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Can anyone reccomend a good comfortable grout float and also where i can but it from. Have several and they do the job really well but the handles are solid plastic and bruise and blister my hands like hell.

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Blimey, you must be over gripping the thing?!?

We sell Rubi, Tile Rite and Silverline ones. No comebacks off them at all.

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Blimey, you must be over gripping the thing?!?

We sell Rubi, Tile Rite and Silverline ones. No comebacks off them at all.
Can you link where i could buy some Rubi ones from you please mate
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best iv used is a tileasy pointed float
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I use the marshalltown ones and have no probs with them..it's just your soft hands mat mate..they'll toughen up...don't worry...
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I use the marshalltown ones and have no probs with them..it's just your soft hands mat mate..they'll toughen up...don't worry...
Where do you get your Marhaltowns from Dave?
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I get mine from CTD at the moment.......never really looked anwhere else yet...
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Just bear withit mate, after a while your hands will be calloused to hell, won't matter waht kind of float you use !!
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B&Q sell a couple of Marshalltown Floats for around £9 penno.

http://www.diy.com/diy/jsp/bq/nav/na...=1196782629430
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Think trade tilier does too. I bought a couple off e-bay and a couple of trowels and they are all working great.
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