help please LOL

[mags]

I did the NETT course and it was fantastic , yes i had tiled before but id never had any formal training. Darren does indeed give u heaps of info and if listened to and studies it helps you no end.

I still need help and luckily the members of this forum are all a grat source of info and friendly advice, use this and LISTEN.

At this moment I am happy to tile just about anything, but I would need help fr wetrooms and advice on various substrates some of which id never heard of. Only yesterday I learnt of a new (to me) tile which has been around donkeys years.


Have fun

 

[beanz]

I did the Nett course too, and had never even held a tile, let alone put one on a wall.. Would i have been comfortable walking straight out of the course, and starting up? No. That's no reflection on the course, i just had no prior knowledge, and there's so much more to tiling than putting tiles up. If jobs were already boarded out, or skimmed nice and flat, i'd have been fine, but in reality they NEVER are. I'm learning all the time, and i expect that will always be the case. And then there's the matter of speed.... As Darren may remember telling me, i'm way too slow to make any money. That still hasn't changed, although i'm slowly getting there haha!

Do i think you'll gain anything from the 4 week course?? Probably not. You won't start learning until you're in the real world dealing with real situations. Doing the same thing over and over again for 4 weeks without the trials and tribulations of a real setting will gain you nothing imho.

 

[Danny@ Diamond]

I would have to slightly disagree with the last bit of the above post, for the following reasons.

On a 4 week course it is not a case of repeating the same tasks for 4 weeks, there is a huge amount of modules that a student should undertake.

It is also down to how the facility is set up, we have fully built block and rendered bays that reflect a very real life situation. They have to be prepared prior to tiling, using real fast setting renders / primers / rubbing blocks etc all of the things that you cant do on bays that are built out of wood. Our kitchen bays all have fitted kitchens / worktops and sockets, they also have mock up washing machine pipes and gas pipes to cut round underneath units.

I would agree that a lot of training centres that run 4 week courses are not set up and equipped properly to deal with such a lengthy course, hence the reason they repeat throughout the 4 weeks.

It takes a lot of planning and experienced tutors to deliver longer courses and it should not be an assumption that because a centre can teach someone how to stick a tile on a wall and apply some grout that this is all a 4 week course will teach you as well.

Do your research and visit as many training centres as possible before booking a course and make sure that you are comfortable with the facilities and tutors. Talk to the students whilst you are there and if possible arrange to do a day taster at the centre. Ask to see how the course is structured and look at the schemes of work that will form the structure of the course.

Good luck and all the best