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Hello all I am new to this site which looks great by the way but I am not new to tiling. I am currently 25 years old and work full time in a warehouse. I worked as a trainee tiler for two years from the age of sixteen to eighteen then quit because I didn't like the long hours and basically the guys I worked with. In the two and a bit years I worked as a trainee I worked for a small tiling contractor mainly working in new builds on site but sometimes in customers homes and I feel that I learned a lot but understood that there was a lot more to learn and that tiling is like an art and it takes time and experience to call yourself a good tiler. I have done some tiling work since then every now and again for friends and family and have always done a good job that they were pleased with. I put the effort in to set out right and made sure I stuck to my lines with no lips, good cutting and good grouting. Now I want to get back into it and was wondering what real tilers think about me maybe advertising my services to take on small domestic work at weekends. The aim of this would be to boost my skills, gain more experience and speed and break myself back into what I believe is a really good trade. I feel pretty confident about taking on most of the jobs I would likely come across but I didn't experience doing many floors. I used to watch the guys setting out the floors and I took a lot of it in but am now questioning whether I know enough to do a really good job and worry about making mistakes. I would love to chat with an experienced tiler about this and a few other things just to get a better understanding of things and make sure I use the right methods when laying out floors on complex shapes and also whether or not they think people are happy with tilers working at their homes on weekends. Any advice at all is welcome refarding all of the above. Also if there are any tilers in Newcastle upon tyne who would like a hand working a weekend any time for free. I juat want the experience so please reply and let me know.
