how experienced are you?

[aussie dave]

hi all,

i`ve just been reading through a few of these threads and it seems that a lot of guys think they can go out there and do a 1 to 4 week course, then go out starting a tiling business.
i know i live on the other side of the world but tiling principles are the same any where you live. I have had over twenty apprentices work for me(four at present),
and i can definatly tell you that none of them would have the experience even after 3 years to run your own business.
If Joe public is shelling out good money to have a trademan like finnish do you think that some one withfour weeks experience would be able to replicate that?
In the end it only gives the tiling industry a bad name when there is a whole lot of inexperienced cowboys posing as tilers!!!!!!!!!!
I bet a highly experienced tiler over there would be able to make a rubbish load of money fixing up everyone else's **** ups.
Maybe you guys need to start setting up some kind of licence system to sort the men out from the boys!!!!
cheers aussie dave

 

[youngcam]

TELL YOU WHAT DAVE YOUR NOT WRONG THERE MATE!
Ive been at the game as long as you have mate and sometimes even for me its head scratcher.
I really dont know how some people have the balls to put themselves up for working in private houses using expensive products after 4 WEEKS(can you imagine the multitude of disasters that must go on every day),CHRIST.
Not to mention the embarrasment these people must feel when the jobs been ballsed up and they got to face there client

 

[gatty68]

what about people like me that have done DIY for years at friends and family and my own home and extension, just cos we aren't time served dont mean we are going to be rubbish we just want to learn a bit more and a change in career like me. I have been in manufacturing all my working career and worked with 'time served' sparky's fitter and maintenance people that are not worth a rubbish yet would tell me all the time ' WELL IM TIME SERVED' so to me its the individual and the brains he has that counts for a lot, yes i understand there are cowboys out there but even those are time served dont believe that just cos your time served you wont be a cowboy

 

[Concept PHT]

Here Here - straight to the point