Old times reality check.

[Jeff the tiler]

All week this week I have either been tiling 200 x 100 tiles brick bond, or 300 x 300 floor tiles. it feels like i have gone back 20 years apart from the adhesive when 8 x 4 and 12 x 12 tiles were so popular. Unfortunately no round edge and I can not believe how hard I have had to work to achieve the same "yardage"!!! oops! sorry i mean metres.

I expect the next job will provencale shaped tiles or Quarries to be bedded into a screed!!!

How lucky we are currently but i am sure it will go full circle and "topaz vein" will be the next must have.

 

[bugs183]

God, Provencale, thats a blast from the past, we used to fix loads of those, they were always bent!
It does feel weird using floor tiles tht will fit into a Rubi TS40!

 

[Andy Allen]

remember these..... got to love them...lol

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remember these..... got to love them...lol

 

[Dougs Third Go]

it makes me laugh when customers say they've got "massive tiles", turns out to be 600 x 300, now 20 years ago they would've been "monstrously massive" lol

 

[bugs183]

Nice tiles Andy, were those Kitchen Harmony???
Remember those horrible Pilkingtons with the computerised ducks and chickens!

 

[Andy Allen]

yes KH1 or kitchen harmony, used to be my best selling kitchen tile..lol

 

[Andy Allen]

we used to call these chicken tiles....

 

[bugs183]

They were everywhere, fixed miles of them.
Cutting round sockets with no machine, just using a scribe and pinchers.
Ah the good old days!

 

[Andy Allen]

They were everywhere, fixed miles of them.
Cutting round sockets with no machine, just using a scribe and pinchers.
Ah the good old days!

i used to use a rod saw, take an hour to do 1 socket...lol......then it would allways break when you got to the last bit.......:mad2:

 

[bugs183]

Or you'd knock the end of the cut off trying to put it behind the toilet pan or sink that was always fixed.
I can't believe no one had the sense for years to tile first then second fix the sanitaryware!!!

 

[Ian]

we used to call these chicken tiles.... View attachment 49611

I've never ever ripped any of these off, or even seen any, must be because I'm only 23 :lol:

 

[Andy Allen]

I've never ever ripped any of these off, or even seen any, must be because I'm only 23 :lol:

wippersnaper....lol.......you wouldn't belive some of the crap we had to put up with bri, only cutter i had was a pencil scribe and a rod saw, and a grout float looked like somthing you cleaned your windows with....lol

 

[Peter]

Was amazing how many metres could have been fixed in a day 20 years ago when it was 6x6 and not large format rectified. I know old tilers who could have fixed and grouted a 20m bathroom in a day.

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

Was amazing how many metres could have been fixed in a day 20 years ago when it was 6x6 and not large format rectified. I know old tilers who could have fixed and grouted a 20m bathroom in a day.

I was one of them Peter. KH1, TV/ Textile

 

[Peter]

I bet there's not much difference in price per metre now either Phil. An old hand was telling me how tiling was a specialist trade back then and no one worked for themselves, it was all squads. There were only a handful of tilers in the whole of Belfast and now there's about 15 between my house and my suppliers 4 miles away.

 

[charlie1]

Cant wait for someone to come out with a new revolutionary tiling invention So i can tell some when i was a lad stories!!! The most primitive thing i have used is a trowel lol

 

[bugs183]

As said the prices weren't far off it now, and on big kitchens dad and i would fix 40m2 of 6' and be finished by 4pm!

 

[widler]

Fix and grout a 20m2 bathroom in a day, aye allreyt,come on lads,give me a good example

 

[widler]

**** me 40m2 in day, some quick tilers in the past

 

[widler]

hang on 40m2 kitchens, christ, big kitchens, come on bugs ?

 

[Dougs Third Go]

40m2 a day??? I used to be fast and rough, but lately i seem to have lost my speed.....@Phil Hobson, (used to be your signature I think Phil ha ha)

 

[Aston]

iv'e worked with a team of tilers in liverpool who come on this forum and trust me, they could do some serious meters and i mean serious meters, problem is, they used a few, 'how shall we say', unethical/dubious techniques ;0) don't get me wrong, their work was acceptable and it always got passed but its not how you'd want it doing on your house lol

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

40m2 a day??? I used to be fast and rough, but lately i seem to have lost my speed.....@Phil Hobson, (used to be your signature I think Phil ha ha)

That was tongue in cheek doug,:lol: I was never rough. I was fast though, And yes with 6"x6" I did a full bathroom (18yd2) in a day every day on my new build sites, grouted polished. I even got in a half tiled bathroom as well some days. I kid you not, good money back then. Different game all-together.

Anyone who doubts this is a fool, I can bring people on here to confirm this was the norm back then.

 

[Dougs Third Go]

That was tongue in cheek doug,:lol: I was never rough. I was fast though, And yes with 6"x6" I did a full bathroom (18yd2) in a day every day on my new build sites, grouted polished. I even got in a half tiled bathroom as well some days. I kid you not, good money back then. Different game all-together.

Anyone who doubts this is a fool, I can bring people on here to confirm this was the norm back then.

I was only pulling your leg Phil, it must've been a post where you said it

 

[charlie1]

That was tongue in cheek doug,:lol: I was never rough. I was fast though, And yes with 6"x6" I did a full bathroom (18yd2) in a day every day on my new build sites, grouted polished. I even got in a half tiled bathroom as well some days. I kid you not, good money back then. Different game all-together.

Anyone who doubts this is a fool, I can bring people on here to confirm this was the norm back then.

i totally believe you Phil not that i could do a 20 m2 bathroom with boxed in area etc. I would imagine he walls would have been prepped though to get that amount of meterage?

 

[Dougs Third Go]

i totally believe you Phil not that i could do a 20 m2 bathroom with boxed in area etc. I would imagine he walls would have been prepped though to get that amount of meterage?

in those days charlie, you could spread your walls and hold a pack of tiles and boosh boosh boosh, far quicker than the larger format tiles that are commonplace now.

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

I was only pulling your leg Phil, it must've been a post where you said it

It was Doug, I also had the saying, "I might be slow, but I'm rough", again tongue in cheek. This trade has changed so much, unfortunatly not for the better. There are people calling themselves tilers, that I would not trust to do my grouting, very sad, but very true.:mad2:

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

As Doug says, we used to have a stack of 6"x6" under our chin at least one square yard (36 tiles). Bottom half tiled before dinner, top half after, grout polish, done every day.

 

[DHTiling]

I've never ever ripped any of these off, or even seen any, must be because I'm only 23 :lol:

23 .. fricken nora , you must have had the block of flats on ya paper round :lol:

 

[Dougs Third Go]

23 .. fricken nora , you must have had the block of flats on ya paper round :lol:

only thing Bri's ripped off are his velcro leather hot pants...