Your advice for new tilers

[Dumbo]

Don't mess about with your boss"s daughter!!! And always wear clean underwear!

Don't see the point of second part if you don't do the first part

 

[On one]

Turn up when you say you will turn up!
Manners cost you nothing......ie please and thank you.
The last thing you leave is the first thing a customer will see(ie when you leave a job)
So tidy up after yourself,and never expect or assume the customer will tidy up after you.

 

[GoneGuy]

Don't be macho and try carrying too many boxes of tiles at once or bags of adhesive!
Always be polite even if you don't get the job it shows professionalism

 

[Blunt Tool]

Don't be macho and try carrying too many boxes of tiles at once or bags of adhesive!
Always be polite even if you don't get the job it shows professionalism

You mean don't go outside and kick all the heads off their prized roses as you leave?

 

[One Day]

Never ever drop your price or be bartered down.
The experience and confidence you gain from standing your ground and defending your quotes will make you commercially stronger and more confident.

 

[Natwasere]

Don't suffer any fools, and don't take any crap off builders and other jokers you will meet along the way.

Favourite builders quote...... "just put some more adhesive under it"

That's is what I was told after pulling the builder up for this newly screened floor

 

[Dan]

Favourite builders quote...... "just put some more adhesive under it"

That's is what I was told after pulling the builder up for this newly screened floor

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See it all the time! ha

 

[One Day]

If it makes you feel better, I just finished a 50sqm floor with 750x750 porcelain. Fixed 45sqm one day - 7hrs. Finished the corners and nibs and grouted today.
The floor was perfect, best I've ever fixed to. Anhydrite installed and prepared properly. Comb the floor, back skim the tile, drop and move on...!

Oh if only every floor was the same....

 

[Dan]

If it makes you feel better, I just finished a 50sqm floor with 750x750 porcelain. Fixed 45sqm one day - 7hrs. Finished the corners and nibs and grouted today.
The floor was perfect, best I've ever fixed to. Anhydrite installed and prepared properly. Comb the floor, back skim the tile, drop and move on...!

Oh if only every floor was the same....

I swear I've never ever heard anybody say that! Ever!

 

[Rookery]

Never say "Oh that'll do"

 

[andy-p]

All the above advice plus buy a good quality dab radio...

 

[Dumbo]

If it makes you feel better, I just finished a 50sqm floor with 750x750 porcelain. Fixed 45sqm one day - 7hrs. Finished the corners and nibs and grouted today.
The floor was perfect, best I've ever fixed to. Anhydrite installed and prepared properly. Comb the floor, back skim the tile, drop and move on...!

Oh if only every floor was the same....

We are lucky down Wiltshire,Hampshire way . We have a contractor called Mayhew easiscreed if you are lucky enough to go behind one of his floors it is a case of combining floor back skim away you go . I visited a customer who had one of his floors surveyed and over 35 sqm it deviated +or- 1mm over the whole floor .

 

[Flintstone]

If it makes you feel better, I just finished a 50sqm floor with 750x750 porcelain. Fixed 45sqm one day - 7hrs. Finished the corners and nibs and grouted today.
The floor was perfect, best I've ever fixed to. Anhydrite installed and prepared properly. Comb the floor, back skim the tile, drop and move on...!

Oh if only every floor was the same....

Kerching!!
What trowel did you use for that ?

 

[One Day]

Kerching!!
What trowel did you use for that ?

12mm square.

 

[Kyle Knowles]

Favourite builders quote...... "just put some more adhesive under it"

That's is what I was told after pulling the builder up for this newly screened floor

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I think ur straight edge must be bent coz that 2x1 I used to screed that floor was bang on