Dan

Just been reading the website owned by a former member of tilersforums.co.uk and it seems there is a strong chance there will be a tiling training centre setting up in Nottingham.

http://www.uktilingnews.co.uk/room-f...in-nottingham/

Dave seems to be booking on a few courses to checkout the training centres to see what it's all about. Though he's denying it when questioned but his website reads:

"For the last few months I've been getting more and more enquiries about running tiling courses in Nottingham. Some are asking for just wall tiling others for wall and floor tiling courses. Now I don't know of anyone doing decent courses in Nottingham on topic and lord knows there are lot of really bad tilers in Nottingham; but there's also some real craftsmen out there - yes you know who you are.

Anyway back to the Nottingham tiling courses. The problem I find with all these courses set out in warehouses, industrial units and the like is that the areas in which you work are pretty much perfect. What's wrong with that? Well for a start how many jobs to you think you'll take on which have perfectly plumb, square or level walls, floors, worktops etc? I've never found any. So while these courses may teach you how to fix tiles and set out correctly, they don't take into account the problems tilers face on a day to day basis. So all theory and gets turned on its head and you have to adapt plain and simple.

You could say that you "have to start somewhere" but that means that the customer is paying for you to learn 'real' skills. Sorry to sound negative, but what these tiling courses need are realistic environments as well the perfect ones. That way you can truly learn the ropes so to say.

Then we have the courses which don't full explain the difference between ceramic, natural stones, porcelain and their specific fixing and grouting requirements. Or if they do that's part of a more expensive course."

Which would give me the impression he's thinking about setting one up as it seems the current local ones are not good enough!

And this untrained tiler is also judging professional tilers work too it seems.

I just want to warn training centre's about this guy. If you do take a booking from Dave then be sure to protect your business.

I'm not 100% certain he will. But he's certainly thinking about setting a tiling training centre up in the Nottingham area.

Dan