Dave

hi gareth mate...good luck on your relocation...let us know how you get on.........dave..

Frankie

Good luck to all of you, you have got to give it at least three years, if you get home sick don't come home until that three year period passes, it will unsettle you even more, trust me I emmigrated to New Zealand in 1987. One thing is for sure your going to a much better place, where pound for pound your money will go a lot further all the very best

crocotile

hi gareth

you'll be fine mate

sand and cement floor screeds are easy my friend.

datum line...measure each corner to the floor, find the highest point, dont let this be higher than the door way!!!

if on concrete, put a slurry mix down of water, pva glue and cement. brush this into all the floor.

then mix sharpe sand and cement at a ratio of 3 and 1 or 4 and 1. mix by hand for small areas . it needs to stick together if you scrunch it in your hand so avoid a cemnet mixer, it sticks to the sides ( large areas , get it delivered with a 4 hour retarder in).

right , now put a pat od sand and cement in one corner and one at the other end of the room. put your level on it and rub towards your self until level. fill in beween and rub up using a devil float. do the smae at the other side of the room. in affect you will have 2 parellel screeds at either sid eof the room. fill in between to about 3 ft , rule off towards yourself and then rub up until sflat with a poly, devil float, close in with a floor/plasteres trowel. keep doing this in 3 ft sections until you reach the door threshhold.

hope this makes sense, if not pm me. floor screeds are really easy mate, dont let them put you off. when u can do theae, outside work is easy. you'll be doing flaggin, block paving and all other projects that first looked difficult,, no worries as the aussies say :0)

geordiepom

Hi Gareth croc tile is right, just plenty of practice when u get here with yer screeding and you ll b right. Forgot to mention that all the shower floors are tiled aswell, not like shower trays back home. Also there is a lot of tile trim here. but alot of people still ask me to do mitres on the tile edge, no probelm just charge 4 it.
Do you know where you will be living in sydney yet, we live on sydneys northern beaches, i live at curl curl, just 5 mins from manly beach big tourist area 2nd to bondi.
Great place to live , huge expat community all our mates are either jocks, welsh, irish and english and a few geordies aswell, its just like home away from home, great when the football is on plenty of micky taking, even better when we beat the ossies at something RUGBY WORLD CUP HA HA HA.
Any how check out sydneys northern beaches on net, and if you do decide to move in same area, no worries meating people . Also if yer need some practice with screeding give us a yell, or few a few bevvies cheers carl

gm renovations

Cheers for all the advice guys,

I cant wait.

I will let you know are plans as we go, one of my best mates lives there, he has just married an oz girl.

Many thanks on the screeding advice as well, i will look into this.

Gareth

ChaseTiling

If your looking to get your NVQ mate, then I don't mind coming over there to assess, chief

lol

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elsdevine

hello there... I'm headin to oz on 24/11 for a years traveling hoping to do a bit of tiling for some fun money along the way! so if you need any help when your out there gimme a shout :-)
elaine...

Fred

Whats all the £3000 payment about? is it an initial assessment?