fast tiling

As my old man always says when asked by a customers what time he's going to work to "When i start losing the tools in front of me' it could be 4 or 7 o'clock.
As Bri says that's when you start making mistakes.
Saw your work at Martins, Deano, it looks fab, considering what you had to do to make it right. They are delighted with it.
 
Can't fault that Deano, why didn't you use rapid and grout same day? I'd have kicked you off the job for that :sofahide:

Seriously though, it looks spot on, I could never have got that lot down in a day, what prep did you have to do?
 
Floor looks lovely Deano, the only way I could have done it faster than you would be if i painted the floor white then just drew grout lines with a black pen...................thinking about it, you would have probably still beaten me, as I would have to wait for the paint to dry.

Are you sure you haven't just dry laid them! Only joking.

I would be over the moon to achieve such quality tiling in a day.
 
it was me and a lad we had to scrape all the plaster snots of first then give it a sweep with a stiff brush then i got the cordless grinder with the cup grinding disc to take off high spots then tree goes with a soft brush and then two coats of primer. started at 7.30 prep done for 8.30 cup of coffee or two started tiling at 9.30 packed tools away 2.45
and was at home having a coffee with the wife at 3.45
 
That is good going Deano, I said in a post from Ash that fast doesn't mean good but I also stated that slow doesn't mean good either..
It's pleasing when you can get a good run at a floor..
You will have made enough money from that floor to add a few tools to your ever growing makita collection..
 
Thank you for being honest and up front about this deano, connecting to the post you mention in the o.p... It clearly can be done and is done on a daily basis. Job well done and will look great once the chippy goes in to fit the skirting
 
it was me and a lad we had to scrape all the plaster snots of first then give it a sweep with a stiff brush then i got the cordless grinder with the cup grinding disc to take off high spots then tree goes with a soft brush and then two coats of primer. started at 7.30 prep done for 8.30 cup of coffee or two started tiling at 9.30 packed tools away 2.45
and was at home having a coffee with the wife at 3.45

Sod that, i go home at that time she would have me vacing up and polishing .
I will stick to my 4 oclock finishes, friday at 2 and weekends off 🙂

Also deano, say you charged £25 a m2 for it, i forgot how many m2 it was, but if its 30m2 thats £750 in a day.
You must be loaded
 
image.jpgimage.jpgimage.jpgI must be a lazy git......this took 2 days, and then the grouting on the 3rd day, but it was 100 yards from my house and I did nip home now and then.
 
im with Deano on this one ,its not how long you are there, its what you do while your there,speed comes with experience and a lot of folk on here tend not to agree with them with the exp,i class myself as a good tiler and also pretty fast with it,not as fast as i used to be but thats down to age and now bad knees but ill try and hold my own with anybody ,the bloke i serve my time with used to give me a slap if i tried rushing things at first ,my speed was slowly built up it doesnt come overnight,and i make sure my customers are happy before i take payment
 
Good going Deano, nice clean work too.

i remember getting flamed on here before for saying that I laid 12m in an hour and a half. Not sure why, any tiler worth their salt would have done that particular job in the same time.

Hard to beat a good run. served my time doing a lot of shop floors of usually 500-3000m2 so from an early age never batted an eyelid to 120m going down in a shift. With NI rates being a good bit lower than the mainland, we can't really fanny about and need to get plenty of metres fixed. None of this five days for a bathroom and two days for a splash back carry on.
 
im with Deano on this one ,its not how long you are there, its what you do while your there,speed comes with experience and a lot of folk on here tend not to agree with them with the exp,i class myself as a good tiler and also pretty fast with it,not as fast as i used to be but thats down to age and now bad knees but ill try and hold my own with anybody ,the bloke i serve my time with used to give me a slap if i tried rushing things at first ,my speed was slowly built up it doesnt come overnight,and i make sure my customers are happy before i take payment

How much you slowed down Brian, 10/20%
 
Hey hey peter! Took me bluddy 4 n half days for a splash and floor! Sweating constantly too. Mind u that was before i got introduced into real tiling
 
How much you slowed down Brian, 10/20% 
i would say lately im down 50% or not far off to what i could do at one time over the last few months,i have been diagnosed with artharitis in both knees an my god that slows you down a bit,i have good days and bad with it ,but always stick to my standards no matter how i am
 
i would just like to add to all to make sure you have your knee pads on no matter what or how small the job is ,i should have listened to that swine of a boss when i was younger
 
heres my take on this done plenty of contracting work and it comes down do you work to live or work to make money doing hotels the target for most was 2 bathrooms a day tiled and grouted 16 2m walls 2 2m floor so some would do the two a day. others 3 every 2 days so who was the best tilers?well no snagging no going back on any work spot on every room so they were all great tilers some worked to live .others worked to make as much as they could as they would never have that day again all great tilers just diffrent reasons for working .slow fast its the job you leave behind that makes the diffrence no more no less
 
OK i was reading a thread and was quite surprised at the attitude of some of the members when it comes to tilers that can get the m2 done quick time. the comments came thick and fast "if it was done that quick it must have been done wrong as in not back skimmed or it must be rough or a lie". now I'm not one to start an argument and i know that fast does not automatically mean good. but it does not automatically mean bad. and i know it is hard for some to conceive that a tiler can fix more than five m2 per day without it being complete rubbish but believe it or not some of us can. and to be honest slow is no guarantee of quality either. i will post some pics tomorrow of a floor i did today 36m2 kitchen, dining room, broom cupboard, hall, cupboard under the stairs, and cloak room. on to a power floated floor using 600 by 300 Eagle polished porcelain.


but for now here is one from the other day not exactly high end but not minging either






OK this is the floor from yesterday pleas feel free to point out the parts of the job where you would have used your superior attention to detail and finesse. I'm not sure i will be able to sleep tonight knowing that i have done the floor so fast that it makes other tilers feel inferior. and i think i may take it all back up and re lay it slower so i can feel like i have done a good job.


i do not think i am that fast and i was not trying to go fast on this floor it was a comfortable pace for me to work at. i did not rush and i did not cut corners just to bang it down quick time but i am obversely faster than some on here does that make me fast or them slow?? You say meticulous i say slow. You say attention to detailed i say milking it. You say finesse i say swinging the led.


i actual do not give a hoot how fast or slow other tilers are but it gives me the hump when slow tilers slate other tilers based just on the fact they lay tiles faster than they do.




Well done Deano, but for a man who doesn't give a hoot you have a lot to say about the matter! "Not trying to start an argument"......who are you trying to kid!? **yawn**


Your post yesterday was very diplomatic and read that you were simply trying to dispel a myth or mindset, yet in today's post you are casting aspersions and belittling other peoples working practices and ethos. Well done you. 😛rrr:


My finesse and attention to detail is evident throughout all of my work (including spelling & grammar by the way!!) :lol: :smilewinkgrin:
 
ah but do you need spelling and grammar to be able to fix tiles at any speed:sofahide:

No, but it comes in handy when dealing with well paid hoity toity customers who are paying me extremely well whilst I am slowly milking the swinging of the lead!! :thumbsup:
 
Deano, I applaud you for your pictures as there are so many who don't feel up to posting pics of their work and I can understand why! And I don't think there is anyone on here who would doubt the calibre of your work but come on man, get a grip m8, you could start an argument in an empty house lol. Do you feel inferior in some way?
 
This thread was always going to go this way.
I tried to joke with Brian to lighten the mood but even he didn't bite.
Here we go again..
 
Deano, I applaud you for your pictures as there are so many who don't feel up to posting pics of their work and I can understand why! And I don't think there is anyone on here who would doubt the calibre of your work but come on man, get a grip m8, you could start an argument in an empty house lol. Do you feel inferior in some way?

:boxing_smiley:
 
People like to dish it out but they get all upset when they get a bit back LOL

having a a go at someone with Dyslexia about there spelling makes you a real man thogh.

this tread was started as an argument but some of you are as slow as your tiling

if you think I am out of order good I am and I am just as out of order as the people slating a tiler they have never met and know nothing about.
 
Makes me laugh/cry when I think back to a school we were doing when I was a 3rd year apprentice. Was just getting to grips with the tiling so the boss threw me into the big open changing rooms with no obstacles and long runs. Probably about 300m of walls in all. I thought at the time he was just doing it to get me some good experience, but it's only now that I can see he was more shrewd than that. He had me doing about 25m2 of 8x8 Cinca per day and was paying me £150 a week. The second year apprentice on £70 a week was following doing the grouting. Nice wee earner for the boss, who was also there banging up 30ish+ a day. :incazzato::yikes:
 
People like to dish it out but they get all upset when they get a bit back LOL

having a a go at someone with Dyslexia about there spelling makes you a real man thogh.

this tread was started as an argument but some of you are as slow as your tiling

if you think I am out of order good I am and I am just as out of order as the people slating a tiler they have never met and know nothing about.

Deano, you truly are a very talented tiler...... I even said as such in the very first reply post in this thread!
But why you set out to try to start arguments is beyond me I'm afraid. I suggest if you have an issue with any member of this forum from this or other posts that you raise this in a diplomatic and timely manner. Starting a post with the sole intention of creating an argument spilling over from old threads is the exact thing that people have been trying hard to stop recently. Keep it civil and personal digs out please. Having a sense of and injecting some humour (of which mine you have clearly misunderstood despite smiley faces galore) into the forum is why many people still enjoy it here.
 

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