10 QUESTIONS


10 QUESTIONS WITH... DAVE ROWLEY


Each issue we ask an industry professional the Tomorrow’s Tile & Stone 10 Questions. This month, we chatted to Dave Rowley, Training Manager at BAL.


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IF YOU COULD INVENT ONE PRODUCT TO MAKE YOUR JOB EASIER, WHAT


WOULD IT BE? A rapid-setting ready mixed adhesive to fix all sizes of tiles.


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WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST JOB? After leaving school at the age of


16, I started an apprenticeship with a tile fixing company in Stoke-on-Trent, called Hamil Tiles.


HOW DID YOU GET INTO THE TILING INDUSTRY?


I went straight from school to work with Hamil Tiles, spending one week a month at college in Manchester and three weeks on the job. I had to travel to Manchester because no local colleges at the time did wall and floor tiling.


WHO, IN ANY OTHER INDUSTRY, DO YOU MOST


ADMIRE? Bill Gates – an inspiration through his successful business career and charitable foundation.


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IF MONEY WAS NO OBJECT, WHAT CAR


WOULD YOU BUY? Something sporty and a convertible, maybe an Aston Martin Vanquish Volante.


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WHAT DID YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU WERE


GROWING UP? From an early age I was always doing practical jobs around the house with my father, I always wanted to do a


practical trade, bricklaying or joinery, I later found out that my father and uncle with both tile slabbers.


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WHAT DO YOU DO TO UNWIND?


I like to keep active and go out socialising with friends, but I do like to put my feet up and watch a good film.


IF YOU COULD HOST A DINNER PARTY WITH ANY


THREE GUESTS, DEAD OR ALIVE WHO WOULD THEY BE


AND WHY? Freddie Mercury from Queen because he is a great entertainer, Andy Bell and Vince Clark from Erasure - their music has featured through most of my adult life and has lots of memories associated with it, including the first dance at my wedding.


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IF YOU COULD VISIT ANY PLACE IN THE WORLD, WHERE WOULD YOU GO


AND WHY? Back to Mumbai, India, but as a holiday instead of when I worked there, to be able to see more of the sights.


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LEIGH PRICE, MANAGING DIRECTOR


OF REAL STONE & TILE, ASKED: “WHAT’S THE MOST EXPENSIVE PRODUCT YOU


HAVE EVER SOLD?” I don’t work in sales, so I couldn’t tell you the most expensive thing we have ever sold as a company; but, personally, I sold my house last year and that was definitely the most expensive thing I have ever sold!


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