fast tiling

[Peter]

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.

 

[Stef]

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%

 

[Spud]

Deano the floor looks great ,I bet you wish you had a couple of those every week

 

[Mr Tiler]

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

 

[Brian the Tile]

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

 

[Brian the Tile]

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

 

[Rizzle from the Portizzle]

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

 

[Qwerty]

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:

 

[Brian the Tile]

ah but do you need spelling and grammar to be able to fix tiles at any speed:sofahide:

 

[Qwerty]

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!!

 

[charlie1]

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?

 

[Stef]

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..

 

[John Benton]

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:

 

[Andy Allen]

Wheres the pop corn.....im going to enjoy this..lol

 

[The D]

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.