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Ian
You'll be fine mate. Most of the information you need will be on the forum already, do a couple of hours reading a night.
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You'll be fine mate. Most of the information you need will be on the forum already, do a couple of hours reading a night.
not me mate... I don't do the invoicing.... And I think the revenue probably feel about me the same way I feel about them.....
Why not look in the yellow pages and get hooked up with a few local floor screeders. Lots of floor screeds get tiled. You can get into lead swapping.... They screed your floors, you tile their screeds sort of thing.... I don't know many tilers that do this but I know lots of underfloor heating guys ha have this sort of relationship with screeders. And if you come across anhydrite give me a call and I will guide you through
No a tiler does not necessarily need to know screeding. If you want to learn screeding then it could add to your skill set and make you more attractive to prospective customers but no you don't need to know screeding..... However he/she does need to know screeds and how to deal with the many different varieties there are in the market... Unless you are going to just do walls of course then screeds become irrelevant.... And my advice... Don't do tiling for free.... By all means do it cheap but if you offer to do it for free you come across to a normal punter as desperate and unskilled..... You may be both..I don't know.. But you seem very keen to learn.... But from experience that is not the image you want even with small customers.... Always charge something iMO even if it just your petrol money.
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Mr T
yeh i suppose your rite... im not brain dead but also havnt had much experience at the actual tiling ive been standing there watching and doing the mixes, grouting etc but not much actual tiling but i feel i could go and confidently price up say a kitchen worktop and do a good job as long as everything goes rite lol
lack of experience does not translate to lack of value or lack of worth. There are plenty of experience tilers and pretty much every other trades who will charge a fortune for shoddy work. When you price that work top then price it for what it's worth and don't devalue your self or your work just because its the first time you've one it. Just make sure that when you do it you do I right and to the best of your ability.
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Gazzer
Day off, I thought you were not working ?
So you hand cards out and someone by chance says "yeah tile my bathroom tomorrow " Then what you going to do ? Tell them they have to wait until you know what you are doing or finish a course ?
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Ian
Friels, my mothers maiden name.
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Ian
I tell people it's Fernando, and I'm part Spanish, lol!
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Mr T
I know how slim the chance is but what have I got to loose accept business cards and a bit of cartlidge? if someone called me we would discuss what the job was and if it seemed like I couldn't do it I would refer them over to the lad im working with that way im paying him back with a job at the same time lol
Just been observing some of your posts Mr tiler. I think you should put invoices, advertising etc on the back burner for a bit. Not trying to discourage you at all. But learn to walk before you Leap out of the starting blocks and start sprinting. A bad job will bite you in the backside ten fold. You want to be a tiler? A good one. Then learn learn learn.
I describe us as artists. We're a finishing trade. To do it professionally i don't think you can just go out and start doing it self employed. You also need to learn how to run a business.
These short courses teach you nothing more than the concept.
I think personally id want to know exactly what im doing before i start taking peoples hard earned money.
I describe us as artists. We're a finishing trade. To do it professionally i don't think you can just go out and start doing it self employed. You also need to learn how to run a business.
These short courses teach you nothing more than the concept.
I think personally id want to know exactly what im doing before i start taking peoples hard earned money.
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Mr T
i know i don't know all about tiling at this moment in time but im more than confident of doing the smaller jobs... im not lookingto go self employed but a few small jobs would help towards the bills im falling behind and i don't intend on going it alone i will still be working with a professional tiler every day and the odd day doing my own work well that's how it is in my head and weather il even get any jobs until i start payin for serious adverts i doubt it lol
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