Tile & Stone Journal

Alfresco Floors provide paving for improved wheelchair access at Chelsea Stadium

Last year it was determined that Stamford Bridge, home of Chelsea Football Club, needed to improve wheelchair access, and add...

Ergonomic PB pedestals for London apartments

Buzon UK supplied and installed the Buzon PB pedestal system for the Southbank Place apartments in the heart of London...

Homebase rescues Bathstore from administration

According to BDO, the firm appointed a administrators in late June, Homebase is set to take over 44 Bathstore stores...

News

Jackon announces support for The Bee Centre

Jackon, the manufacturer of the extruded polystyrene-based Jackoboard solutions for tiling, is launching a year-long campaign of support for The...

Mark Cole takes classic Austin A40 to the races

Tile agent Mark Cole has been at the races again; this time in a 1950 Austin A40 brought over from...

Construction activity levels fall as Brexit continues to hold back investment (1)

June data revealed a sharp loss of momentum for the UK construction sector, with business activity and incoming new work...

Richard Osborne on patchy granite (1)

“We’ve had a number of calls recently about patchy granite. Our first port of call was to check that the...

Madeleine McMullin on branding

“If I told you that Aston Martin was extending its brand and asked you to guess what product area they...

Szerelmey joins the Ethical Stone Register

Szerelmey Ltd has become the first contractor to achieve Declaration level on the Ethical Stone Register. Szerelmey are specialists in...

Features

Cecrisa, Churrasco, and Iron Maiden

TSJ’s Editor, Joe Simpson, sat down with Gustavo Manique Barreto, Area Manager Europe for Cecrisa/Portinari, to find out more about the man, his music, his hobbies, and the many benefits of working for one of the Brazil’s top ceramic tile...

Next Generation Adhesives and Grout

Kerakoll’s Biogel, the recipient of The Tile Association’s 2018 Innovation Award, is a new type of adhesive manufactured using gel technology. The term “revolutionary” can be overused, but in the case of these adhesives is well-deserved as the Kerakoll R&D...

Get closer to nature with new BAL Micromax2 colourways

Colours have been used throughout history as an unspoken language understood by all humankind and are popularly connected to seasonality and to mood. Detail makes all the difference on tiling projects, which is why BAL have introduced a range of new...