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steadsy-boy · 18-12-2006

Hi to all you would be tilers out ther ,
just a quicky on my tiling coarse experience , wanting to be self employed i chose to do a 4 week tiling coarse , which i must say was very , very good , the instructor really knew his stuff BUT , i felt you needed to be some kind of mathmatician to get your head round the setting out process , if like me you struggle with numers and maths be warned , i`m still gonna try with my goal to become a s/e tiler but it will be with guaging rods rather than the mathematical solution , the coarse gave me a good insight to tiling , taught me what makes a good tiler from a bad one , but i came to the conclusion you can not teach someone in 4 weeks whay someone has done all there life ,
the coarse teaches you the finish but i feel it doesn`t teach you what you are gonna find wrong with substraights and subfloors to get to the point of the finish , i.e screeding a floor , replacing plasterboards behind bathroom and kitching fittings , plstering / rendering , all the things you can only learn from site experience , i`m glad i done the coarse but it`s all very well in a controlled envirment with budget whites i think it will be a bit different in a customers house with a £25 tile in my hand ,
this is just my view and i`m still gonna try to succeed as a tiler but i just wanna say don`t expect to do a coarse and off you go there alot more that comes with site experience that you won`t learn at these schools , good luck to you all , hope you get out of it what you want ,
regards steadsy-boy
P.S if anybody in the Brighton / Worthing area wants a newly school trained unexperienced tiler for £100 a day give us a shout

23-12-2006

Get yourself on a 1 week plastering course - its just the job for your tiling work when it comes to re-boarding, skimming small rooms and patch/repairs. I wouldn't recommend plastering huge rooms after it though....