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cheers for the reply chase tiling and it makes a lot sense what you said i did a course with you and thought it was really good at the time i had no experience in the field at all and what you offered compared to other private training centres was good value for money. But people think they can go a tiling course for a week and there ready to tile and make a business out as some training providers advertise and it gives people the wrong idea i took the option of a 4 work course which i would say covered the basics of tiling.

Tiling is a massive field !

I personally think the tiling course need to cover the following

Explaining and tiling to different backgrounds not just wooden board in a bay
Walls are never perfect and you need to know what can be tiled and how to over the problem.
Floors are never perfect either and you also need to know how to get round these problems i.e using self levelling products or screeding the floor.
Preparing the background your going to tile to i.e priming the walls and floors and Normal PVA just isn’t good enough.
Wet rooms e.g setting the slopes in the floor, sealing the floor and so on.
Mosaics and i mean proper mosaics not just tiles cut in half and saying there mosaics. Mosaics are a skill in themselves you need to know what your doing.
Tiling around curves or arches.
Learn about the different grading in tiles so you know what application there suitable for. For example you could use the right adhesive for the floor but the customer has brought some tiles for the outside porch and there not frost resistant and they start cracking ??? There is a lot to go wrong is this game.
Different types of trims and how to use them
Different types of grout epoxy grouting is not easy and lot can go wrong
Victorian Pattern work, staggered tiling, diamonds and so on
Using different size tiles and types Ceramics are easy to cut marble, slate, travertine, lime stone, porcelain are much harder.
Using tile nipper correctly so you don’t need a wet cutter for example
Tiling different room layouts.
Pegging off so your grout lines are perfect not just going over with a sponge

The list goes on J

For a lot of colleges now they have mature classes what’s classed as 19 +. So your not with school leavers who can **** around all day.

South Birmingham college run courses 5 days a week.

Full time courses

1 day a week Mon
2 days a week Tues and wed only takes a year to get NVQ2

Evening courses

2 nights a week

They do run these 4 nights of the week not sure what nights of the week and i think its 6pm till 9pm

So there very accommodating these days.

And at the end of the day you will only get back what you put in to the course.

And no i don’t work for south Birmingham college.