Training where's best?

[slambert65]

Looking to retrain and get away from my current trade so looking for somewhere to learn. Maybe do a taster course first then a more comprehensive course after that. Any advice would be greatfully received! Cheers Sean.

 

[JLM Tiling]

Hello mucker and welcome to the forum!! I was in the same boat as you about a year ago, was a stonemason and had done my five years at college doing wet trades so I had done a bit of tiling and had enjoyed it. Anyways after one too many freezing cold winters in the middle of a field with a pile of rocks and a drawing i though to myself hey there's gotta be more to life than this! And as a typical builder I thought tiling was easy! So so wrong! But as a venture that one can fairly simply get set up as a one man band it seemed a good choice. Anyways as for training I was with Diamond but two weeks in we turned up on monday morning to find the guy had packed up shop and done a runner! With a couple of grand of my money! That was a bad morning even by monday standards! Anyways got on the phone to Able Skills. They were top about the whole situation and let me do the last four weeks of the six week course in fact i was in their accomodation that very night and in the workroom tuesday morning. They are very good, no doubt about it. It's sometimes hard to get as much face time with Max and Terry the two instructors because it is quite busy but there's a reason why they're busy! Its very go go go with the stuff you do and I felt like I was getting to try everything I needed to. I left the place feeling incredibly confident with myself and my skills and I felt like I knew everything! Then I checked this site out and realised that on the theory side I knew about 5%! They do focus on the hand skills which makes sense, you can learn the theory in your own time. Personally I'd recommend the six week course, you cover everything and it'll take you that long to get up to speed with your hand skills. and you need to be good before you start charging lets face it. So yeah check them out, like I said top company, top instructors and the tea and coffee is free! And seriously get into reading stuff on this site, its helped me out so many times, i'd be lost without it. So much information on here it is unreal! I now spend far too much time just trawling through the threads to find out more! The missus hates it! Anyway mucker you're in the right place, its a good start, all the best to you

 

[slambert65]

Thanks for the info mate...Looks good on here.

 

[JLM Tiling]

http://www.tilersforums.com/tiling-forum/13313-all-questions-i-asked-when-i.html

Dont know if that link will work but if it does then there's some good basic stuff on there. I copied it and saved it onto my desktop for easy reference. Worth checking out mate

 

[Del W]

Ableskills (sponsor on the left) based at Dartford, so easy for you to get there. Welcome to TF.

 

[Gall.B]

:welcome: I would try and get hooked up with an experienced Tiler in your area, will learn far more that way experience you cant buy imho.

Whats your current trade Sean?

 

[slambert65]

IT but I've done some basic tiling in my kitchen etc..Pretty good with my hands and DIY around the house. Rather do things myself than get someone in. Started out as an electricians mate and spent a lot of time making good.

 

[Daz]

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Daz