Ray Williams and the team have now completed the build on our own purpose built training facilities.

Ray (Company Director) has designed and project managed the training facility build personally and is keen to see that our own team members and some new faces beginning to use the facilities.

Ray was asked about his vision for the training school and answered with: 

"To me training has always been at the very heart of my company.  I have expected only the highest possible standards from myself and my staff when working on sites.  By creating a training centre I believe that anyone coming to us for training will receive the best opportunity for success that any tiling training centre has to offer.  This is simply because we have been there, seen it and done it!  We can offer on-site experience to trainees as well as the theory and practice needed to gain the skills to cut it out there on site."

We are ready to receive our first students in tiling and plastering so all you need to do is ask yourself: "Are you ready to change your life for the better and learn that skill you have been waiting for?"

1st June 2009

Paul Atkinson in Estimating has successfully secured work for Durham Marble & Ceramic Tiles on a prestigious Office Development for Barnfield Construction at Speke in Liverpool.

Each Office unit is four storeys high and contains wall and floor tiling to male, female and disabled toilet walls and floors on each level using 600x300 format Winto Beige High gloss Ceramic to Walls and Pamesa Dolmen Marengo R9 rated 450x450 for the floors and skirts.  There is also a 169metre square entrance and kitchen area to be tiled in each office with Marte Botticino tiles being imported from Italy by Ceramique Internationale for the job.

Work began on site on the two office units which have total tiling in excess of 1,200 mtr sqr in June and is scheduled to continue up until end of August.  Progress so far has seen two levels completed on the unit A's walls.

Steven Wood, who has recently successfully completed his NVQ Level three in Site Supervising says:

"I was over the moon to be awarded this job as it is another example of how the team here at DMCT is making waves within the tiling world and showing the whole nation what we are capable of achieving."

In challenging times for all the construction industry, tiling and the nation as a whole Paul says:

"In order to maintain productivity levels I am pleased to have won the tender for this contractor.  We have shown now that we are in a strong position to compete with the best on contracts of all sizes and deliver a product that we can be proud of.  I have full faith in our ability to deliver exceptional quality and management standards to our customers each and every time."

With orders being difficult to secure at the moment lets hope there are more like this out there in the future.

 3rd June 2009

Durham Marble & Ceramic Tiles have agreed to provide ceramic wall tiling to Kitchens, bathrooms and en-suites for Frank Haslam Milan on three remodernisation schemes in South Tyneside.

In line with South Tyneside Council social clause policy of providing local work to local companies and tradesmen we have succesfully negotiated for three full phases of works over the next ten months with work started on site in November 2009.

The programmes will see us deliver complete tiling works to six properties per day over five days each week.  This will be thirty houses each week.  When Contracts Manager Paul Atkinson met with the site management team in the pre-start meeting in October he rest assured their concerns regarding maintaining to the programme.

Paul said: "When it comes to delivering high quality tiling on programme and to budget I believe that we offer the best quality service available to Main Contractors throughout the country not only the North East.  We have a history of achieving the right result for all our customers under any challenging circumstances put before us."

He went on to say: "The programme will be challenging to adhere to but with our quality management system in place for both on site works and order processing I know that the customers of South Tyneside Homes will feel 100 per cent comfortable knowing that Durham Marble & Ceramic Tiles are delivering the tiling element of these works."

To date we have completed four months of the programme on time and with another six months to go the future is looking bright for Durham Tiles' tilers.