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pete fearn · 22-06-2008

Hi i live in Louth, near Grimsby, am 42 and looking for someone willing to take me on as an apprentise, i know you can get funding for taking on an apprentise from train to gain. I have done a one week tiling course and now wish to get my NVQ level 2.
Not coming from the area, any info on bigger tiling firms that i could contact would be usefull, any were in lincolnshire, or north humberside.
I have been told about the course from chase tiling, but i am also looking at this approch incase funding does not come through.
Yours thankfully Pete Fearn
PS getting CSCS card in 3 weeks

smartile · 22-06-2008

good luck in your search mate.

pete fearn · 22-06-2008

cheers i know its going to be hard to find someone to take me on but we live in hope

**enduro** · 22-06-2008

My advice would be do a longer tiling course, the set up on your own as i think this would be your only chance at the moment, as a lot of tilers are struggling to find work for themselves, let alone a apprentice. Good luck anyway

22-06-2008

totally agree with enduro.

after 4 weeks, you will be more confident. i did a 1 week course but to be fair it hardly covered floor tiling and the setting out techniques were really basic. even the natural stone course was brief in comparison to what i have recently learned. the recent course i did was 3 weeks and i opted to do a week plumbing. there was a women there who was doing a city and guilds in plumbing and she said she learned more about plumbing in a week there, than what she had learned in the first 6 months of college.

apparently diamond is very comprhensive, so speak to kenny or phil from chase, just realised your from grimsby so that might be better. theres grants out there now that will pay 60% of the course fees!! get out there and grab them and learn the rest on here from all the lads!!

at your age you'll pick up quick because you have too. its hard to get a good timeserved tiler to learn from so make your own luck to begin with and see what transpires. you could share work after your course and earn and learn ;0)

all the best mate
ed

pete fearn · 22-06-2008

i fully agree with you, thats why i want a hands on apprenership rather than a few weeks at collage, i am unemployed so all course fees are going to be dear for me. you get payed to take on an apprentise, thats why i was looking for a bigger company to take me on

bj F · 22-06-2008

Hi don’t mean to be rude but you have two hopes and one of them is bob.
But the best of luck to ya.

Woody123 · 22-06-2008

Pete

Have you not got any friends or family that need any tiling doing, you could do it for them cheapish and learn that way, you will soon build your confidence. I know it is scary at first but i was in the same boat as you and i tried looking for someone to take me on to build confidence but in the end no one was intrested. I done my own bathroom (if your un-employed i know this is probably not an option for you) and i am on my first paying job at the minute and have another 2 lined up (one is a recommendation from my current customer as im doing 2 of his bathrooms) i must say i was nervous at first but you get more relaxed as you go along and i have also learned loads that i can take into the next bathroom and thats just from doing a couple of jobs. Have faith in your ability and things will be fine.

pete fearn · 22-06-2008

its not the confidence i need, its the knowledge and the skill that i need to learn and i am not going to get that in a few weeks on a course or sat in a classroom.
As from 2010 all tilers will need NVQ level2, not only those working on sites but ALL and if you havent got it or are working towards it what then?
There is a shortage of skilled trades people in this country and i can now see why, you get payed by the goverment to teach someone to learn a trade but still its a closed shop, no wonder this coutry is in the s**t

**whitebeam** · 22-06-2008

The domestics arn't going be asking for your nvq probably would'nt know one if it fell on there heads, The skill shortage should a work shortage at the moment from what some of the guys are saying

pjtiler · 22-06-2008

42,s a bit old to be brewing up going to the chippy and sweeping up with the odd bit of grouting thrown in mate

pete fearn · 22-06-2008

domestics asking for it or not you will still have to have it, as for work shortage its not going to last for ever unless more forigners come in to fill the skills shortage