Creating Your Own Practice Area

[Shuntstick]

Hi
I got a double (2 car) length garage on my home and I only use the front half of the garage for the car, usually in winter.
I was wondering how you go about creating a practice area at the rear that I dont use.

i.e:
What do you use for fixing onto ... ply boards, plaster boards etc ?
Do you remove your tiles after?
What do you do as practice?

Can anyone run through what you should do to use this waste of space for practice and what sort of things I should be doing?

[Home Tiler]

Well to be honest the 4 week course i did ...i felt quite confident to tile bathrooms ect.... friends and family (small tiling jobs) are great to build your confidence up....

now if your really itching to do some practice work then i would suggest a full size sheet of plaster board ..wall plug it to the garage wall....(make sure you secure it well because of the wieght of the tiles) and away you go...to test your self whack in some copper tubing here and there and also some wall sockets (15mm ply the same size of wall sockets will be ideal..you only have to nail it on then)

setting out for me is the most important part of the job...so i would maybe put a diamond pattern in the centre of the plaster board maybe 4ft sq with a border.... that way you can test yourself with your setting out...
so all in all you have alot of things to look out for on your project...don't be placing your tubing where it will be easy..... just place about five diff size diameters to and work too.



steve

[Dave]

As well as building the obvious flat area's..try building some boxing and window recess area's..this gives you some practise on tile returns and over window head tiling...building some curved area's to tile to on the floors..in fact any shape you can think of to give you practise at scribing tiles would be great...If you build the bays with plasterboard then it is cheap enough to replace when damaged.......dave..

[enduro]

Sounds like a new training school to me...

[Fekin]

Once thats built advertise yourself as a training school and charge £350 for someone to mess about on for 4 days, lol

[devonmark]

Originally Posted by Fekin

Once thats built advertise yourself as a training school and charge £350 for someone to mess about on for 4 days, lol

he,he

[Home Tiler]

Originally Posted by Fekin

Once thats built advertise yourself as a training school and charge £350 for someone to mess about on for 4 days, lol

yeah and don't forget to say you will be professional after you ripped them of...lol
steve

[Fekin]

We'd be great sales reps for a course company

[ryanbrown]

I would screw on 18mm marine plywood to the wall instead because you'll end up damaging plasterboard when you prize off tiles to re use it.

[Shuntstick]

Thanx chaps

[charlie1]

Hi mate,

If i was building a practice are i would build the main wall with a bow in it and practice filling it out with adhesive to try and get a good finish, anyone can tile on to a perfectly straight wall. using cement adhesive might be a bit pricy though but you could mabe use cheap tub gear.
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Had another thought, you could get the wife to tell you exactly what she wants done with the tiles and then when you are about 3 or 4 hours in to it get her to come back in and change her mind, and you could also get another guy to come in and ask questions every half hour this will make it very realistic .

[Home Tiler]

nice one woody...lol
steve