Tiling apprenticeship

[Time's Ran Out]

I was on £27.00 a week when I started...
(TJ was on 5 shillings)...

Always been self employed even as an apprentice!
Started on 61p an hour and after 18 months I was on £1.30 a yard.
At that time painters were on minimum of £100 per week.
My rent was £6/week.
My Dad was disappointed when I went into tiling but when he retired at 59 he came with me for 3 years and absolutely loved it - best tea boy there ever was!
It’s not all about the immediate gain but it has to be a decent days pay for a decent days work.
My son was on £200 a week when he started with me @ 16 - if he can’t earn you £40 a day and make your job easier then it’s not worth the hassle.
IMHO.

 

[widler]

£150 a week for a 16/17 year old is good enough,18/19 £250 ish, out of time £350/400 a week, pay them too much and they just want more and get greedy.
They earn you basically nowt for a year or two

 

[Dumbo]

Wisest words on here in a long time!




(...and money isn't the key)

Spoken like a true rich man

 

[kelvin]

Thanks for your replies so far, I’ve looked online and some sites say a tiler working for a company might get £12 -£13 an hr which similar to a joiner employed ,he wants to know if £200 a day is achievable or more than if your qualified and and at the top of your trade, if so I’m assuming it’s a self employed tiler?

 

[Waluigi]

Always been self employed even as an apprentice!
Started on 61p an hour and after 18 months I was on £1.30 a yard.
At that time painters were on minimum of £100 per week.
My rent was £6/week.
My Dad was disappointed when I went into tiling but when he retired at 59 he came with me for 3 years and absolutely loved it - best tea boy there ever was!
It’s not all about the immediate gain but it has to be a decent days pay for a decent days work.
My son was on £200 a week when he started with me @ 16 - if he can’t earn you £40 a day and make your job easier then it’s not worth the hassle.
IMHO.

That’s spooky- my Dad started working with me after he took voluntary redundancy at 55 and my son occasionally works for me. I pay him £40 and he’s 16. Upped his day rate by a tenner recently.

 

[Waluigi]

Thanks for your replies so far, I’ve looked online and some sites say a tiler working for a company might get £12 -£13 an hr which similar to a joiner employed ,he wants to know if £200 a day is achievable or more than if your qualified and and at the top of your trade, if so I’m assuming it’s a self employed tiler?

There are huge differences around the country. For a Tiler at the top of his game where I live, £200 would be a kick in the teeth.

It’s not about qualifications either. Not with tiling. Tiling is skill based.

 

[One Day]

Spoken like a true rich man

Define rich

 

[kelvin]

That’s good to hear that more is achievable based on your skill level and as you say,your charging for the quality & knowledge you provide and if £200 a day is a kick in the teeth he will be happy to know that, it will give him the desire to succeed after all it’s all about the money when you start out in order to get what you need but as mentioned before it’s not always about the money appreciate you thoughts

 

[Andy Allen]

My £27.00 a week was rubbish compared my mates, that were labouring on the sites earning over £100 a week.
Difference is most of them are still in dead end jobs, I've paid off my mortgage, and earn enough to have the odd Friday off....

 

[Boggs]

Define rich

Andy Allen by the sounds of it

 

[Andy Allen]

Andy Allen by the sounds of it

Not with 2 teenagers and a wife with a credit card.....

 

[One Day]

Not with 2 teenagers and a wife with a credit card.....

Try five kids, mortgage and being the only earner!

 

[NZ_Tiler]

It is a great trade to travel with. Better than many trades in that respect

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Try five kids, mortgage and being the only earner!

No kids at home.
No mortgage .
Still earning.
Ashes to be mixed in a bucket of adhesive to bulk it out!

 

[Spare Tool]

Well I'm surprised.. £200 a day, £50k a year is a kick in the teeth, think its very very optimistic tbh!!