Is there such a thing as a Tiling Apprenticeship anymore?

MrMiata

I saw an article recently saying there were no floor and wall tiling apprentices registered since 2012.

Surely people are still getting tiling work done!?

Have they just done away with schooling?
So there’s no qualification?
Or has it largely been absorbed into the other trades?

sydthebeat

Most tilers I know are self thought

Thus there's a whole pile of crap tilers out there

Bonzo Delaney

I find there's more a need for a proper system in place to educate tilers now more than ever especially with the amount of different substrates been used in both commercial and residential projects.
Theres the whole science end of it now in knowing how to proceed correctly with suitability, reaction and drying times of the various substrates and adhesives nowadays.
While its predominantly a craft based trade and having a good eye is paramount. A lot of "Tasty" work has to be removed and redone due to the incorrect materials and processes used.

salmocab

I think it’s one of those jobs that’s too easy to do and quite hard to do right. I know quite a few people that have done their own and it just never looks quite right. Now I’ve also seen some professional jobs that haven’t looked quite right either.

mad m

Solas run a tiling apprenticeship. Runs in 5 phases I think.

https://ie.indeed.com/Apprenticeship,-Tiler-jobs?advn=7168441576295767&vjk=8d603db25ae8fde5

Dr Turk Turkelton

Tiling was never traditionally a trade on its own it was part of a Bricklaying apprenticeship, thus it was a Bricklayers work.
As with all trades this started to get watered down and there was 1 month courses and night courses doing it as really its not very complicated.
That's why there is now a proliferation of chancers now doing it as they do a short course, rock up to your door claiming to be "qualified" and charge top rates and leave you with a sh1t job as they know none of the intricacies of the task.

MrMiata

sydthebeat wrote: »

Most tilers I know are self thought

Thus there's a whole pile of crap tilers out there

I remember working with a relative of mine who's a carpenter my first time on a site and he was talking about the tiler who was always one house behind us.
He said it's hard going but that the tilers probably making a lot more than him on site, it was one guy and a helper tiling a whole housing estate!

It's something that's interested me for awhile, it's just detail oriented, like you could tune everything else out and just focus on the job at hand.

Is there much of a demand out there for good tilers?

MrMiata

Dr Turk Turkelton wrote: »

Tiling was never traditionally a trade on its own it was part of a Bricklaying apprenticeship, thus it was a Bricklayers work.
As with all trades this started to get watered down and there was 1 month courses and night courses doing it as really its not very complicated.
That's why there is now a proliferation of chancers now doing it as they do a short course, rock up to your door claiming to be "qualified" and charge top rates and leave you with a sh1t job as they know none of the intricacies of the task.

Funny that I'd hate the thought of going brick laying but I could see myself tiling (I could see myself doing a lot of jobs, I just haven't a clue what I want!).

My father was telling how a friend of his finished some tiling course and said 'jesus yeah he was busy there for awhile but the work died off very quickly', I asked was he any good, 'no.. that probably explains the lack of work doesn't it..'