qualified tilers

[charlie1]

And then you get tilers that can be both :smilewinkgrin:

yep, agree

 

[jonnyc]

I have no level of qualification at all but I appreciate those that do have it.
i guess it depends on whether you perceive a qualification makes a difference as to whether you get work for having this badge or not.
this is actually a very interesting question.

 

[DHTiling]

Tiling for what seems ever and not got Zilch quals.. but does that mean i know nottting aboot tiling :lol:

 

[charlie1]

An argument could be made for a tiler with qualifications, that they have nothing to prove, so no matter what standard of work they do, it must be good as they are qualified. If i was hiring a tiler and given the choice to see there qualifications or there last job, i know what i would pick!

 

[jonnyc]

This could turn out to be the best thread ever posted .
i have always thought that you are are as good as you are, regardless of qualififications in our trade.
i need to be careful here before I post further .

 

[beanz]

And then you get tilers that can be both :smilewinkgrin:

And for every one of those, you get 50 that can do neither. :-/

 

[Spud]

I have L2 L3 nvq wall and floor tiling ,I also have a certificate of experience from the British chamber of commerce which was needed to apply to register to work as a tradesmen in Germany in the early 1990s this entailed showing you were a bonafide tradesmen by providing evidence of where you trained and who by ,listing all the companies I had worked for and showing invoices and payslips from tiling companies, I also had to provide proof of advertising, best thing for me is the fact 2 of my children are both in their twenties and on their birth certificates it states fathers occupation as floor and wall tiler
I look at some of the lads that have worked for me over the years and have gone on to be tilers in their own right ,
most after a year can tile to a reasonable standard on ceramic work and start making money on price ,when this happens they start gaining in confidence and believe they are worth as much as the lads that have been tiling 5 years and sometimes do produce more work ,the biggest problem is they still make lots of costly errors where the more experienced guys dont, I know this is a generalisation and there are gifted individuals who are mustard after a year but and its a big but after a year they still need bottle feeding to a certain extent whereas after 3-5years they dont and can cover anything you give them

 

[The D]

I get that there is no real need for them other than for CSCS purposes and I know that having them dose not mean you are any better at tiling than someone without them. In fact some of the tilers that have no qualifications are the ones that have so much knowledge and so much skill and have developed this skill over decades of hard work. But when someone that has no concept of what that actually means asks are you qualified it is nice to be able to say actually I am.

This may go down another path but we are always saying this industry needs to be licensed to protect us and Joe public from the shady characters in the industry but who would the licences be given out to would it be the ones that can prove that they are qualified with there silly bits of paper or would it be the ones without the silly bits of paper??

 

[The D]

Tiling for what seems ever and not got Zilch quals.. but does that mean i know nottting aboot tiling :lol:

YES :lol::lol:

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

As my thread inspired this thread I would like to say I was by no means "polishing my buttons" just stating that these quals don't exist anymore and that in itself is a crying shame. I for one am proud of my background in this industry.

Without proof of my qualifications I would not have been awarded the CSCS Gold supervisors card or my CSCS Gold Heritage card, and I would not have been considered for the Master craftsman accreditation. In short I have got the bits of paper, but far more relevant, I can do the bl00dy job.

So no, a piece of paper is not the mark of a tiler, but I can tell a good fixer just by talking to them, we all know who we are, and what we are, and where we fit in on the scale. Let us hope this trade of ours is some day respected as it used to be.

 

[MTiler]

In the end the proof is in the pudding.

 

[nybor62]

well i think im a brilliant tiler . infact i know i am , so there

 

[Dougs Third Go]

iv'e got nowt .....lol

however ive been tiling since i left school at 16 and im 47 on sunday.....

so dose 31 years of tiling count for anything, or is a piece of paper all you need to be a qualified tiler..?

pretty much the same as me Andy, I do have a HNC in Building Studies though, not that it's relevant to tiling:lol:

 

[On one]

why is that m8 ??

At the time of the on site assessment I had only had my NVQ2 less than a year and was only doing Social Housing work(3 x 150mm x 150mm courses in the Kitchens and Bathrooms,up to the ceilings around the bath if it had a shower)...not exactly very taxing to say the least. The paperwork involved while being very wordy and lengthy had very little relevance to producing quality work.

 

[Tony73]

And I........ I can do mitred corners :hurray: :lol: