TTiling has been my entire career as a self employed specialist and have over 30 years of experience as a professional tiler.  I have worked on all kinds of jobs to individual home owners needing the kitchen or bathroom walls and floors tiled, to large contract housing projects as an individual or as part of a large team.

From my experience I have done what most tilers fear, working with expensive materials and the pitfalls with everything that goes wrong.  You could say I have gone through pipes, electrocuted myself, bowing and poor work coming out from using wooden battens.  Not to mention the amount of waste with wooden battens and standard spacers you can purchase and paying for the cost to repair any or all of these eventualities.

This does not work for a tiler in any way and creates undue stress and pressure when doing a job, no matter how careful you are, you will do at least one of these in a lifetime of work as a professional or a DIY person.

The TileTracker came about from one project.  I was contracted on a large scale commercial project as part of a tiling team and anything that could go wrong did.  The project was running behind schedule and the team were instructed to work quickly, not allowing ample time for the plaster work to set. In addition to this it was also very damp from rainy conditions which prompted my development work.

So after the first day on-site and coming back the next day, you wouldn’t believe the issues the rest of the team faced, especially with large heavy tiles.  The range of disasters came from excessive bowing in the first tier of tiles to the tiles and battens being on the floor either intact or pieces.

This rose to a further delay on the project for the rest of the team, but for me I had managed to develop something which worked.

Unlucky for the foreman and the rest of the team, this was the only one in existence at that time.  From here I moved to the patent application and from there, that is where it all began.

It took a great number of years to get to where we are today with the TileTracker, refining the manufacturing and improving the design so it works for customers today and in the future.

Once the TileTracker had started to be sold, attention was turned to the spacers and the defects with using them.  If you speak to any tiler, they don’t like them very much and tend to be a wasted purchase for one project or do everything you would like them to do.

he UNIPLUG was developed with those issues in mind and British Standards requirements for an equal depth grout line.  The original design was based around a simple cross design originally, this allowed for them not to break or snap when using them, leaving part of it stuck in between the tile for a none uniform grout line.

The old spacers were also small and cumbersome when being used and didn’t do the best job at cross sections or on a run of tiles.  They were also not usable for corners and neither were the UNIPLUGS till the design was altered for use in a corner which allowed for perfect corner joins.  This was done simply by removing part of one of the cross sections which is what is sold today.