practice wall

[osborne22]

Hi i have taken the decision to change career to plastering and tiling. i want to get some practive in while im learning before i eventually go out and work. I have looked in the search tool for some advice on how i should go about building one and what i should use?

Thanks for your help in advance

[Sir Ramic]

Hi i have taken the decision to change career to plastering and tiling. i want to get some practive in while im learning before i eventually go out and work. I have looked in the search tool for some advice on how i should go about building one and what i should use?

Thanks for your help in advance

have you got a garage ?

[osborne22]

Yeah well its a big metal shed lol

[Sir Ramic]

fasten some plaster board to the side and off you go.
Achitrave down one edge and in the middle form a window to cut around.
Maybe use ply or chipboard as you will be able to clean it off better.

[Wingn]

What about building some sort of small wall in your large shed from concrete blocks? Good experience for plastering, and if your wall/plastering is bumpy, it'll be a good experience for real world tiling.

[penkhull]

If you use plywood and then cover it with a cheap grease the adhesive will stick but then be easy to remove afterwards, it's what BAL used to do in their training centre. (Not sure if they still do)

[suave]

hi mate make a board up like the one on my avatar and get nipping,hope this helps

[Ajax123]

thinking outside the box a bit and not at all sure if it would work but so you get more than one go with the wall without having to replace the board would it be useful to put wallpaper on it first to make stripping the practice tiles off reasonably easily..?

[penkhull]

Wall paper does work but the grease is easier, you can just apply it with a grout float and it only takes seconds. Also with the grease you can pull off the tiles and re postion them with the wall paper it sometimes comes off when you pull a tile off.

[Wingn]

Prime the walls with undiluted PVA for an easy strip.

[scribbler]

Chipboard painted with yacht varnish makes a good practice substrate. Holds just enough to fix tiles with a cheap ready mix adhesive and then grout, but not too hard to strip back and scrape off ready to go again and again.

[Dave]

If you nip down to your local tile training centre, they should have some training adhesive that they might sell you..

[WHID to?]

Then ask all of your friends and family for any old tiles they have knocking around. Its amazing what you will get to free up some space in their garages!

I look out for the buggared sheets of plasterboard in Wickes - may be no good to use in the real world but 50p a go its alright for a dummy run in the shed/garage and they are more than happy to get rid of it.



Good luck with it.

[osborne22]

cheers ill get on it this week. think ill try the yacht varnish i used to fit out boats for my first job iv got some knocking around.

Ben

[shogun rua]

hi mate make a board up like the one on my avatar and get nipping,hope this helps

was stuarts jokes as bad when you was training?

[Scott]

I know someone who has a load of cheapo tiles is if you need any, £2 mt

[suave]

was stuarts jokes as bad when you was training?

yeh mate he took a bit of getting used to good bloke after that,
i wondered how long it would have took for someone to recognise
the pic,the board fae hell i call it

[shogun rua]

yeh mate he took a bit of getting used to good bloke after that,
i wondered how long it would have took for someone to recognise
the pic,the board fae hell i call it

Aye stuart was a bit of a challenge the first week
but after i started slagging him back calling him peter griffin
we got on lol

aye and he turned out to be really sound it was funny hearing
his recycled jokes with the new guy

Great course

[helpsy]

I know someone who has a load of cheapo tiles is if you need any, £2 mt

You can also get 150x150 plain white tiles(1 metre box of 44 for £2.99)