Big Up this forum

[Dan]

Afetr being in IT for (lots of years) and being slagged off by my peers and collegue , who were scared id move on faster than them. By competitors who tried to win my business I was glad to be made redundant whne the company went bust.

So I chose to be a tiler went on a course (I had tiled many times before for friends and family). Then I joined this forum.

SO far ive had hods of advice free of charge from complete strangers even in my area. Ive even had a local well established tiler visit me show me his work , come with my on jobs to help quote and give me more help in a few weeks than I had in a lifetime of IT.

Id urge any new guys to ask the daft questions , the only stupid question is the one that wasnt asked.

Not enough space to list all the people whove messaged me help but
TimelessJohn youre man of the Month for me mate :8:

I mix with all the trades and genuinely find the tilers (ref peeps here) to be the most open, friendly and helpful. Professionals happily giving DIYers help for no financial reward, and professionals advising and helping other professionals who could even be viewed as competitors! I have only observed benefits: forum prof tilers physically doing jobs together, DIYers getting the profs in before they really scramble up or completing their projects with your advice. The trade of tiling setting is reflected in a massively positive light here. I have many books on tiling, wall and floor construction and have done a fair bit myself, but learn something new every time I log on here. Thank-you forum peeps.

Thank you soooo much. And thanks to everybody else that replied, I just thought these two contributions took a bit more time so I 'multi-quoted' them.

For the very reason you both replied, I made this forum.

This if actually the Third tile forum I put online for the UK Tile Forum, but both others were for training centre's I was involved with and it didn't warrant what could be done, and has been done with tilersforums.com.

Since then we've seen the TTA forum close, and BAL attempt to make something similar.

The difference is with this place, we're really not selling anything at all. We get sponsorship based on the activity on here, which is crazy compared to even popular IT forums I post on myself. And although more will come in the future, there will be no comparison as this place really does do it all, and for free.

Not only have we launched this and we have ultimate moderator-power and man-power, we've also launched a whole host of related tile websites providing at the very least links to suppliers etc (Broken Link Removed, www.tilingcoursescompanies.co.uk, www.protilingtools.co.uk, etc), but at the most, almost something similar to this but newer (www.tilerstilingtiles.co.uk).

A big big thanks to those that contribute once again. The last offer for a donation to the place was just two days ago, they come quite often, and I never take them. I tell them to go find a few threads they can help with, even if they're repeating what said already (but sort of confirming another tiler agrees, so not useless as some people assume) and they'll be doing more than any pound note can do.

Thank you kindly.