Are short course providers diluting the tiling trade.?

[DHTiling]

OK.. let's have the truth.. warts and all..

Do you as a long standing tiler and i am not talking about 2 or 3 years tiling.. do you long standing tilers think these quick buck providers are devaluing what is a specialised trade. ?


What are your feelings on this... honestly.. ?

 

[strummerman]

yea they are and that is with all trades not just tiling

 

[tubs]

Problem is big companies going under and alternatives are going on your own, I'm an example and I'm 5 years trading on my own, it's the way the UK economy is and will not get any better, and will never be the same as before !

 

[DHTiling]

Just to add, this is not a dig at new comers to the trade, this is the training providers giving false hopes and mickey mouse certificates at the end of a week etc.

 

[strummerman]

no matter how good you were on the coarse you are not ready for the real world and by GOD its mad at times

 

[Gazzer]

I feel the punters are being mislead by the promises given by some companies.

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

Yes Dave, I do think this trade is going down hill, the skills are being diluted day by day, tiling used to be a trade, but not anymore it seems.

I like you and many other members of this forum, who are real tilers, should feel resentment towards the pretenders.

 

[DHTiling]

Yes Dave, I do think this trade is going down hill, the skills are being diluted day by day, tiling used to be a trade, but not anymore it seems.

I like you and many other members of this forum, who are real tilers, should feel resentment towards the pretenders.

Would you say it is the course providers Phil or just wanna be tilers in whole..?

 

[DHTiling]

yea they are and that is with all trades not just tiling

That is very true... these providers are training in all trades and to get to the very high respected level that you are at, takes a bloody lot of years.

 

[strummerman]

Would you say it is the course providers Phil or just wanna be tilers in whole..?

i would say both its to easy for these course providers to take there money and offer false promises

 

[peteablard]

Absolutely yes! They give the impression you can learn to tile in a few weeks then go out into the real world and earn good money when in fact that couldn't be further from the truth. How many bodged jobs do we see on here that have been done by so called tillers? I' love to know how many of them have been done by someone who has walked into their first paid domestic job straight from a course, lied about how long they have been doing it then ruin the job. I'm not slagging off everyone who wants to get into tiling through the short course route but there needs to be some regulations put in place before an innocent member of the public gets seriously injured because someone has stuck 20mm stone to a painted wall with tubbed addy because the 7 day course provider hasn't fully explained about substrate preparation. Lets be honest how much can you seriously learn in a week or two tiling a booth with perfectly flat walls/ floors.

 

[peteablard]

Yes Dave, I do think this trade is going down hill, the skills are being diluted day by day, tiling used to be a trade, but not anymore it seems.

I like you and many other members of this forum, who are real tilers, should feel resentment towards the pretenders.

That's quite a reserved reply from you Phil, I expected you to go off like one of the rockets I'm watching through my lounge window:lol:

 

[peteablard]

Just to add though, I have worked with tilers who have come through the short course route and those who appreciate it won't be a walk in the park and aren't doing it to try and make an easy living and some of them have been pretty good and taken a lot of pride in their work......

 

[White Room]

yea they are and that is with all trades not just tiling

I agree Mike, It's the fact that that some courses are saying theres a shortage of thousands of tradesmen......oh please.

 

[DHTiling]

Just to add though, I have worked with tilers who have come through the short course route and those who appreciate it won't be a walk in the park and aren't doing it to try and make an easy living and some of them have been pretty good and taken a lot of pride in their work......

This thread isn't dissing the newbies... it is the providers..