Key To Success In Tiling

[Donnie]

Cheers Darren,

I appreciate your honesty. Like you I have been through many businesses in the last 20 years some success and some failures so I am all to well aware of the pitfalls and the need to go get and not sit back.

I have a shop which I am selling up due to the divorce but the guy buying it is a recognised tiler and has offered me a deal to train me and pay me for that training and provide all the tools i reguire to set up alone as part of the financial agreement for the shop.

Problem is I give up my shop and i dont get any tiling work, i am then looking at a bleak future. I am only wanting small domestic jobs to start with.

I will look into your courses also and maybe a possibility is to train with you guys and build my comfidence before selling up and moving on.

Thanks for the advice


Donnie

 

[UKTT Darren]

No Problem Donnie
If you need any info about anything just give Tracey Or Myself a ring at the office on 0191 4274529 for a friendly chat
Regards
Darren

 

[bluefox]

Hi Donnie, I've just completed Darren's Tiling and Plastering course, and I'm back on Monday for the plumbing course. I can confirm everything Darren says, and I highly rated his courses (see my review postings for detailed feedback). I'm really conservative when it comes to decision making, and naturally worry - as was a source of entertainment to all the lads on the course.... I've never picked up a trowel before in my life, and I'm really confident to tackle any tiling job and plaster the most awkward artexed out of shape walls. Derek is a really good plastering tutor as well, and Colin the plumbing tutor seems really good as well.
Darren and Tracey run a really professional honest business, delivering intensive all round training skills. I've become obsessed with tiling everywhere I go, I cant watch TV without staring at the tiling at the background - and above all - I can't believe how absolutely awful, average at very best so much of it is....
Hope this helps, if you need any more info just let me know.
Darren, see you Monday!
Thanks, Simon.

 

[Ajax123]

"if you are employed all you have to do is turn up at work, do your job, go home and get paid at the end of the month."

Yeah right!!! course its simple when your employed isn't it. I think not.

 

[UKTT Darren]

Your missing the point Ajax of the quote, the point made is when employed you dont have to look where your next pay cheque is comming from, therefore you turn up, do your work then your employer pays you every week / month, not like that when your self employed, once you finish a job, you have to find the next one or no pay,
The origional start of the post is to help people out and give them a better chance and what i believe is right and how ive made it, its upto the people who read it to take any notice of it and implement it and possibly better themselves and their business, if anyone disagrees with what ive said then thats their opinion which is fine with me, just carry on as normal and take no notice of what ive said

Thanks simon for your post
See you Monday
Regards
Darren

 

[spooner68]

1. Answer the phone nicely it may be huge new enquiry
2. Turn up for the quote on time, in clean boots or take them off
3. Sell yourself gently, be confident, make sure you are giving the client what they want
4. Be prompt with your quote (in writing and as detailed as necessary to avoid confusion, making sure you are quoting for what they want and make getting paid for extras a bit easier)
5. Follow up the quote with a phone call (shows you are keen and if you are not successful ask why and act accordingly with the next one, you might even get a crack at re-selling the job or re-pricing)
6. Turn up on time, treat the house and customer with respect (pretend its your Mam's house)
7. Do the job well including any "little favours" up to the point they are taking the mick
8. Confirm the job is satisfactory and get paid.
9. ALWAYS sort reasonable/justified (and sometimes unjustified) problems out for as long as is reasonable

Get in, get done, get out and get paid. Customers want someone who will turn up, do the job they way they want and in the time they said (not jumping back and forward from job to job). you will get recommendatoins and repeat work. Its far from easy but it WILL help you be a success.

Here endeth the first lesson.

 

[Ajax123]

Your missing the point Ajax of the quote, the point made is when employed you dont have to look where your next pay cheque is comming from, therefore you turn up, do your work then your employer pays you every week / month, not like that when your self employed, once you finish a job, you have to find the next one or no pay,
The origional start of the post is to help people out and give them a better chance and what i believe is right and how ive made it, its upto the people who read it to take any notice of it and implement it and possibly better themselves and their business, if anyone disagrees with what ive said then thats their opinion which is fine with me, just carry on as normal and take no notice of what ive said

Thanks simon for your post
See you Monday
Regards
Darren

No offence taken and none intended in the forthcoming rant. It just annoys me when the assumption is made that just because you work for an employer it is as simple as you go to work do your job go home and get paid. That is ok if you want to be a labourer or work in a factory or a call centre. For those of us who are ambitious and care about what we do enough to drag our selves out of the gutter of our upbringing it just does not work that way. I work for Lafarge. Granted I am currently getting a monthly pay cheque. However there are 40,000 people in the in my sector of the industry who thought they would be getting their pay cheque each month too but they are now out of work due to redundancy, bankruptcy etc etc. I and my colleagues too have to fight for the jobs we win and there is absolutely no guarantee that the job I am currently supplying won't be the last one. Believe me in this industry it is no easier being employed and when ever I am asked by people what they should do in their careers I always advise starting your own business. My Father ran his own business as a self employed tradesman and he went bankrupt first time round. Whilst that is never easy he was always more emotionally secure being his own boss and being in charge of his own destiny than he ever was when he was in employment.

end of rant and sorry for the interuption. Normal service will now be resumed.

 

[UKTT Darren]

Hi Ajax
Its tough out there for everyone and anyone working employed or self employed has their own problems doing what they do and thinking about the future, just gotta keep at it, do your best and hope life brings you what you desire
Those are good values to have Spooner, good post above

Regards
Darren

 

[Ajax123]

Hi Ajax
Its tough out there for everyone and anyone working employed or self employed has their own problems doing what they do and thinking about the future, just gotta keep at it, do your best and hope life brings you what you desire
Those are good values to have Spooner, good post above

Regards
Darren

That I will agree with

 

[kitchensofdesir]

All good info guys....

 

[Dan]

I'm just bumping some of the tiling course & tiling training related threads. Ignore them if they're not current threads for you. They will drop back off the list in a week or so, and I don't do this much.