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[Ajax123]

oh rite lol yeh everyones gotta start somewhere i got me business cards and a day off tmoz so gonna go post a few around and mite pop down the tile shop and have a browse

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

 

[Mr T]

is screeding something a tiler must know would you say? yeh i would do any tiling for free atm tbh i just want as much experience as i can get as im looking to go self employed within the next 6 months but i don't wanna end up on rouge traders lol

 

[White Room]

Just stick with the tiling for now mate, don't overload yourself and take your time.....

 

[Ajax123]

is screeding something a tiler must know would you say? yeh i would do any tiling for free atm tbh i just want as much experience as i can get as im looking to go self employed within the next 6 months but i don't wanna end up on rouge traders lol

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.

 

[Mr T]

lol yeh mate sound

 

[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

 

[Ajax123]

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.

 

[Mr T]

true mate im just lookin forward to the first time i turn up at someones door and im the tiler not the skivvy haha

 

[Gazzer]

oh rite lol yeh everyones gotta start somewhere i got me business cards and a day off tmoz so gonna go post a few around and mite pop down the tile shop and have a browse

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 ?

 

[Ian]

Here you go, my address goes in the bottom left box, everything else is self explanatory.