The closest sponsors that do tiling will be Tiling Courses and Tiling training From Chase Tiling Academy and Construction Assessment Group and
The Construction Skills College Limited : Quality Training Courses in Plastering courses – Plumbing courses – Tiling courses – Electrical courses – Carpentry Courses – Joinery courses – Kitchen Fitting Courses – Bricklaying courses – Painting and Dec. Both reputable, Chase is in Cannock, and ConstructionSkills College is in Burslem (Stoke on Trent).
Chase has been with us since the forum started, their old NVQ assessor Ant used to be a moderator here and helped get the forum off the ground.
Neither have ever had negative feedback and have always had really happy customers.
Our sponsors aren't just anybody, we don't allow new training centre's on board (minimum 2 years old) and we do what we can to check them all out, and that's on all forums.
If they're a sponsor here, they're a good training centre. I couldn't imagine the amount of bad comments we'd get if we took on a poor training centre, even ones not sponsors get bad comments left about them.
I'd give them both a call, and if you can spend a day visiting them both (they're not too far apart) and simply make up your own mind from then.
There are a couple of other options that are not forum sponsors but in all the time they've been running we haven't really had any good feedback left (or bad for that matter) so I just don't think they're really that popular.
A short course is perfect for this, some knock them, others love them. But the truth in the matter is, as you say, he jut needs to learn the basics and some of the advanced stuff. And he probably doesn't need an NVQ (yet) and probably doesn't need the business advice that comes with a 6-weeker etc.
He'd be a perfect candidate for a short course.
