Why did you /

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

Personally enter or get in to tiling , what were your reasons ? did you migrate from another trade,? did the bro -inlaw need another pair of hands ?, money ? WHY ? /HOW ?,

 

[Andy Allen]

for me it was a case of just wanting to learn a trade, i didn't just want a dead end job, when i left school, i went to the job centre and there was a job for a trainee tiler, i went for an interveiw and got the job...£30.00 a week was my first pay packet, hated the job at first as it was mainly labouring, but stuck at it and started to enjoy it once i started fixing..

so it was more luck than anything eles, if there would of been a job for a trainee florist, i could of been doing that now, and talking to someone on a florist forum...lol

 

[widler]

Migrated from plastering,(did tiling when serving my apprenticeship was part of job) still plaster, but i hate skimming boards, i adore suction when skimming and love roughing on, hate drylining, although much quicker than roughing.
Also my shoulder is a bit buggered, thought id give em a rest a d bugger my knees up as well.
Oh and its not as hard graft

 

[charlie1]

Migrated from an IT background, i like building stuff, databases or tiles, building is what i like. I'm a perfectionist control freak.

 

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

I suppose i should say mine :lol: i came from plastering as when i did my apprenticeship tiling was part of our trade , but then you soaked tiles in buckets of water then as well :yikes:, anyway i joined a swimming pool finishing company and trained to plaster pools with marblite , then learned to mosaic tile pools and stuff when not marbliting ,it was better money and pool wall's seemed smaller than rooms anyway i loved it and never wanted to do anything else .

 

[Bubblecraft]

Was just another notch I needed on my belt

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

The school I went to had a choice of lessons in practical skills either metalwork and mechanics or woodwork and bricklaying, I chose the latter two, and seemed well suited to both, especially bricklaying I always came top in the exams, my teacher was ex building trade. He advised me to go into the building game, we had covered parts of sand and cement tiling as part of the course, and I found it more interesting than bricklaying. I started my 5yr apprenticeship at the age of fifteen, been doing it ever since.

 

[White Room]

My background was plastering but had done tiling in when I was 19 but drifted a bit betweent the 2 trades, disappeared into the Army for 3 years then continued when I came out with the plastering/dry linning and for some unknown reason drifted back into tiling which had changed quite alot, materials etc so was another learning curve but I do enjoy it more than plastering.

 

[area tiling]

I was a technician in a medical factory for ten years, I was always handy at most trades and done odd bits of tiling here and there! Bought my own house and tiled it slowly, then had an idea one day that I wouldn't mind doing this for a living! Our factory started to struggle a bit and offered voluntary redundancies so I took it, done a tiling course for a year then , got an apprentice job for 9 months , and bish bash bosh am still tiling away , and love it 80% of the time!

 

[afright]

I was an apprentice miner working down the pits when I first left school the pit closed in 69 and my brother was working for a tiling company as a tilers mate and they needed someone for a couple of weeks to fill in as some tilers were on holiday after the couple of weeks they asked if I wanted an apprenticeship so that temporary job ended up for 43 years

 

[Aston]

Tiling is a very enjoyable trade. its nice to go to work and look forward to your job whereas plastering makes you feel you have done something wrong in a previous life :0)

there's lots of scope to tiling too, stone patios, wet rooms, sub prep, bathroom renovations the list goes on and its mostly indoors! so, the variation and the enjoyment of what you do counted for me the most.

 

[dptiling]

third generation of tilers in my family . so it was a given really ..

 

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

plenty of lads still to post here!! , Dave,dean, sir,kilty ,johnny, no hiding boys !! lol

 

[ishi69]

I am a time served maintenance and installations engineer, about 14 yrs ago I took redundancy and buggered off to New York with a couple of mates and ended up learning the tile trade from a real good tiler whilst over there. Been at it ever since. Set up on my own about 6 yrs ago.

 

[Jeff the tiler]

Father always said if you have a trade you will always get work. Half right! Spent 6 years with him learning before being let out on my own. Dipped in and out of the industry over the last 30 years but it has always been something i have come back to. Now tiling a true trade again it a pleasure and being able to commit to it as a single trade again. Everyday a new challenge and there are not many jobs where you can say that.

 

[MTiler]

I was made redundant and had to retrain. Ive always worked with my hands and been more practical minded. Couldnt afford years of training so dare I say it I did a 4 week full time tiling course! Tiling appealed, as I have a design background. After a while I did the basic Bisazza course and about a year later I did their advanced course in Italy. The mosaic side of things has slowly taken off and its what I prefer doing.
I had no experience of the building trade so its been a massive learning curve.

missyT