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tomthetiler
At last found some time to say hello been very busy since returning from North East Tiling course, the course was first class especialy if you have some ability with your hands. Learning how to compromise when setting out your starting point was worth its weight in gold. The theory is the thing that allows you to sell your self showing the customer that you know what your talking about. Darrren has got it right.
I went to quote on a job(Edinburgh central) the customer wanted to put a large format porcelain tile (£500 worth) above the bath wall which had ceramic tiles on already. I pointed out that as the wall was plaster that the load bearing capacity was only 20kg /m2 and her porcelain tile was heavier than this threshold. She gave me a quizical look and explained she had already had two other quotes, the first guy was going to tile straight on top of the old tiles the second was going to tile using her B&Q wall tile adhesive after removing her old tiles. I then had to explain that the porcelain tiles were vitrified and did not allow for moitsure to evaporate and both quotes were for very unsound practises.I just made the comment about the baby bath positioned underneath and refused to do the job. I did however leave a card and asked her to do some research on the net and if she wanted me to quote for the job once she had a lighter tile I would be more than happy to oblige. Three days later she phones back delighted to have someone with a bit of knowlege and said she would be getting new tiles and asked when I could do the job.
The nice thing about this is that being armed with the technical info, I may have prevented a horrific accident (baby in bath maimed by falling slab of porcelain comes to mind).
So if you are tiler and have not been on a course maybe you should start thinking about going and seeing Darren at North East Training. Maybe you could make some good money and in the process prevent an accident.
I went to quote on a job(Edinburgh central) the customer wanted to put a large format porcelain tile (£500 worth) above the bath wall which had ceramic tiles on already. I pointed out that as the wall was plaster that the load bearing capacity was only 20kg /m2 and her porcelain tile was heavier than this threshold. She gave me a quizical look and explained she had already had two other quotes, the first guy was going to tile straight on top of the old tiles the second was going to tile using her B&Q wall tile adhesive after removing her old tiles. I then had to explain that the porcelain tiles were vitrified and did not allow for moitsure to evaporate and both quotes were for very unsound practises.I just made the comment about the baby bath positioned underneath and refused to do the job. I did however leave a card and asked her to do some research on the net and if she wanted me to quote for the job once she had a lighter tile I would be more than happy to oblige. Three days later she phones back delighted to have someone with a bit of knowlege and said she would be getting new tiles and asked when I could do the job.
The nice thing about this is that being armed with the technical info, I may have prevented a horrific accident (baby in bath maimed by falling slab of porcelain comes to mind).
So if you are tiler and have not been on a course maybe you should start thinking about going and seeing Darren at North East Training. Maybe you could make some good money and in the process prevent an accident.
