College work

[bod69]

Here are some of my fisrt year pics of my college work for you all to look at - and to ask if there is anything to inprove or to look at as the course is 2 years and i only have 4 months left will post some of my pass work, as it come's up but would like to hear any feed back from you all.

Phil

 

[Ian]

Looking good Phil How have you found your course?

 

[Tony73]

looks good, well done

 

[bod69]

The course is going ok and have been entered into the skillbuild competition north west in may, at the time i found out it only had 4 tilers entering hoping more will join.

 

[Stef]

looking good m8.

good to see someone learning on a real course & not a "Learn it all in 3 days".

 

[Mike Mike]

It all looks good Phil. The only thing I would recommend is you consider trying, and practising, mitring your edges on windows and other external corners. Of course, the task is made 100 times easier with the brilliant new invention, Mitre Wizz. But even without that, as Tony can attest, it is still possible to do satisfactory mitres with a wetsaw.

If you have the freedom to experiment on your course, try mitring. Once you try it, you'll never go back to plastic trim, or overlap edging...

Good luck!

 

[prceramics]

Good work mate

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Extremely interesting to see the work from a course. Pictures 22 & 23 are unusual as I wonder why the order of tiling is as shown.
Hope you are enjoying it and good luck.

 

[bod69]

Sorry about the order as am new to this will try and sort it out 18 to 23 was a 2mm model and then the tutor said try the hole wall and patch it to as you can see in 22 the wall had a hole in the bottom mibble and was filled with traning adhesive and left to go off hope that helps.

 

[Tony73]

It all looks good Phil. The only thing I would recommend is you consider trying, and practising, mitring your edges on windows and other external corners. Of course, the task is made 100 times easier with the brilliant new invention, Mitre Wizz. But even without that, as Tony can attest, it is still possible to do satisfactory mitres with a wetsaw.

If you have the freedom to experiment on your course, try mitring. Once you try it, you'll never go back to plastic trim, or overlap edging...

Good luck!

can't help my self, just love mitred corners. have not used plastic trims for long time, just don't like em and mitred is soooooooo easy to do with ceramic tiles

 

[AliGage]

I love the diamond/portrait intergration. Looks really good.Could imagine it would look fantatstic incorporated into a kitchen splashback prehaps.

 

[swanman]

That was the NVQ LEVEL 2

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[bod69]

Wall & Floor Tiling Construction Diploma Level 2 as am not in the trade it's diploma only

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

Well done Phil, I like the arch (voussoirs) reminds me of my cubicle at Manchester college of building, from 15yrs to 20yrs. Good luck with your chosen career.

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Sorry about the order as am new to this will try and sort it out 18 to 23 was a 2mm model and then the tutor said try the hole wall and patch it to as you can see in 22 the wall had a hole in the bottom mibble and was filled with traning adhesive and left to go off hope that helps.

Bod - my question was more on the lines of why the top half of the wall was tiled first in picture 22 leaving the bottom half to be tiled in 23. Just wondering!

 

[bod69]

Sorry - timeles john the top was done first as that was all i needed to do, and the tutor said y not do the hole wall and see what it was like all done. hope that helps i gather the wall would has been do from the bottom.

 

[Spud]

well done Bod keep it up

 

[Mike Mike]

I have a question. And I suspect that it would be difficult for the college to accomodate this, but I will ask it anyway.

Does your college give you the opportunity to confront the following:
1. Fitting large format wall and floor tiles (600mm or larger)?
2. Do they have any work bays with deliberately bowed walls, and unflat floors?

I ask because if they do not, then the first job you go on may pose these very obstacles. Fixing tiles to a flat surface is easy. Setting out is easy. Cutting is easy (if you have the right tools). The hard thing in tiling is dealing with large format tiles on poor substrates, and having to try and compensate with building up tile adhesive. They should have you try brick bond on a floor, with 600 x 400 tiles, and an unflat and unlevel surface, just so you get a feel for how much extra hassle, time and adhesive is required to try and make a decent job of it.

 

[SR Tiling]

Some nice work there, Good luck with the Skillbuild. of course you come against uneven surfaces out in the trade but you have to learn how to do these tasks in the first place before you do them on uneven sufaces etc.