Ultimate 15 Day Flexible Tiling Course

If you can’t get to visit us for our training centre courses, or don’t have the time off work, We have an optional Train From Home course that you can do from a small workstation set up in your garage or spare room. Here you would follow a hands on 15 day flexible how to tile learning program, delivered by video instruction covering 45 lessons to follow along with. You get a 90 day course licence to access the program to complete your training.

Tile Mastery Program

This is more than just a tile fixing course, this is everything in one place on how to run your own successful tiling business. We offer the easiest and best way to practice and master your tiling skills like a pro on this comprehensive practical “Hands On” video tiling course. Practice every tiling skill and learn all the essential product knowledge as well as how to run your pro tiling business in as little as 15 days. Choose the days or evenings when you want to practice on the course. Get 90 days to complete the course, so you have plenty of time to go back over the lessons and practice again if required.  This course comes with over a 100 pages of detailed course notes for you to keep for future reference as well as full tutor support during and after.

DAY 1 – Getting ready and setting up

• All the course video lessons are below
• Intro to becoming a Professional Tiler
• How pro tilers charge for your services. Kitchens, Bathrooms, floors
• How to set up 1 or 2 board practice workstation in a corner (roughly £30) see picture

DAY 2 – Tools and setting up your trade accounts

• Where to buy your tiling tools to train with and how to order your tools (roughly £200)
• List of all the tiling tools you would need to trade in your pro tiling business
• Understanding all the different types of tiles and how to fit them
• How to set up your live trade accounts with tile shops
• Getting some cheap/ free tiles and practice adhesives to train with

DAY 3 – How to measure and price your customer jobs

• Learn how to measure up all areas perfectly
• Practice measuring your own bathroom / customer areas
• Practice measuring your own kitchen/ customer areas
• Practice measuring your own floor / customer areas
• Learn all the different tiling materials / products you will use on customer jobs
• Practice pricing up your bathroom / estimating for a customers job

DAY 4 – Cutting tiles into every shape there is to do

• Practice cutting different  tiles with a manual tile cutter
• Practice cutting different tiles with a wet saw
• Practice cutting different tiles with an angle grinder
• Practice marking and drilling holes in tiles
• Send in your work for marking and feedback
• Practice pricing up your kitchen / estimating for a customers job
• Practice pricing up your floors / estimating for a customers job
• Send in your work for marking and feedback

Day 5 – Setting out, where to Start tiling from

• Learn all about setting out methods (where to start)
• Practice how to set out any customers bathroom, inc your own
• Practice how to set any customers kitchen splash back, inc your own
• Practice how to set out any customers floors, inc your own

Day 6 – Fixing wall tiles. Practice

• Practice fixing your tiles perfectly on your workstation walls
• Do speed tiling exercises and learn to tile quickly
• Learn how to work super clean and minimise adhesive mess
• Practice cutting in angles to wall edges that are running off
• Practice applying internal movement joints
• Learn all about which tile adhesives to use where
• Send in your pictures for marking and feedback

DAY 7 – Tiling windows and using tile trim

• Practice tiling out of shape windows in your workstation
• Practice inserting internal tile trims in windows (mitres)
• Practice tiling boxes using external tile trims (mitres)
• Sending your pictures for feedback

DAY 8 – Full workstation tile project

• Start your full tiling project with everything you have learned, like the pictures on the website

DAY 9 – Full workstation tile project

• Continue from previous day
• Send in your pictures for marking and feedback

DAY 10 – Tiling knowledge

• Learn all about tanking (waterproofing) systems for wet rooms
• Learn all about fixing cement boards to floors to stop cracks and tile failures
• Learn all about floor anti crack decoupling mats and why they are required
• Learn all about under floor heating installations
• Learn all about how to prepare every customer background before tiling
• Practice repairing damaged and uneven walls on your work station

DAY 11 – Floor Tiling

• Practice applying floor tiles perfectly in your work area
• Practice cutting floor tiles to walls running off
• Learn and use level clips to ensure no lips in tiles
• Send in your pictures for marking and feedback

DAY 12 – Grouts and silicones

• Practice mixing up your grout
• Practice applying grout to tile joints
• Practice removing old silicone
• Practice your own siliconing, do your own shower and bath
• General tile information and professional tricks and tips of the trade

Day 13 – Starting a tiling business

• Learn how to start your own tiling business
• Learn how to pick the right and best business name
• Learn all the best ways to find the tiling work

Day 14 – How to deal with customers

• Learn how to sell your tiling services to your customers
• Learn how to connect to your customers personality
• Learn the drive and enthusiasm needed for your success

DAY 15 – Keeping accounts/ running the business

• Learn how to keep your accounts and business records
• Learn how to pay yourself a wage from the business
• Learn how to write a business plan
• Summary of the course and check off list what you have learned

Your 3 tiling certificates are issued documenting all the above units

• After these 15 days you would have another 75 days on the course program to go back
• over all the lessons again and practice more tiling if needed.
• No need to complete in 15 days straight, You have 90 days to complete