Dovetail Wood & Stone

22/06/2018

We finished the lobby today, we really love the planks on the walls, makes an impression when you walk in and whilst we thought the brick slips would be awkward, they actually are a dream to lay, so many variations in colour......our thanks to the guys at Topps tiles at Byfleet for bending over backwards to sort out the stock.....

15/06/2018

Tiling a lobby this week, vertical planks (porcelain), with a brick slip floor. Tiles supplied by Topps tiles at Byfleet....

30/04/2018

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11/03/2018

A couple of odd ones this week, frozen pipes and a faulty immersion element.. Apparently the immersion was changed for a new one a year ago..... We'll let you judge that given its condition.... Frozen pipes due to a bad plumbing run too close to the bottom of a soffit, so we've reworked the run and insulated everything.... Something the original installer should have done!

04/08/2017

We go, twice a year, to a customer in Surrey to wax her terracotta floor, which we installed in 1998.....but I had never noticed the beautiful detail on her fascias.....hand carved we think........

14/07/2017

Pretty much finished on the leaky bathroom project, we were given some mosaic so we've used it to jazz up the boxing in and create a more defined splashback for the basin.
Plastering the awkward ceiling was straightforward in the end and it will look much better for a coat of paint.
Small LED batten holder lamp fitted in the lobby....back next week to boost upstairs shower pressure with the addition of a shower pump.......

07/07/2017

Tiling starts in the leaky shower, plain whites on the walls in a broken bond and one of our favourites.....ceramic planks for the floor.....the guard on the wet blade broke off, so my inventive apprentice came up with the MK1 sponge hover guard.... made me laugh!!

05/07/2017

Working on the tanking of the leaky shower today, we've installed wedi backer board to the sides and BAL waterproofing to the back. Note the use of waterproofing jointing tapes on vertical and horizontal joints. Start tiling tomorrow.......

29/06/2017

Clients timber floor cupping badly, leaking shower cubicle was the cause, so we've ripped up the flooring and applied latex to the shower room floor in readiness for tiles.
The leak appears to have been a bad seal between the tray and the tiles, so we are going to replace it all and will document the work here as a guide........

27/06/2017

Something a bit different for us this week, we've been building a compound for our clients Rotweilers......nice bit of bespoke fencing from Jackson's....quite simple to build but the ground was a mix of sand and rocks, so it wasn't the easiest dig......