Has any one else had problems fitting Ceramic Style Black Slate
Glueless Laminate.tiles I recently purchased these at homebase and
have had nothing but problems. You click them together and thats the
problem you cannot work around obstacles like pipe work, if the row
you are laying is long. One end will clip in while the other end will
not I purchased these from homebase but think that they will all be
the same from different suppliers. Take this as a warning thanks

MartinB wrote:
Has any one else had problems fitting Ceramic Style Black Slate
Glueless Laminate.tiles I recently purchased these at homebase and
have had nothing but problems. You click them together and thats the
problem you cannot work around obstacles like pipe work, if the row
you are laying is long. One end will clip in while the other end will
not I purchased these from homebase but think that they will all be
the same from different suppliers. Take this as a warning thanks

Most of the click together systems are a pain to use. YOu need to click
all the tiles / boards etc in the row together first, and then click the
whole row into place. It often helps to have two people.

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Cheers,

John.

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John Rumm wrote:
MartinB wrote:
Has any one else had problems fitting Ceramic Style Black Slate
Glueless Laminate.tiles I recently purchased these at homebase and
have had nothing but problems. You click them together and thats the
problem you cannot work around obstacles like pipe work, if the row
you are laying is long. One end will clip in while the other end will
not I purchased these from homebase but think that they will all be
the same from different suppliers. Take this as a warning thanks

Most of the click together systems are a pain to use. YOu need to click
all the tiles / boards etc in the row together first, and then click the
whole row into place. It often helps to have two people.


Weird, I haven't found this at all. I've found click systems much nicer
to use than glued ones.

When I do it, I don't make up one whole row and click it. I click them
in individually, doing the long side first, then tapping it along to
click the short sides together.

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Grunff

Grunff wrote:
John Rumm wrote:
MartinB wrote:
Has any one else had problems fitting Ceramic Style Black Slate
Glueless Laminate.tiles I recently purchased these at homebase and
have had nothing but problems. You click them together and thats the
problem you cannot work around obstacles like pipe work, if the row
you are laying is long. One end will clip in while the other end will
not I purchased these from homebase but think that they will all be
the same from different suppliers. Take this as a warning thanks

Most of the click together systems are a pain to use. YOu need to
click all the tiles / boards etc in the row together first, and then
click the whole row into place. It often helps to have two people.


Weird, I haven't found this at all. I've found click systems much nicer
to use than glued ones.

When I do it, I don't make up one whole row and click it. I click them
in individually, doing the long side first, then tapping it along to
click the short sides together.

Ah, that sounds better. What brand of flooring was that?

All the ones I have tried have no "slide" once assembled, and require
that you tilt the board up to get it to insert into the slot on the next
one. Obviously this makes it next to impossible to make both joints at
once since you can't tilt on two axis at once. Hence I had to do all the
end to end joints on a row, tip the whole lot, and insert along the
length. Made me wish I bought to glue together stuff!


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Cheers,

John.

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John Rumm wrote:

Ah, that sounds better. What brand of flooring was that?

Homebase own brand, heavy-ish duty, can't remember what it's called.
Around £10-£15 per square metre. I've also done the same with Pergo
click-together.


All the ones I have tried have no "slide" once assembled, and require
that you tilt the board up to get it to insert into the slot on the next
one. Obviously this makes it next to impossible to make both joints at
once since you can't tilt on two axis at once. Hence I had to do all the
end to end joints on a row, tip the whole lot, and insert along the
length. Made me wish I bought to glue together stuff!

I think most (possibly all?) of the click togethers can be 'tapped' in
rather than tilted in. There's a special profiled tapping block which
avoids damaging the edge profile.


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Grunff

On Sep 12, 1:14 pm, John Rumm wrote:
Grunff wrote:
John Rumm wrote:
MartinB wrote:
Has any one else had problems fitting Ceramic Style Black Slate
Glueless Laminate.tiles I recently purchased these at homebase and
have had nothing but problems. You click them together and thats the
problem you cannot work around obstacles like pipe work, if the row
you are laying is long. One end will clip in while the other end will
not I purchased these from homebase but think that they will all be
the same from different suppliers. Take this as a warning thanks

Most of the click together systems are a pain to use. YOu need to
click all the tiles / boards etc in the row together first, and then
click the whole row into place. It often helps to have two people.

Weird, I haven't found this at all. I've found click systems much nicer
to use than glued ones.

When I do it, I don't make up one whole row and click it. I click them
in individually, doing the long side first, then tapping it along to
click the short sides together.

Ah, that sounds better. What brand of flooring was that?


I thought they were all like that!

MBQ

On Sep 12, 12:52 am, MartinB wrote:
Has any one else had problems fitting Ceramic Style Black Slate
Glueless Laminate.tiles I recently purchased these at homebase and
have had nothing but problems. You click them together and thats the
problem you cannot work around obstacles like pipe work, if the row
you are laying is long. One end will clip in while the other end will
not I purchased these from homebase but think that they will all be
the same from different suppliers. Take this as a warning thanks

As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, you click them in one at a time
to the previous row and then join them by sliding along the row, using
the tapping block. To get round, e.g., a radiator pipe, cut a 15mm
hole where the pipe will go then cut a slot with a fine tooth saw from
the end of the plank to the hole. Keep the bit you cut out of the
slot. Now click the plank in place and slide it up to the wall
(leaving the expansion gap) and fit the bit you kept, to fill the
slot. If you have a pipe at both ends of the same row then I think
you're stuffed!

MBQ

On 12 Sep, 00:52, MartinB wrote:
Has any one else had problems fitting Ceramic Style Black Slate
Glueless Laminate.tiles

No, just lock a few packs of the boards into the room with a Fein
Multimaster, leave them overnight and by morning the Multimaster will
have fitted the lot for you.

On Sep 12, 2:39 am, John Rumm wrote:
MartinB wrote:
Has any one else had problems fitting Ceramic Style Black Slate
Glueless Laminate.tiles I recently purchased these at homebase and
have had nothing but problems. You click them together and thats the
problem you cannot work around obstacles like pipe work, if the row
you are laying is long. One end will clip in while the other end will
not I purchased these from homebase but think that they will all be
the same from different suppliers. Take this as a warning thanks

Most of the click together systems are a pain to use. YOu need to click
all the tiles / boards etc in the row together first, and then click the
whole row into place. It often helps to have two people.



...and/or cut down the bits on the click bit and glue them in place.

Grunff wrote:

I think most (possibly all?) of the click togethers can be 'tapped' in
rather than tilted in. There's a special profiled tapping block which
avoids damaging the edge profile.
That's the theory. In practice it's never really worked for me, easier
to do a whole row at once.



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djc

On Sep 12, 7:31 pm, djc wrote:
Grunff wrote:
I think most (possibly all?) of the click togethers can be 'tapped' in
rather than tilted in. There's a special profiled tapping block which
avoids damaging the edge profile.

That's the theory. In practice it's never really worked for me, easier
to do a whole row at once.

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djc

I never got them to slide once I had clicked them far better with the
glue ones

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I never got them to slide once I had clicked them far better with the
glue ones

I've just done two floors with two different brands and both slid. They
did take a bit of a knock to do it sometimes but I think it would be a
right pain to try to do a whole row.
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Regards,

Geoff Berrow

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Berrow contained the following:

Message-ID: . com from
MartinB contained the following:

I never got them to slide once I had clicked them far better with the
glue ones

I've just done two floors with two different brands and both slid. They
did take a bit of a knock to do it sometimes but I think it would be a
right pain to try to do a whole row.

Update.

Just done another floor with heavier duty flooring and the instructions
recommended no sliding so it was a two man job. Not too difficult
though.
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Regards,

Geoff Berrow