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A love of plywood

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Stone flooring follies A love of plywood. Plywood is of course fantastic stuff – strong, easy to cut and relatively cost effective but when it comes to tiled floors and stone flooring in particular it can cause trouble. Where a suspended floor is present and a tiled finish is required, British Standards requires two layers […]

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About Mosaic

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Mosaic The use of mosaic can be traced back some 4,000 years or more with terracotta inserts used for decoration.  Pebble pavements were introduced by the eighth century BC with the use of different coloured stones.  The Greeks took this further in the fourth century BC by creating geometric patterns and scenes of people and […]

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