new tilers, kneepads, wear them!

[Mr Tiler]

probably 30 odd years without ​kneepads Ash..

how old are ya now doug? no wonder you have bad knees that's mental I cant go an hour on me knees without pads on or im throbbin all night

 

[Dougs Third Go]

how old are ya now doug? no wonder you have bad knees that's mental I cant go an hour on me knees without pads on or im throbbin all night

just turned 50 last month..

 

[Mr Tiler]

id stick to the walls from now on mate maybe teach someone the floors or get a reliable tiler to do the frloors for ya

 

[jonnyc]

Doug I'm really sorry to hear about this.i think we are about same age or you couple years younger.
ive been told a year ago that I have to either have left knee replaced or break to realign which must be similar op to yours I imagine.
mine is cartiledge and ligament lack of and damage .
i have put it off for a year and it's getting too much but I can't bear thought of maybe not being able to carry on in same capacity as I could before. But really I have probably made things worse by putting off and I know I have to make a decision now in next month .
i have to get done whether retire or not .
my decision is to grow my business and just run it and see what happens.
we just have to get on with what we've got but I am very worried and know exactly how you feel right now.
hope your decision works out.

 

[Stef]

Jeezo Doug, not a good predicament to be in.
im sure you will find something to do, salmon season starts on the 15th, :hurray:

 

[Dougs Third Go]

id stick to the walls from now on mate maybe teach someone the floors or get a reliable tiler to do the frloors for ya

that can't happen fella, who does the bottom cuts?, besides, what you lose on the walls (financially) you gain on the floors, (usually). It's not a "pity me" thread, more of a "heed me" thread, if that makes sense.

 

[Dougs Third Go]

Doug I'm really sorry to hear about this.i think we are about same age or you couple years younger.
ive been told a year ago that I have to either have left knee replaced or break to realign which must be similar op to yours I imagine.
mine is cartiledge and ligament lack of and damage .
i have put it off for a year and it's getting too much but I can't bear thought of maybe not being able to carry on in same capacity as I could before. But really I have probably made things worse by putting off and I know I have to make a decision now in next month .
i have to get done whether retire or not .
my decision is to grow my business and just run it and see what happens.
we just have to get on with what we've got but I am very worried and know exactly how you feel right now.
hope your decision works out.

exactly the same Johnny, exacerbated now by not wearing the pads.

 

[Mr Tiler]

yes mate good thing for someone like me to see doug its another addition to the great site that this is! I hope you find a way to make it work fella 😉

 

[CJ]

You could become a Gigolo Doug.


Mmmm, maybe not. Not a big call for a Ginge gigolo. That, and I've seen ya pics. 😉

 

[jonnyc]

Doug you must not beat yourself up about it.what's done is done.
i know a couple of tilers mid fifties who have never worn knee pads and they seem to be ok .
luck of the draw sometimes.
i know what you're thinking.
my knee is result of early teen ligament problem from sport and in those days even though I was going regularily to a children's hospital I never really got any help.
Ligaments just got looser and looser and because the pain was not there any more just left it and then went and took up tiling of all professions which is as crazy as you not wearing knee pads.
i am blaming myself now but it's done and people in positions like this just have try and keep going forward.
i tell you one thing I will and have been doing more of is floor restoration .
use my knowledge and get on the end of a vax or scrub machine and let a younger lad get down there.
there is good money in stone floor cleaning .just a thought .
plenty of people doing it but not many who really know what they are doing.