from carpet to tilling

[pubhapp]

Hello all I have been a carpet fitter 4 10 years but would like to get into tilling what would u say is the best way to go about this . working with a tiller or going on a course

 

[myhometiling]

welcome 2 the forums

working with a good tiler would be best, cant beat hands on.
some good courses out there too.
everybody has there own opinion.

calvy :beer_yum:

 

[sc24]

stick with carpets mate,at least you havn't got to grout them

 

[Dan]

If you could find a (really good) tiler to teach you on the job and give you pay at the end of the eek you'd be laughing, but I don't think that's easy to achieve to be honest. Even tilers that have been on a course and are offering their time for free seem to struggle.

Most do a course and then a few of their own, their family and friends tiling jobs whilst working on getting their name out there in tile shops etc and then start charging for their work a decent rates. (And I don't mean go out their too cheap to start off with, that just kills the average price, I just mean you'd have done the family / friend jobs at a discounted rate if not for free due to gaining experience and making a portfolio etc).

Welcome to the forum anyway, you've come to the right place to find out this sort of stuff. We're the only tiling-only forum that's not run by a training centre so your feedback etc here is genuine and you can speak to all the members that have left feedback.

Checkout the tiling courses forum and the courses feedback forum and then perhaps the tiling news blog too. The tiling course compant lists can be found at Tiling Courses | Wall Tiling Courses | Floor Tiling Courses UK and Tiling Courses : Tiling News

 

[MTS]

HI

I did the NE tiling course in June, and found it really good, I've been tiling since for a living!! ( so far I haven't starved)

 

[Fred]

I went on a college course and worked with a yop old boy tiler.

 

[GazTech]

I picked tiling up from the joiners I served my time with as kitchen fitter.

 

[brummie tiler]

I Went to college for 2 years and got my nvq,s. college work wasnt overly beneficial to me as i think you dont start learning properly until you are out in the real world overcoming problems as you cross them. for example most of the walls in the college enviroment are near perfect and i didnt really learn alot about floor and wall preping, purley because our tutor said we didnt need to in this enviroment, but most of the walls i come across now you could paint them blue and stick some boats on em!
As SC24 says......Stick to the carpets is my advice!!

 

[TileRob]

hi pubhapp
Have you thought of approaching a tiler and suggesting providing a full house flooring solution. Between two of you i'm sure you could offer service where you could tile, carpet, and laminate the hole house. You could pick up the tiling as you go along.

 

[DHTiling]

hello and welcome to forums........dave..

 

[Fekin]

No offence, but I hate carpet fitters, lol

Had some round a few weeks back, removed doors in lounge to fit carpet, told the wife the doors need plaining down to fit again, so they left them off, I came home and only had to stand the doors in the door ways to figure they still fit just fine, so I fitted them back on myself.

Lazy gits

Welcome to the forums, lol

 

[Varley]

Hello mate, welcome to the forums