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i had done abit of tiling before,but you could say he has trained me.

hi peeps my boss was telling me hes giving me a pay rise this month,i asked how much and he mentioned 100 quid extra a month,ive been with him for 18 months and i can be left alone on most jobs apart from floors or bigger floors i should say.do you this is good or is he being a tight ***.100...

hi simon,try and look around sites to see if you can find the tiling company on the job,if that doesnt work get the number off the company work van.be prepared to have all the tools and your own power,ie genny good luck

thanks for the posts,i do like working for him,he did give me and job,and laided me off and given my job back,but the work is picking up and about time too.

hi all, ive been working for my old/new boss(tiling).doing 4/5 a week on site,i do pretty much everything he askes me to do,but all i get is negative feedback saying i left a plot in a mess or bits of grout was missing,i have'nt been tiling long but id like to think i leave a plot tidy and if...

kind words thanks,let the serch begin

he thinks it will pick up in a few months,but im not gunna hold my breath,ive got a famliy to support

hi and evening on site today and my boss as told me that he has to let me go because its gone really quiet,which i understand,but has told me that it will pick up, and as soon as it does he will take me on again,so should i go find a job or bum around doing little jobs and wait for his phone...

hi peeps just wondering what kind of tool boxes your using as im looking for a new one,cause my tool box/storage u know the one with the wheels is just getting in every bodys way,any info is good cheers

hi,i had no involvement with the original tiling,my boss told me to mix up little grout and go over the crack,i think it is a woodern substrate as i have took up one of the bathroom floors before on the same site.he used setaflex rapid and bal supaflex grey grout

my boss told me to go to a job today,when i got there she had a crack in the grout line in the bathroom floor,the floor has been down for bout 1 year,can some 1 tell me why the crack has appeared thanks

same as above get your cscs card,and go and walk into sites,and ask the site manger who is doing the tiling,see if you can be subby,it worked for me

thanks for advise,its was put right in the end,but he may not see it like that.i think he need to hear my side of the job not his mate,who i think wanted a early finish and when he saw what i did proberly didnt help:oops:

hi guys.... imade a right **** up today,my boss helped set me out on a shower,3 walls with a boarder along the middle.everything sounded straight forward and left me to it.got to the last wall put the first 3 rows in all level, carryed on then got to the last row along the celling none of the...

i guess,i dont know i wasjust told to scrap off all addy,clean up and leave it.why is chipboard not suitable?