' x 10' it cost me £49.50 and i fitted them with ease in my kitchen, recommend anyone to get them, a lot better than vinyl sheet as it doesnt leave any marks were the chairs are, and they look like a sandstone tile. So pleased with my kitchen now, i can mop the tiles easily too. www.flooring.uk.com was such an easy site to navigate round, once i worked out how many tiles i needed i added them to my cart and paid online, received the tiles next day about 10:00 in the morning. Fantastic service, internet is such a wonderful thing. Get on their...

Lesley_Hyatt333 09.05.2008 · Read review
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Review of Homebase Vinyl Tiles for Kitchens/Bathrooms

Let's Kill some Floor!

Advantages: An awsome game...
Disadvantages: So few...

...I have never been that serious a gamer. Only casually playing things like Age of Empires, Grand Theft Auto on the computer, and a few games on the Nintendo Wii. My friend, Jam, however, has always been rather heavily into his games, and always had a good number installed on his custom built PC. It wasn?t until I played this one game on his computer, that I got hooked. Killing Floor. It was an instant hit with me, and after a while, he brought me a copy (so he could play it against someone he knew). The Basics of the Game Killing Floor is an online, co-op horror survival, first person shooter game, which means that you control the character that is shooting ? typically viewing the two arms of the character. The aim of the game, is to kill specimens, which are different types of ?zombie?. ?set in the devastated cities...

obscuredbykep 21.07.2009 · Read review
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Easy lay tiles

Advantages: Easy to lay
Disadvantages: slippy

...With the loft conversion finally finished, it was time to do something with the bathroom floor. Since it's a bathroom, we didn't consider a carpet and began to look for floor tiles, these being my flooring of choice for bathrooms. However, whilst on a merry little jaunt round Homebase, we came upon these and decided that they would be a viable option, one of the main plus points being that they did feel slightly warmer than tiles, and certainly looked as though they would be easier to lay. **Price and availability** Depending on the tiles chosen, they cost about £5.99, for 6 tiles, these were cheaper than many of the tiles we had looked at, and involved no further purchases such as costly tile cutters. The tiles are available from homebase stores but are not sold online and are not even featured on the website...

danielalong 19.03.2006 · Read review
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Review of Homebase Vinyl Tiles for Kitchens/Bathrooms

* Fancy a night on the tiles? . .

Advantages: Very easy to use
Disadvantages: Not a lot.

...for a decent price. You will find most that large DIY stores offer competitive prices, but sometimes your local decorating shop will offer stuff like this at very low bargain basement prices. You will find just about anything available online, but of course this product is very heavy, therefore the cost of delivery is prohibitive so stay local. It is both an adhesive and a grout, making it economical as well as user friendly. I find this stuff very easy to use, it spreads well, and sticks even better. There is no need to use both tile adhesive and grout, just opt for the Mangers Ready Mixed All Purpose Tile Adhesive and Grout, it is specially formulated for both fixing and grouting ceramic wall tiles, to most interior wall surfaces, as well as cement rendering, plaster & plasterboard, existing tiles, wood and wood composites When used as...

smudgeybabes 01.01.2008 (29.12.2007) · Read review
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Review of Wall Tile Adhesive and Grout

laminate flooring

Advantages: looks fine
Disadvantages: a bit tricky

...Having just replaced our conservatory (the old structure was ancient and wood rotten) we decided to do something about the uneven concrete floor. Should we tile it with some flagstones? Should we put a wooden floor down? Should we put lino down? Well what we did was research all the flooring we could put down .We considered the price, the durability of surfaces, the ease of laying floor could we do it ourselves, or did we need to hire someone to do it for us/ Well what we decided was to lay laminate flooring we looked in a flooring shop couldn?t find what we wanted and then went to B&Q . B&Q had a fairly good range and we bought Floor master tile L O C in a sort of terracotta stone colour. This flooring has a ceramic tile effect and is sold in packs to cover 1.748 sq metres each pack cost £31 we needed 4 packs we also bought some...

mumsymary 12.11.2002 · Read review
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Review of B&Q Flooring

Wizzing across the floors

Advantages: Does as it says
Disadvantages: Not disinfecting

...Wizz floor cleaner We have lots of wooden floors in our house and although they are not laminate, i tend to try use this stuff or similar because bleach is too harsh and I like a nice fresh rather than bleach smell. WHAT IS IT? This product has apparently been specially formulated to effectively clean most types of sealed wood flooring ( so not just for laminate) and it promises to remove grease and grime with no need for rinsing afterwards. PRODUCT AND PACKAGING... The floor cleaner comes in a plastic bottle containing 1litre of the product. It?s quite handy because there is a handle on the side which makes carrying it around easier, although a down side of the packaging is the fact that the screw on/off top isn?t child proof, and can easily be opened. The product itself is a light brown colour which is quite...

danielalong 05.11.2009 · Read review
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Review of Wizz Laminate Wood Floor Cleaner

Floored

Advantages: easy to wipe clean, better for asthmatic children and more hygienic than carpet
Disadvantages: shows dirt quicker than carpet and can be noisier

...My friend has recently installed a new laminate floor. He did all the work himself, it only took him two days and was a third of the cost of a carpet. I thought of many reasons for him not to do it:- 1. The room would seem colder 2. It would scratch easily as they have 3 kids and a dog 3. It would start to lift if anything was spilled 4. It would not be comfortable to sit on. 5. It would be noisy 6. It would be harder to keep looking clean 7. There would be a lot of work involved Four weeks later I take it all back. The room doesn't feel colder at all, in fact the rich colour of the wood makes it look warmer. One of his sons is always rolling around on the floor with cars but they don't scratch the surface and neither does the dog. The surface is tougher than I expected. Any spills are easily wiped up...

di-buzz 04.10.2001 · Read review
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Review of B&Q Flooring