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porcelain, tiles, lasers, diamonds

Laser-Perfect Cuts: How We Handle Large-Format Porcelain in Luxury Apartments

The shift from traditional 600 × 600 mm tiles to large-format porcelain — Laminam, Maxfine, Florim Magnum — has pushed tile work much closer to stonemasonry. A single Laminam slab is 1,620 × 3,240 mm, six millimetres thick, and weighs about 80 kg. Drop it once and you've thrown away €600 of material. Cut it badly and the entire wall reads as crooked because there's no grout line to hide behind.This is the work ...

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heating, boiler, modular, savings

The Real Math on a Smart Modulating Boiler

Clients ask us this every other quote: is it worth paying €5,500 for a Remeha Tzerra Ace or an Intergas Xtreme over the €2,800 basic combi from the same brand? The honest answer is that it depends on how the house is run — but for most of the homes we work on, the smart unit pays itself back inside six years and runs quieter, longer, and far gentler on the heating loop.A modulating ...

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heating, fermacell, savings

Why We're Specifying Fermacell Dry Underfloor Heating on Renovations

For new builds, a wet screed underfloor system is still hard to beat on raw efficiency. But ninety percent of the projects we touch in Hilversum, Blaricum and the surrounding region are renovations — and that's where Fermacell's dry underfloor system has quietly become our default.The product is straightforward: a 25 mm gypsum-fibre element with pre-routed channels for 16 mm PE-RT pipework, dropped over a thin levelling layer. Total build-up sits between 25 and ...

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