Tiling makes me happy...yet unhappy :(

[Taggy]

Hi lads dont get all aggro on me.

Work in partnership with an ace tiler, i'm a plasterer by trade Fiborous to be exact, but he asked me to help him out on a bit price work he got after i finished prepping stuff up for him.

Why didn't i take up tiling? I bet there are days like plastering where its a hassle....but i honestly love playing giant tetris all day long, its actually very theraputic. I enjoy it more than my job......dont let the spreads know though, or i'll be getting grief for time!

I dont plan on taking up tiling now as its too late so i cant bodge anything up for you lot and get you more work, but i do wish i had of took this game up! Decent trade.

Fiborous is dying out now, and monkeys could do what the plastering game is asking for on sites these days, just needed a little rant and an appriciation thread for my tiler mates, cheers.

crack on chaps!

 

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

:welcome:to the forum i'am a plasterer who tiles, we make some of the best tilers as we can cope with sub straight's and are usually very good at trowel work anyway!

 

[Taggy]

Hello mate, very true i'm handy with a trowel, quicker than my pal for obvious reasons, but he's quicker with his trickier cuts, i just tile where ever he wants me to if he needs a hand mate haha.

When did you pick up tiling? It's joining mosaic and working out tennants weird patterns? that gets me, floor and stone etc its fine, i just wish i had my cuts down quick, you'd think i would working with fibourous etc, different traits though eh, don't get me wrong though i can produce good work. I'd just like to be at a standard to be on price.

In my own opinion price in tiling is much better than any plastering apart from EWI which i've had the pleasure of alot of latley....but being the great country britian is with its exceptional weather....its put a stop effect too that.

back on private work now and the amount of work i've got my mate is sickening, i'll say nothing to him though, so i thought i'd moan on the correct forum behind his back haha!

What is your majority of work you get mate?

 

[White Room]

Hi and welcome.....I tend to do the both but more tiling as of to date, plastering helps me with the preparation which goes a long way.

 

[Time's Ran Out]

I just tile and I hate plasterers:smilewinkgrin::smilewinkgrin::smilewinkgrin:

 

[Taggy]

hopefully only bad ones john? good ones must make your life alot easier eh ? I hate about 90% of the sparkys i've met or chased(no pun) around ...lets all state who we dont like .

 

[bugs183]

Hiya Tags.
No one likes the Sparky's, everyone's in agreement there!
Years ago the plasterers did the tiling as it was seen as the same trade.
It has it's duff days but on the whole, it is easier than being a plasterer, plus the customers like the tilers as they see finished results, good plasterers don't get the credit they really deserve.

 

[John Benton]

Sparks, plumbers, plasterers - first thing I have to do on a job is clean up as they leave all their rubbish everywhere :mad2:

 

[bugs183]

A sparky standing on a ladder doing light would not budge, we told him the tiles were being laid, so we tiled the floor around him.
Made him stay on his ladder for ages, what a plonker.

 

[Two-Trowels]

I was on a job a long while ago working with a plasterer when we had a visit from the architect - he walked round looking at things puffing on his pipe and when he came to us he stopped and said; ''I hate plasterers'' and walked on.

I called after him ''why do you hate us?'' he replied ''not you specifically, I hate all plasterers'' :lol:

 

[suave]

:welcome:

 

[Andy Allen]

i hate plasterers that keep telling my customers its ok to tile on to bonding........

NO ITS NOT...!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Pebbs]

I actually like plasterers, its plumbers I don't like.

Pebbs

 

[Dougs Third Go]

I actually like plasterers, its plumbers I don't like.

Pebbs

yes Lynn, pipe stranglers are the bane of my life:incazzato:

 

[Taggy]

hmm never once met a plasterer that has said its ok to tile onto bonding, as we know our craic with substrates however this is just my personal experience, i do know tilers do it though on price for council etc, few lads i got talking to were tiling over wall paper etc as the council said it was fine, flol.....would of walked off site there and then

 

[Andy Allen]

hmm never once met a plasterer that has said its ok to tile onto bonding, as we know our craic with substrates however this is just my personal experience, i do know tilers do it though on price for council etc, few lads i got talking to were tiling over wall paper etc as the council said it was fine, flol.....would of walked off site there and then

stick on here mate we've had loads of them..

 

[Tony73]

How about foreman??? yesturday went to do 1,1x3,7m terrace. Found strange surface, asked foreman what is it? He said it's special paint. Asked him to show me tin, so he did :mad2: