Are tiling courses worth it? Is there a market for independent training centres?

[mz30]

I apologise in advance,am not a great fan of tiling courses,what i tend to see is an influx of people who have done a months courses and think they can tile the world,they cant.

Tiling a booth and using batons etc is not what the game is about,infact the last time i used a baton was when i was using bal flex years ago,no offence to the courses but they need to start teaching other stuff ,as a previous thread on the forum stated "tiling is getting harder",i work with a guy who done a course 3 years ago working along side me and he stills make silly mistakes.

If you gonna do a course think long term 5 years on you will still be learning infact guys 20-30 years on are still learning.

 

[DHTiling]

Thats better..🙂🙂

 

[mz30]

question for you mz30, how many experienced tilers do you know that you would recommend and how many would you not let near your bathroom?

Sorry mate missed your question,to answer it truthfully i wouldnt let any tiler near my bathroom :lol:.

I probably know or have known over a 100 tilers in my time,to be perfectly honest its probably been 60 good ones 40 bad ones at a guess,but at the end of the day your only as good as your last job.

To tell the truth ,we all make mistakes and it could be that the 40 i am talking about were having a bad day/job etc so that may narrow the number down to about 20 really bad ones who make the most basic of mistakes.


To answer nett darrens post

trouble is with opinions is mz is you have never been to a training centre so you dont know what and how they teach and can only speculate on what goes on there, there is good and bad ones like everything in life, just like there are bad tradesmen that have been trading 20 years, you are making your opinion of training centres on the lad you talked about on the site you were on

Am sorry but am not,am basing my opinion on the fact that no matter how good the course ,how good the teacher and how good the student,
They will not be able to walk onto a job after a month and know everything they think they do.

I honestly have no problem with tiling courses,i just think that they should be longer and that the tilers should be told of the expectations of a tiling company and that they should get a bit of experience before taking it on full time.

 

[diamondtiling]

I dont try to do that but i can only give my honest opinion from my experience.

Thats what this site is about?

Am not going to tell someone they are gonna be the greatest after a course ,because they are not.

What i will do regardless is tell the truth from my point of view,and in my experience they go on a course and think they can tile,they cant, unfortuanetly even the best teacher in the world is not going to show them nearly half enough to make them a tiler.

I dont tar everyone from the same brush and will give anyone a chance,what i wont do is blow smoke up peoples backsides after taking a grand of them and teaching them basics.

When i have had apprentices in the past i wont let them stick a tile on the wall until i think they are ready,and after a month they are nowhere near ready.

Have you ever attended a college mate?

 

[mz30]

Have you ever attended a college mate?

College yes,about 20 odd years ago had to go once a week for a couple of years,tiling course no,they werent about when i was an apprentice i dont think.

Think the citb apprenticeships are one week every 3 months or so now,while you are on placement but maybe wrong.

 

[diamondtiling]

College yes,about 20 odd years ago had to go once a week for a couple of years,tiling course no,they werent about when i was an apprentice i dont think.

Think the citb apprenticeships are one week every 3 months or so now,while you are on placement but maybe wrong.

So are you Ian McMahon from IDM Tiling that won the skill build competition in 2009?

 

[mz30]

So are you Ian McMahon from IDM Tiling that won the skill build competition in 2009?

No mate not me