Getting my mate to do tiling..pity he cant seem to offer me any advice!

[The D]

Did you leave him your card Deano...

just left him to it. to be honest i am in no position to to start slagging people off on that job.

 

[Rich]

Has to be said that tilers do tend to stick to their trade, there seems to be very few plumbers that dont "tile" (I use that term incredibly loosely).
I still cant understand why they think that it is so easy? Can somebody help me out with that one? Why do plumbers do it?

The job I have just finished, I was laying a decoupling membrane. The plumber says "whats that then?" I told him and he replied with "nah, I just put ply down"

This is after the best line in the world "I do a bit of tiling" :mad2:

 

[paul damian]

Now you know why you can never get a plumber, there too busy trying to put tiles on, greedy bleepers.

 

[White Room]

I do the plastering for a plumber and used to do his tiling, as he's a bit slow on his own work i see none of the tiling..

 

[Daz]

As factual as the posts above are, I think we have drifted away from the OP's questions :lol::lol:.

I don't think your mate is much of a tiler and I would find a reason not to use him if I was you.

The floor needs to be deflection (bounce) free, walls need to be flat and rigid, and properly tanked (I don't know anything about the Wickes fleece) before tiling commences. Porous substrates should be primed with an acrylic primer and use a flexible cement based adhesive.

Search the forum for advice and you will be fine.
Good luck,

Daz

 

[Yorkshire Tiling Services]

Sum =
Mates + jobs at own house ( that are usually done cheap ) = trouble / potential fall outs

Solution = pay somebody else = keep a friend

 

[Dan]

Just bumping some of the older popular (sometimes not so popular) threads. Probably wont be current discussion these days but I just need to do it. So just ignore the thread if it's not current for you.