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**Dave** · 27-03-2008

seems you haven,t took much notice adam..because Ant has been a moderator of the NVQ forum for quiet a while now.......

**Fekin** · 27-03-2008

Ahh, well I don't go in there, and never noticed the mod bar in the avatar boxy thingy, and what with the name in yellow, it don't stand out that much

**IvegotsTILE** · 27-03-2008

Ask Chase what his CONCEPT is?

**Fekin** · 28-03-2008

He's pht then.

vesco · 28-03-2008

thanks for replies appreciate them

Raja- I'm doing the NVQ at a proper College

LM Ceramics- that experience sounds very familiar, our tutor has never shown us how to grout either

But i've three months to go and i'm going to try and get my tutor to show things more practically- i'll even go and buy the raw materials myself because the college i'm at has the bare minimum.
Anyway thanks again

**Fekin** · 28-03-2008

These NVQ courses don't sound anywhere as good as I thought they would be

deanotile · 30-06-2008

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Originally Posted by TilingLogistics

I understand where you are coming from and can only empathise with your frustration.

My first couple of weeks on an NVQ :

I was told to learn to look telephone numbers in London up

Taught to make a tile staff through a video

Allowed to tile a Herringbone pattern I grouted it and got a bollocking no grouting till at least three months.

Taught how to calculate M2 area I learnt that when I was 10.

It went on and on

Some time ago i interviewed a guy who had just completed his NVQ 2

I asked him three questions

What is the difference between Class B and Class AA adhesive? (I know the classifications have changed now as well) (No Idea)
Explain Briefly Tanking? (No Idea)
Tell me what a Datum Line is? (No Idea)

He added things to his answers of no idea but I won't bore you with the drivel

Give me a tiler who has paid for a good quality intensive course any day

Kev

Kev

I just spotted this post and the penny dropped so I then read some of your other posts. Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive.

You my friend were only on the NVQ course for two weeks anyway.
You did not receive a bollocking for grouting but you did get one for that crap window that you did saying and I quote “ its not my job to straighten the wall out” I suppose they didn’t teach you that on the two week course you did at PITTS did they.
The interview that you mention is also shall we say economical with the truth.
The boy had just left school at sixteen years old and had not just finished an NVQ he had just started one (unlike you he finished his) so he probably didn’t know the answers to your questions at that time. But can you answer why you told him that if he started work for you he had to pay £250.00 for three t-shirts and two trousers?

You also clamed to be a Specialists in Grinding, Honing, Polishing and Sealing of Marble, Granite, Travertine, Terrazzo, Limestone, & all Natural Stone.
Haws that then as when you went on the NVQ you were a clay pidgin-shooting instructor in Spain.
Is that how you become a specialist now get some tools print some cards and that’s it you’re a specialist.

LM Ceramics · 01-07-2008

i dont agree with that comment give me a tiler who has paid for an intensive course i did my nvq at college and i can answer those questions no offence but i would rather have a good time served tiler over a chancer (course tiler) anyday experience is the key

an nvq course with proper training with a time served good tiler is better than a 4 week course you cant call yourself a tiler after a 4 week course same goes for plastering and other trades

**Varley** · 01-07-2008

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Originally Posted by deanotile

I just spotted this post and the penny dropped so I then read some of your other posts. Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive.

My god, who'd have though it, Shakespear quotes on our very own TilersForums...my we are going up in the world

**grumpygrouter** · 01-07-2008

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Originally Posted by LM Ceramics

i dont agree with that comment give me a tiler who has paid for an intensive course i did my nvq at college and i can answer those questions no offence but i would rather have a good time served tiler over a chancer (course tiler) anyday experience is the key

an nvq course with proper training with a time served good tiler is better than a 4 week course you cant call yourself a tiler after a 4 week course same goes for plastering and other trades

I'm OBVIOUSLY not a tiler then!!!

What the flock am I doing on here then......

LM Ceramics · 01-07-2008

you know what i mean grumps im dont want to cause any disrespect obviously after a year or so after your course i mean just as soon as you finish your course im gonna drop this subject now about time served v new tiler.

are we still friends?

**grumpygrouter** · 02-07-2008

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Originally Posted by LM Ceramics

you know what i mean grumps im dont want to cause any disrespect obviously after a year or so after your course i mean just as soon as you finish your course im gonna drop this subject now about time served v new tiler.

are we still friends?

Of course we are.

It is just that as has previsouly said in other posts on the subject, people learn at different speeds and have different attitudes, whether they are short course or "time served". There can be good and bad from both outlets and it is really up to the customer to sort the wheat from the chaff, so they can get a job done that they are happy with.