Where's tea bag?

[Chalker]

Where's he gone? First bit of proper work and too tired to play on here.

come back matey!

 

[Gazzer]

He dont start until next Monday !

 

[Qwerty]

He's busy learning how to use his new tools!

 

[Rookery]

I have a vision of him having tiled himself into a corner using slow set :lol:

 

[White Room]

He's got alot of tools to play with now

 

[RDTiling]

Where's he gone? First bit of proper work and too tired to play on here.

come back matey!

i was was going to ask the same question yesterday. It was strange for him not to have posted!

 

[cam_low]

did someone send him for a long stand...

 

[RDTiling]

did someone send him for a long stand...

Lol - I've not pulled that prank on someone in a long time!

 

[Mr Tiler]

Sorry guys be bk on soon im set to go self employed on the 10th feb and no loan is coming through and also need to get as much work booked in as possible or im gonna get shafted by the jobcentre cheers.

 

[Sean SML Tiling]

Good luck ash. Try ringing agencies to see if they got something to get you started.

 

[prceramics]

the 1st two years will be hard buddy untill you get your name out there just keep at it , all the best

 

[Mr Tiler]

yeh ive been told that in order to get my loan i need at least the first 3 montrhs fully booked with work so thats out the question.... ive had to put the showroom off until the 10th of feb which is when i go self employed and being honest with the jobcentre does you no favours lol. any reason to try and stop your money thats all they are after. just got to go on the hunt for as much work as i possbly can get booked in so i have some money coming in called over 150 tilers in my area alone today didnt realise there was that many but they are everywhere so it looks like a dark and lonely road for the next couple of years. at least im not starting up in deabt i suppose but we will just have to see what happens from here on starting to feel the stress of finding the work but topped with the problem of not being able to actually do any work is very frustrating dont know how people are supposed to get on in life without breaking the laws in some way.

 

[Peter]

There's bound to be local squads doing commercial work that'd take you on self employed.

 

[Mr Tiler]

i called a couple of contractors they said i need o go to college for a year and get a tilers cscs card before i can work for them... called up one tiler and he gave me a lecture for ten minutes about how everyone thinks they can tile. ive already been through that stage mate dont need anther person havin a dig lol

 

[Peter]

Will the government do a scheme to give you your CSCS card free? I know there's a similar scheme here to try and get people back into work. It's definitely worth having as it'll open up a lot of doors and it'll be a lot more forgiving to learn on site rather than on private bathrooms.

 

[Martyn Leeds]

So in a nutshell its the same situation as it was 12 months ago.
Surely someone else mentioned college ages ago, and been un-employed that's the ideal time to get courses for free..

 

[jonnyc]

Ash this is just awful.
I think I can say that all we members are rooting for you.
i guess that the one stumbling block for you is that you probably get benefits to support you and your family and if you lose those whilst trying to make a living then you are trumped until you can cover those benefits .
But the fact is that you really want to do it.

 

[Mr Tiler]

strangely martyn it is not... i have had my cscs card about 4 or 5 months now but it i cant use it as a tradesman its only a labourers card. in a nut shell yes it is the same but what could i have done more martyn? beleive it or not the courses this crap government put people on are terrible i completed a course with them a few years back now which was basically a ridiculous 3 day driving lesson in a f.l.t and walked away thinking i could go off and be a fork lift driver... turns out what i done was a waste of 3 days as i cant use it anywhere at all and beleive me ive tried so that is the sort of quality you get from them mate.

 

[Mr Tiler]

and im not allowed to go on a 4 week tiling course as it is not coverd by the benefits i can only go on a 4 week course that is 2 weeks plastering, one week plumbing and one week tiling and it wont be enough as i know for a fact i already know what will be covered.

 

[Mr Tiler]

Ash this is just awful.
I think I can say that all we members are rooting for you.
i guess that the one stumbling block for you is that you probably get benefits to support you and your family and if you lose those whilst trying to make a living then you are trumped until you can cover those benefits .
But the fact is that you really want to do it.

yeh mate i think it is just gonna be a struggle and it hasnt gone to plan but iu can cope with the real world i hope... i am still booked to do the showroom so hopefully it will bring a fair bit of work if i can manage to impress with my tiling... if not i will go and jump off a building being the failed father i am!

 

[Chalker]

They don't make it easy to get off the dole!

 

[Martyn Leeds]

2 weeks plastering, one week plumbing and one week tiling and it wont be enough as i know for a fact i already know what will be covered.

This type of course would've helped increase your basic knowledge and skills that are sometimes needed for prep, removing toilets/sinks, boarding walls... all the type of stuff you've asked about over the last few months.

Chicken and egg though with needing work, but needing experience to get work.

But its usually easier to find work when you're in work - ie. Any work. Paid employment, whilst persuing dreams on a weekend/evenings etc. As in, some of the folk that decide on a career change etc, but have the option and a Plan B to fall back on. Instead of having 1 egg in 1 big basket

 

[Rookery]

Ash, how far are you prepared to travel?

 

[jonnyc]

yeh mate i think it is just gonna be a struggle and it hasnt gone to plan but iu can cope with the real world i hope... i am still booked to do the showroom so hopefully it will bring a fair bit of work if i can manage to impress with my tiling... if not i will go and jump off a building being the failed father i am!

Ash not keen on the last sentence.
your family will never have been prouder than what you are doing now.
I actually need to find one of my best friends who started me in tiling in first place .
unfortunately he is living rough on the street in Birmingham . I don't know exactly where but he is in a very bad way and I have to find him very soon.

 

[Mr Tiler]

Ash, how far are you prepared to travel?

the bluddy worlds end as long as i can get some work mate lol id travel an hour each way its just the cost of that travel and the car im in rite now i dont know how long it would last lol