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Do your own tiling work?

I do my own electrics and tiling basically. I know my limits though so I don't touch plastering or painting. Whoever said if you can wee you can paint is just plain wrong in my opinion!
 
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johnnyplumb said:
armyash , b&q does a good dvd on tiling, covers wall tiling & floor tiling only £2.
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erm...not sure if you are taking the mickey 😛 I thought things like that would be frowned upon on this forum but for £2 it's worth a look, think i'll grab 1 tomorrow and check it out. Thanks
 
armyash said:
erm...not sure if you are taking the mickey 😛 I thought things like that would be frowned upon on this forum but for £2 it's worth a look, think i'll grab 1 tomorrow and check it out. Thanks
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not taking the mick, i bought one a few months ago, it's an excellent dvd, covers everthing you need to know and only £1.99
 
armyash said:
So when doing any work for someone, fitting a new bathroom for example and the customer wants the tiling done do any of you do this too or do you let the customer get someone separate in? I'm just wondering if it's worth doing a short tiling course so I can take advantage of this if I get the chance.

Thanks
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I hate tilling , I get the pros in to do it on my bathrooms ,I think customers paying top money, don't want to see plumbers having a go , i think trades should stick to there trades .. X
 
But if you do it to a good standard does it then not become another trade??
I have seen some so called tradesmen tilers do a right rough job, I can do as good a job as many tilers as can most other plumbers, they are just quicker.
 
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I guess it depends how good you are , like a plasterer dos plumbing & electrics , that's 3 trades in one
 
I dont advertise for tiling work, but if somebody is on a budget I will do it. I aint saying everybody who can put a tile on a wall should now be called a tiler, but many plumbers do other trades. I know a plumbing guy who is the best plasterer you will ever see. Its surprising the differnt trades we all pick up doing plumbing and gas, I have done tiling, plastering, brick laying, carpentry, electrics, kitchen fitting, roofing, and I have fitted thousands of carpets too. Oh the joys of a plumber.
 
Makes life a bit more interesting too. I like doing the electrical and plumbing work in particular, gives a lot more variety to life.
 
I'm a bit like Halesowen. I can do, and am good at, just about every trade. Learned it all when i was an apprentice. When we were slack or i was bored i would go to the joiners or plasterers or sparks and offer a hand and ask a million questions. They were quite willing to teach me and i learned quick......until i started picking up their homers. Roping windows, hanging doors, putting in fireplaces, sockets outside lights....anything to make a pound :lol:
 
I can skim, tile and lay brick well. My Da is a brickie and he used to drag me about with him on school holidays.
I do my own electrics, studwork, fitted kitchens etc. The only thing I won't do is paper and paint, bloody hate it.
 
When I was an apprentice I did more tiling than plumbing.......I hate doing it.....bores the he'll out of me but do it if needs be.....always nice to see the finished refurb and you've done the lot.

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southcoastboile said:
ive always wanted to learn tiling, think its one of those things that looks easyer than it is.
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A 4 year apprenticeship says its not as easy as it looks.

When doing work in someones home & taking there hard earned dosh you should really know what your doing or you could end up in court.

The amount of jobs I was called out to last year that a jack of all trades had attempted was unbeliveable in most cases they didnt get paid or when the work faile they ended up on the other end of a hefty lawyers letter.
 
armyash said:
erm...not sure if you are taking the mickey 😛 I thought things like that would be frowned upon on this forum but for £2 it's worth a look, think i'll grab 1 tomorrow and check it out. Thanks
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Wouldnt bother wasting £2 Ash spend it on something usefull certainly not that rubbish, so wrong its unbelievable!
 
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I have done a fair bit of tiling over the years and don't intend to turn down simpler tiling jobs when I set up on my own in a couple of months. That said, I'd always get a pro in for wet rooms or walk in showers etc - the consequences of getting it wrong are just too scary.
 
It usally ends up more cost effective to sub-out the right jobs to the right trades, then you have come back if anything fails and the job is done quicker.

As for folk coming across rough tilers evey trade suffers the same problem.

If im paying for work to be done in my house I much prefer that person to be qualified, get what you pay for I suppose.
 
If I'm not working Sunday i'm going to check out one of the training centres round here and see what they can offer. I don't intend to rely on tiling for work but if the opportunity comes up to earn some money when things are quiet then that's good, would be good to be able to finish off a bathroom etc.
 
that looks good for a basic start ash seems quite reasonable as well. although how they will cram five days worth mon-fri into two weekends sat-sun i don't know.
 
steveb said:
that looks good for a basic start ash seems quite reasonable as well. although how they will cram five days worth mon-fri into two weekends sat-sun i don't know.
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I'll be able to do mon-fri as part of resettlement, I wouldn't even consider doing all that in a weekend. I thought the course looked ok for a starter too so I will pay them a visit before I give any money out 🙂
 
gall.b-tiler said:
A 4 year apprenticeship says its not as easy as it looks.
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Is it really a 4 year apprenticeship in tiling? Never would have thought there could be that much to it. I'm not trying to be facetious, just curious. Surely after you've learned how to identify and prepare surfaces, use batons, work with adhesive and grout and set things out properly it's just practise. I'd have thought a year working with someone would be more than enough.
 

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