Able skills victorian and mosaic tiling courses, worth doing?

[JMC tiling]

Hi guys,

Looking at getting into doing some geometric/Victorian floor tiling but would like to go on a course and see some done first hand before I tackled one myself. Have seen that Able skills offer a 5 day course for this skill set and wondered if any of you had any feedback or experience of this? Cost is about £700 which seemed reasonable if the course is good or is there a better way for me to go about learning the art?

Cheers

 

[MTiler]

I did a 5 day victorian geometric course with another company which I enjoyed. Its not easy, and with any short course youll just learn the basics, but its a start.
Its very specialised and easy to get wrong. If you can work with or shadow someone who does a lot of them that would be great.
Its something you have to love doing.
I do the odd one as i dont specialise in it, mosaics are my thing.

Sharon

 

[Unused Account 1]

Did they show you floor preperation sharon

 

[Aston]

Did they show you floor preperation sharon

the preparation is the same for any tile but the emphasis on geometric tiling is to get the floor as 'flat' as humanly possible.

 

[Flintstone]

It's obvious that the floor needs to be pretty much perfect. I don't see why it's any more specialist than any other fidly tiling job, I would do one no problem. Guess it depends on how good you are at your job

 

[Flintstone]

Just got to spend the time setting it out

 

[Andy Allen]

 

[Italy]

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Your right - this was one of my first

Victorian Riding Mill 2

• Time's Ran Out
• May 15, 2010
• 3

Photo taken on a Polaroid in early '80's and scanned in 2010. Job about 45 sq yards and a design taken from a local church.
Tiles 96x96mm full bodied porcelain and all hand cut.

 

[Aston]

Over the past 10 years this forum has attracted some fantastic tilers / trades people and It's also attracted some cranks too BUT! of all the people who have posted, I can honestly say that there's only 2 who could be described as "absolute masters at their trade"

One is Phil Hobson
And the other is Timeless John

So when a person makes a claim about an area of tiling that they have not even done yet and a person shows you a piece of work like the above, I hope you all know which one to trust.