in your opinion's

[DHTiling]

you been playing with the lego again dave......lol

I watched it on You tube , so it must be easy hey.. or i could go do a 5 day course and learn any trade.. after all it is easy to do it that way ... :smilewinkgrin:

 

[Peter]

I always say that if I didn't learn a trade then I'd probably have been a painter & decorator. :lol:

 

[John Benton]

Really?

Build your own house

Bricky UK Ad - YouTube

Remember seeing this on one of the DIY shopping channels a few years ago

 

[Dan]

Haha the good old bricky.

 

[John Benton]

You seen it before Dan?

 

[Dan]

Hell yeah.

Shopping channels galore.

Laughable really, I'm sure it was quoted that brickies can even save time using it and it caused uproar on a bricky website when it first came out.

Tommy Walsh never said that again. Lol

 

[John Benton]

Hell yeah.

Shopping channels galore.

Laughable really, I'm sure it was quoted that brickies can even save time using it and it caused uproar on a bricky website when it first came out.

Tommy Walsh never said that again. Lol

I seem to remember the Irish guy showing you how to build a barbeque and Tommy Walsh backing him up saying how easy it was.

 

[Dan]

He endorsed it for a while, doing shows with them as an employee, and they didn't half bang on about that. He said a fair bit and changed his speil when he got noticed saying what he was saying.

It's quicker for DIY (IMO it doesn't mean the cement is bedded in right, they spread on both the wall and new brick they're about to place for a reason apparently) maybe but a brickie can lay many bricks an hour and is often paid / employed based on that fact and that fact alone. Might be an easy trade but to build a house to spec bang on first time every time 100's after 100's isn't easy.

Slacking just one hour one day can cause a whole window to be out and a job lost.

I'm sure for building BBQ's as a DIY it'd be handy if you've never laid before but I bet you 1 billion dollars that Walsh hasn't used once since he finished with the firm that makes/imports them.

 

[Colour Republic]

Every trade is easy to learn the basics and produce what is an acceptable 'looking' job but none of them are easy to master. If you think any trade is easy then that shows just how very little you understand them.

If the working trades were judged on a scale of 1-10 then most people working in that trade would average a 4 maybe 5 IMO, To me these are just jobbing tradesmen, until you fully understand the technical side of a trade and why you do the things you do and be able to spec a job to the highest standard, then to me you're not a true professional.

Granted some trades are less technical than others but even painting and decorating which is classed by many as an unskilled trade is highly technical to master, just as much as tiling is, sometimes more so. Some trades like painting and decorating, plastering, brick laying all get a bad rep because it is very cheap to set yourself up with basic tools to do the jobs and so it attracts more chancers than any other, I can assure you that all the trades can get very technical and require a huge amount of skill and knowledge to become a professional.

 

[Dougs Third Go]

I'd say slating/roof tiling is the easiest to learn.

 

[Aston]

the question has to be asked??
if its easy to learn, then is it a trade??

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[charlie1]

If you grade a trade, say tiling from 1-10 then anyone who is half decent with there hands can get on to the first level (1) on a week course, a few years pass and hopefully you have learned 2, 3 and 4 without making any career threatening mistakes, another few years and you could get to level 5 or 6 IF you try new things and develope your skill set, which will be joinery and plastering whilst improving the finer details of your tiling, you should be constanntly asking how you can make your own work better. By the time you have been doing all of the above for many years doing different types of tiling, (ie, bespoke high end tiling or low end graft working as part of a team) then you could go on to say level 7+... who knows, i been doing now for 6 yr and still find it as hard as i did when started... one thing changes though, you tile quicker and the results get sharper.

So whats the easiest trade to learn? depends on who is learning, I never seem to stop learning tiing but thts because im pasionate about it, someone else could have stop learning years ago!

 

[area tiling]

Painting ! Nothing hard or strenuous about it ! No disrespect to anyone

 

[Tony73]

Painting ! Nothing hard or strenuous about it ! No disrespect to anyone

exactly
, painting is easy, but not painting & decorating . Many painters don't do lining paper or wall paperand there is more stuff...

 

[Colour Republic]

Painting ! Nothing hard or strenuous about it ! No disrespect to anyone

Most people who pick up a paint brush don't have a Danny on how to prepare or the correct coatings to use on the countless different substrates that get painted.

Do you shake your head at a badly tiled job? Sadly painters don't have that luxury as everyday they would run the risk of breaking their necks. Painting is just coloured liquid slapped on with a brush just like tiling is sticking flat squares things to walls with sticky stuff.:mad2:

What is a more common sight in the UK, cracked and missing tiles OR peeling, cracked dog rough paint? I rest my case your honour