TTA complains to BBC about tiling 'piece of cake' comments from DIY SOS...

[Dan]

Anybody else notice the date of the article is from the future? - spoooooky?!?!?!

 

[doug boardley]

well if "any fool can do tiling" NK is certainly highly qualified:lol:

 

[Dan]

One good thing will come out of this long-term.

DIYers will assume tiling is easy and give it a go. They tile their bathrooms, kitchens, conservatories. All the tiling fails within a year if not just a few months, and they DIYer will then realise they need a professional in to do the job correctly and to standard, and they'll save up, get on the phone to some tilers, and will never touch a tile themselves again unless they brush a few up in the shower.

Amen.

 

[Colour Republic]

Anybody else notice the date of the article is from the future? - spoooooky?!?!?!

TBH and I might got shot down here. I can't help but wonder that this is just a bit of self promotion by the TTA, anybody can do this, you write a letter then blog about it, or get one of your connections to write about it in their magazine. If it was being reported about on a national news wire then I would gladly congratulate them, but as it is the only exposure this has had is 1) on Natural Stone 2) On here 3) on about 5 or 6 other sites that are RSS feeds from this forum.

Did a complaint need to be made? YES. Is the peice promotional? In my eyes YES.

 

[united]

I have sent a link to this thread to Nick Knowles to see if he will respond

 

[mikethetile]

I totally agree with Rob about it being self promotion on behalf of the tta, they havent represented tilers yet so why start now

should a complaint be made .............no

its the wrong way to go about things and achieves nothing but getting the comment even more coverage

a humourous letter to the program makers about nk being the fool who thinks he can tile would have had more effect

the complaint will land on their lawyers desk to be dealt with and nothing will change

we know whats involved in tiling and thats good enough and any fool who thinks otherwise will soon learn the hard way

 

[The D]

I cannot understand the bashing The Tile Association gets for doing something good.it seems that they are dammed if they do and dammed if they don’t. You say they have not done anything for tilers so why start now. Just what is it you want them to do?

 

[Dan]

There have been loads of threads on this in the past mate. Were you involved last year in the elite threads? Take a look in there mate.

There's a really good tile association in there somewhere. They just need to give the fixers a bit more attention, and the suppliers and themselves (and their golf) a bit less - was the general findings I think.

Just think, if it was brilliant, it could have the daddy of a tile fixers directory (all paying members) and actually advertise to the general public (not in mags they are heavily associated with that are normally mainly trade only) in national mags, papers, even radio etc. There are hundreds of things they could be doing now to help stop people giving their work to 'bob the builder' instead of tilers.

I don't think any serious knocking was meant in any of the comments above.

 

[stu-180]

Funny enough me and my misses are really into this show, they done about a week solid of them the other month on some obscure channel, always make me laugh at their tiling efforts, I have seen nearly every single episode and when it comes to floors , they don't touch them !

If its anything more than a splash-back then they get the pro's into do it.

I watched that interior designer lady try and fix a few lengths of little 3mm thick glass mosaics (on webbing) with a 6mm trowel, she got in such a state and ruined the lot !
Ended up binning them all after she spent hours and hours trying.


Maybe Nick should have said - "Any fool can stick 6 little tiles above a sink"

To be honest though, he does come across as a laugh so he probably was just on a wind up anyway, he always says plastering is a doddle and then normally they cut a part with him messing it up.

 

[DHTiling]

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

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Spot on mate . .Nick Knowles who is he? no good at turd polishing I bet

 

[Dan]

Nick Knowles-it-all has replied to me via Twitter with the following informative information....

MrNickKnowles Nick Knowles
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@ContractorForum I also said havin a baby was easy and women make too big a deal - I compared it to a nasty paper cut - plainly I'm joking!

And he also gave TTA a nudge too with

MrNickKnowles Nick Knowles
Seriously @tileassiciation - diy SOS is an entertainment show not an instructional How To.You'll find that show being watched by 12 people

Not too sure what that last bit means, which 12 people watch what?

 

[DHTiling]

At least he replied..

 

[SandyFloor]

I assume what he meant by the 12 viewers thing that no-one watches proper instructional programmes so it has to be produced as light entertainment with a human interest element and humour.

 

[mikethetile]

it would be good if he was to give a more detailed reply on here

if it was tongue in cheek comment then he should say so