Old times reality check.

[Dougs Third Go]

i totally believe you Phil not that i could do a 20 m2 bathroom with boxed in area etc. I would imagine he walls would have been prepped though to get that amount of meterage?

in those days charlie, you could spread your walls and hold a pack of tiles and boosh boosh boosh, far quicker than the larger format tiles that are commonplace now.

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

I was only pulling your leg Phil, it must've been a post where you said it

It was Doug, I also had the saying, "I might be slow, but I'm rough", again tongue in cheek. This trade has changed so much, unfortunatly not for the better. There are people calling themselves tilers, that I would not trust to do my grouting, very sad, but very true.:mad2:

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

As Doug says, we used to have a stack of 6"x6" under our chin at least one square yard (36 tiles). Bottom half tiled before dinner, top half after, grout polish, done every day.

 

[DHTiling]

I've never ever ripped any of these off, or even seen any, must be because I'm only 23 :lol:

23 .. fricken nora , you must have had the block of flats on ya paper round :lol:

 

[Dougs Third Go]

23 .. fricken nora , you must have had the block of flats on ya paper round :lol:

only thing Bri's ripped off are his velcro leather hot pants...

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

Bri did look good in that photo though.:yikes:

 

[DHTiling]

Bri did look good in that photo though.:yikes:

PHIL!!!!!!!!

You will be swapping your T&S journal for this soon :lol:

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

PHIL!!!!!!!!

You will be swapping your T&S journal for this soon :lol:

I will stick to TSJ I think Dave.:lol:

 

[Dougs Third Go]

I will stick to TSJ I think Dave.:lol:

is that Trans Sexual Jizz?...

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

is that Trans Sexual Jizz?...

Could well be Doug, but I seem to remember you having a knowledge of Canal street Manchester. It caused a bit of a fuss on here, with some closet peeps I think.:lol:

 

[DHTiling]

T'ouche Phil :lol:

 

[The D]

Fix and grout a 20m2 bathroom in a day, aye allreyt,come on lads,give me a good example

The tiling in these bathrooms 14-18 m2 took one day or less each. We would tile a plot per day some times more.
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[DHTiling]

The tiling in these bathrooms 14-18 m2 took one day or less each. We would tile a plot per day some times more.
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members!

Welcome to the REAL world of tiling... yes you have to do it and yes you do it.

 

[Diggy]

Mrs was sorting out the old photos the other week and came across this one. It was one of the first floors I was let loose on , on my own. The guy who taught me got a contract with a conservatory Co and he let me do all the work on it. It was great then , 4 choices , 8 x 8 and thats your lot , this was one of the choices , about 24 yrs ago this was taken.

I miss the Hexagon/Octagon and dot stuff , think it looks great .

Diggy

 

[Diggy]

That was tongue in cheek doug,:lol: I was never rough. I was fast though, And yes with 6"x6" I did a full bathroom (18yd2) in a day every day on my new build sites, grouted polished. I even got in a half tiled bathroom as well some days. I kid you not, good money back then. Different game all-together.

Anyone who doubts this is a fool, I can bring people on here to confirm this was the norm back then.

Quite , my record was a small room on a hospital ward , 23m² 6x6 by 1pm grouted and polished.

For those who weren't around then , the explanation is ......... Universal edge.

Diggy

 

[bugs183]

[h=2]

Old times reality check.[/h]

hang on 40m2 kitchens, christ, big kitchens, come on bugs ?​

Yep easily!
St Margarets hospital in Birmingham. It was a massive looney bin. Each ward would have a huge kitchen, basically four walls with nothing in it. (40m2 on average).
You'd turn up plim a line around the room, cut a gauge stick, then set your h-trim to that. No bottom cuts.
Then get tiling! 6'x 6' as the lads say, you'd grab a handful of tiles, stick it with Bal Wall, no spacers needed.
Done and grouted by four, dead easy!!!

 

[Diggy]

Started my career tiling Naval ablutions with pilks Autumn fawn on the walls and surefoot and coving on the floors , great days. My saturday morning job was to grout the floors.

Diggy :0)

 

[bugs183]

Pilks had some exciting tiles then!!!!
But considering how basic everything was, very little choice in adhesives, grouts, nothing primed, most tubbed adhesives on walls, Bal CTF2 if you were doing a rendered shower room...very little went wrong. If you were a good tiler they stuck!

 

[Diggy]

Ahhh render , I miss those days , bucket of CTF3 , no battens needed , they just hung where you stuck them , great stuff.

Diggy

 

[Peter]

Its good to get on a big open space nowadays. One I remember from a couple of years ago were school changing room walls. 40m 8x8 cinca with no cuts top or bottom working off lathes tiled in two days. The annoying thing was that I was just coming to the end of my time so was earning £40 a day. Think I made the boss a few quid on that job after four changing rooms. :lol:

 

[bugs183]

He did alright out of you then!!!!

Did the loos in a huge distribution centre in 8'x8', they are a great size to work with! 100's of meters with H-Trim bottom and suspended ceiling top, perfect unskimmed plasterboard walls, heaven!!!!

 

[afright]

Was amazing how many metres could have been fixed in a day 20 years ago when it was 6x6 and not large format rectified. I know old tilers who could have fixed and 2grouted a 20m bathroom in a day.

Did the Mc Carthy Stone retirement flats in the 80s bashed out a flat a day 27yds2 grouted with 6x6 was earning more then than today but tax was 33% then and what about the old cameo tiles those were the days not a lot of heavy lugging.

 

[afright]

And as for CTF 2 wasnt that a pain if you had to chop out a damaged tile sometimes you would end up taking out a dozen tiles because that stuff was so hard you just get to the last bit and you chip the next tile :mad2:,no angle grinders with diamond blades in them days.

 

[Dougs Third Go]

Could well be Doug, but I seem to remember you having a knowledge of Canal street Manchester. It caused a bit of a fuss on here, with some closet peeps I think.:lol:

:lol:, was that not Nick? (Leatherface)

 

[DHTiling]

I remember old peterlee court house , did male toilets , 44yds 6x6 done dusted by 3pm
Bing bang bosh. Those were mad times.

Contract work was in and out. Hated it but it paid bills.