Bisazza - help needed

[White Room]

Good work there John

 

[ajc]

Might be worth chatting to the customer about their expectations for the spec of the finished job, and cost of the mosaics. Find out where they got them and see the display so you can see the standard they expect.

If you have been tiling for 3 1/2 years you have already got all the basic skills for fixing these. Rather than out source it, give PTS a buzz, do the course and cash in yourself. Im sure some of the forums sponsored courses could also help you, its just PTS is where I did my course.

Good luck.

I am tempted to do the course, trouble is it looks like its gonna be £500, plus accom, plus a weeks lost wages. I can't see a whole lot more customers spending this kinda cash, so I just don't know if its financially viable.

I'll see what the customer wants to do and take it from there. Thanks all for the advice, I'll post pics if I do go ahead.

 

[White Room]

You don't say what area your from ajc

 

[milan11]

There is only 3 basic rules for fitting mosaic - surface, surface and again surface.

As good is your surface as good is your final finished tiles.

Make sure your surface under the tiles is perfectly straight and smooth, then use small trowell - depend of thicknes of mosaic, for bisazza use 1-2 mm trowel and you can start tiling.
If your surface is good, soon you'll find out that fitting mosaic is one of the fastest and easiest tiling jobs ever.

There is only one really nightmare - epoxy grout.
If you get one of the two parts epoxy grouts - you'll cry on the job.
B/C of the epoxy grout, price for fitting mosaic is high, if you have ordinary grout - job is very easy and very simple.

Here are few samples of my previous jobs:

 

[White Room]

Cracking work mate, Bisazza mosaic trowels are 3.5mm, 1-2mm seems very small for mosaic though

 

[milan11]

Cracking work mate, Bisazza mosaic trowels are 3.5mm, 1-2mm seems very small for mosaic though

It depend of the thickness of mosaic, if your mosaic is only 5 mmm thick, trowel 3.5 mm might be too big.

But of course for 1-2 mm trowel your surface must be really good - plasterbord, and on the other hand - 3.5 mm trowel you can always hold under smaller angle, so you are right.

 

[ajc]

I'm based in Birmingham Whitebeam.

The job has been put off until August so I may well have time to do the PTS course.

This question is aimed at Timeless John, Davy G, CJones and all who have done the course - have you had enough Bisazza work since to justify the cost of the course and the weeks lost wages? Would be a wounder to spend the cash and miss a weeks work then never get another Bisazza job ever again!

 

[White Room]

It's not how many jobs you do, it's the fact you will know how to if asked. It maybe the only one you get this year but if you don't do it and get asked again, your'll be turning the work down