Tea Bag's round?

[Gazzer]

I did notice it was about 3 am when you wrote it !

 

[AliGage]

Insane!!

 

[Peter]

It may be that another section of the ' Tilers Forum ' has bit the dust !
No trusted advice !
No professional advice!
Just Mr Tea Bag giving advice !
And to those who think a business card is what it takes to be a professional then no wonder this trade is considered DIY.
I just wonder what all those customers think they are employing - because a tradesman it isn't .

I agree but what's the difference between a new member who's been tiling 6 months sending a Yell link and a **** poor website to an admin, and young Teabag? Seems a bit wrong discriminating against one person when there are probably a good number of others in here who have spent less time tiling than most have spent on the toilet.

Suppose it's back to the old time served vs course debate, when should you call yourself a tiler? When you've served four hard years or when you've done a four week course and put an ad in the paper? Does this mean apprentices shouldn't be allowed in the Arms either?

Oh dear, please don't mistake this for me sticking up for short course tilers as I believe in apprenticeships through and through :lol:


Edit, just see he was banned for whatever reason. 😳

 

[beanz]

He got banned!?! What's he done now? Lol

 

[Chalker]

What's happened?

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Seems like an infringement of the language rules in a public forum and he's in self imposed exile!
Unfortunately nothing too serious and he will most likely be back!!!!
Make use of the forum over the next couple of days and try to remember what it was like before 'best before dates for tiles!'

 

[cam_low]

Creased at that ffs

 

[TJ Smiler]

I agree but what's the difference between a new member who's been tiling 6 months sending a Yell link and a **** poor website to an admin, and young Teabag? Seems a bit wrong discriminating against one person when there are probably a good number of others in here who have spent less time tiling than most have spent on the toilet.

Suppose it's back to the old time served vs course debate, when should you call yourself a tiler? When you've served four hard years or when you've done a four week course and put an ad in the paper? Does this mean apprentices shouldn't be allowed in the Arms either?

Oh dear, please don't mistake this for me sticking up for short course tilers as I believe in apprenticeships through and through :lol:


Edit, just see he was banned for whatever reason. 😳

I done a four week course 8 years ago and it has only been in probably the last two - two and half years that i now not only call myself a tiler but actually feel like i know this trade. Some of these courses are rubbish, i learnt sod all on mine and in the area where i live there is centre turning out 20 or so a month of potential tilers.... I only know of one other guy around here who is still at it a few years later.

I only got good when i befriended a 'proper' tiler who was prepared to share his knowledge and advice with me and was happy to help me out on jobs. That coupled with incredible hard work, pride swallowing and providng a great service for 6 years has now at long last paid off and my name is out there and my reputation is solid enough for me to not worry about finding work anymore.

So i actually agree with you that the best way to learn this trade is by serving an apprenticeship, you just cannot beat hands on experience. Or you could do it the incredibly hard way like i did. The trouble is there is a million times more to this trade than i ever thought there was when i done the course and it's this missunderstanding of how in depth it is that cause so many of these poor sods who spend there money on a course only to end up giving it up because they aint confident enough with the trade or aint got the time or the money to learn it properly. Not all of them mind you but certainly most.

Just my opinion though.... And what do i know, i'm just a tiler :lol:

 

[charlie1]

Interesting, IMO, I'd say in the last few years there seems to be a growing divide between the course v time served tilers on this forum, I don't think it's always been here but did manifest at some point then developed through the years. My situation is pretty much mirrored by tg smiler above, course tiler and very proud of it although it's the little golden nuggets of information you find from the real tile masters along the way that make you! As for t bag, I wish him all the very best and although he gets mocked a bit on here, I think he will have a future in this trade! I don't understand why he was never allowed in to the arms though, that always puzzled me??

 

[TJ Smiler]

Cheers Charlie, the one area i can say that doing a course has been of an advantage to me is that it meant i had to find out all about the products, substrates, tools etc for myself, which meant that because i was researching all the time that i learned all the 'latest' trends and products and methods etc in tiling..... And this has in turn taught me to never stop learning about this trade