Hints and tips

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

Some good tips on here, I use an old base from a thermos flask as a template for soil pipes. But my best tip would be keep away from fast women and slow horses.:lol:

 

[Two-Trowels]

I haven't used a chinagraph pencil before,so are they accurate enough ie not too wide a mark

I didn't like them to start with, thought the mark was too big but, if you sharpen the end with a Stanley (like you would a pencil) they are brill, an essential for stone wet cutting.

I keep an ordinary pencil sharpener in my pocket, a couple of twists in that every now and then and it has a lovely point - don't push too hard (no need to) and the point last ages.

 

[Dougs Third Go]

on domestic jobs, first thing you carry into the house,,,your hoover! it puts customers mind at ease and relieves tension they may have about the state you'll leave their house in. Creates a more pleasant working environment

 

[Peter]

The green Berol fine felt tips are great. Only discovered them a few months ago. Prefer them to a pencil on most tiles now.

 

[Peter]

Here's one for cutting a sliver in a check, eg round kitchen sockets.

Run a second inner line up the wet saw and break the leg out with your fingers before snapping the rest. Means the thin leg won't break off when manually snapping.

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

Here's one for cutting a sliver in a check, eg round kitchen sockets.

Run a second inner line up the wet saw and break the leg out with your fingers before snapping the rest. Means the thin leg won't break off when manually snapping.

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Spot on Peter, I do just that

 

[CJ]

Make sure your water in your wash boy isn't too hot. :mad2:

Or Your'll melt the glue and they fall off. rrr:

Well.....it's been cold. :blush5:

 

[AMtek]

wear a hat to hold your pencil, saves putting it down every time you use it and having to find it again!

 

[Bubblecraft]

That's what your ears for lol

 

[Andy Allen]

That's what your ears for lol

but then you end up with the phantom pencil, its been behind your ear for so long you think its still there (when it isn't) when your at home watching the telly..lol

 

[Alan M]

but then you end up with the phantom pencil, its been behind your ear for so long you think its still there (when it isn't) when your at home watching the telly..lol

that often happens to me. some time the other way round too. sometimes il go into town etc and not realise its there. you look a total pilock like that. iv got a pile of half washed pencils beside the shower . last place iv realised they are there

 

[MTiler]

on domestic jobs, first thing you carry into the house,,,your hoover! it puts customers mind at ease and relieves tension they may have about the state you'll leave their house in. Creates a more pleasant working environment

And/or dust sheets

 

[MTiler]

Spot on Peter, I do just that

works a treat especially with thin metro tiles

 

[AMtek]

That's what your ears for lol

My ears are too far from my head so the pencil just falls out. I'm making myself sound like shrek!

A baseball cap is brilliant, stop dust getting in your hair, helps keep plaster out of your eyes when plastering a ceiling and i shouldn't say this but if you need to chop something with a grinder you can pull the peak down, look down and it keeps your whole face and eyes protected and you can throw a hat at an apprentice or labourer (or your misses) to show your displeasure about something without hurting them!

 

[Jeff the tiler]

Get a pair of painters bib and braces if you are doing a lot of wall work with metro or smaller tiles. The pouch acts as a fantastic spacer holder. CHest pocket great for phone.No more boxes of spacers which for some unknown reason always topple over and spacers everywhere!!!.Keeps your clothes clean as well. The best circa £12 your spend, and yours snickers remain clean at £50 a time. Got mine off ebay and they even had padded knee holders. Okay material will not last long on rough floors but cutting in a bottom row fantastic.

 

[Jeff the tiler]

Plastic overshoes. very cheap and saves having to take your boots on and off all the time on domestics. Customer appreciates your concern as well.

Raimondi plastic wedges or similar wooden wedges. cleans grout line 100% better than the edge of a bit of 2x1!!

 

[Jeff the tiler]

Last one. If working on a domestic and there is a bath with water. put your bucket under the tap. rinse off sponge using the clean water from the tap. all the discoloured water and residue goes into the bucket below and then empty the dirty water outside. you always are cleaning off with a clean sponge/cloth.

Microfibre cloths which i got as tip on here previously work wonders this way and clean off exceptionally well.

 

[macten]

I use scraps of cardboard the tiles come in to wipe excess silicone off my finger.

 

[Ian]

Phil Hobson mentioned in another thread that a credit card is good for scraping protective glue off the tiles, good tip

 

[charlie1]

If you put all the effort in at the start of the job, finding all your high spots, setting out, know every problem in the room... The rest of the job is effortless!

don't get caught out with a missed high spot or poor setting out.

 

[Ian]

One for Andy Allen, here's a couple of photos of my litter picker in action. 3.15m high ceiling, got the spacers out of the top row with out the H&S risk of using a ladder, lol!

 

[Andy Allen]

lol.....cant believe it actually worked...:lol:......im rushing out to get one in the morning..!!!

 

[macten]

Christ - I normally have to use pliers to get my spacers out!

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

Lol my good tip, use wedges.

 

[charlie1]

My fingers are killing me from pulling out spacers