tiling as a career

[White Room]

you will find the best tilers arent in it for the money, tiling is a tough game to make it pay, you will have loads of people only telling you about the good jobs but in this country we have a lot of housing built cheaply after the war , tilers in the uk face problems that other countries dont have to deal with , out of level floors, poorly plastered out of plumb walls and a largely unregulated building trade for the past 35 years(loads of rough work done cheaply for the lowest price ) ,tilers on the continent tile on perfectly flat self levelled screeds , walls plastered with plumbed plastering grounds all done by qualified regulated builders, in this country you are up against it from the start ,it will mean if you stick at it you will become a skilled tiler able to straighten out walls, laytex floors and be really good craftsman but if you are looking to get rich quick you will be disappointed

Good post Gary, many years ago we were doing render in some shower rooms for the tilers and everything had to be spot on. All shower areas were exactly the same size and plumb, it took alot of time and expence rarely see it now.

 

[P'boro tiler]

ive been given newly boarded walls to tile onto that are out by 20mm over a metre!!! and the plasterer got paid! wtf :rant:

 

[hillhead]

Tiling is more of a battle nowadays with the rough work work left by builders and slabbers(plasterboarders).Iv seen some rough ones for sure,some new houses are like houses built 30 years ago,out of plumb,out of level etc !!