Month: April 2016

Construction Industry News

Construction Industry News November 2016
With the new build housing market gaining momentum and things picking up with the
construction trades such as plastering, Tiling, Plumbing, joinery, bricklaying and electrical on the building sites, the domestic market is also booming with people moving and remodelling their own homes.

Construction Trades right across the board in the domestic market are seeing a major upturn in business, trying to meet the demand of private customers needing work done on their home projects such as new bathrooms, kitchens, conservatories and extensions, they see it as putting value to their property as well as having the benefits of relaxing and enjoying their new modifications.

Construction Tiling courses

UK Pro Tiling Training is one of the companies that are doing well with people retraining

Gary Gregg who left Nissan in July 2009 retrained as a tradesman is one UK Pro Tiling Training many success stories after completing one of the 3 week fast track tiling courses after being made redundant from 17 years service at Nissan motor group, Gary who was helped by Job Center Plus rapid response to attended the course has never looked back since going self employed over a year ago.

Gary’s business Precision Finish undertakes all kinds of Tiling work in the domestic and commercial market throughout the North East to a high standard , he is constantly in demand due to the quality and professionalism of how he runs his business and regularly works 7 days a week to fit the jobs in.

Gary also now employs a range of sub – contractors to meet the demands of larger projects and his business seems to be going from strength to strength.

Now is the time to learn a new trade skill like Gary and become self employed, good quality tradesmen can earn up to £40K per year and have the benefits of being your own boss and not having to answer to anyone but yourself.

What Tile Adhesive To Use?

Choosing the right tile adhesive for the job

When it comes to choosing tile for your new project it is not a straight forward as it may seem, there are so many different types of tiles and adhesives to choose from let alone grouts etc

Types of Tile

There are many different types of tile with ceramic being the most popular, then there is Porcelain and all the natural stones such as Marble, Travertine, Terracotta, Slate, Limestone, Quartz and Granite.

Adhesives
The are different types of adhesive in tiling that suit different types of tile, knowing which ones to use is essential as failure is almost certain if the wrong one is selected.

Ready mixed tub adhesive
This type of adhesive comes in a plastic container and is ready to use straight from the pot however it has limitations,

This adhesive is usually only good for fixing ceramic tiles on a wall, it shouldn’t be used for installing porcelain or natural stone tile anywhere.

Standard Rapid Set Cement
This type of adhesive comes as a powder in a bag usually 20KG in weight, it is mixed by a mechanical mixer with water to produce the adhesives form. Rapid setting cement has about 20 minutes of working time from when mixed and 2 – 3 hours curing time.

This type of adhesive is for fixing ceramic tile only to a solid wall or floor

Rapid Set Multi Flex

This type of adhesive has a latex additive, which gives a slight flexible property to the adhesive, it also adds additional strength over the rapid set.

This multi flex adhesive is for installing tile over plywood surfaces that are subject to slight expansion and contraction, it is also used to fix porcelain and natural stone tiles which require more grip.

How To Maximise Your Earnings As A Tiler

How to maximize your earnings as a tiler.

Self Employed
If you are self employed or thinking of going self employed as a wall and floor tiler then you need to start thinking about how to maximise you earnings.

Getting started on a wall and floor tiling course is a good start to a new self employed career as a tiler, however people fail to see that there is a lot more to running a tiling business than just having good tiling skills. To make a good profitable career out of tiling you need to become a master of running a business, which includes marketing and Sales.

If you attend a tiling course that doesn’t cover marketing and sales skills, you will find it really hard running your business once you leave the course. Questions to ask: who your trainer is, what is his self-employed experience, how successful has he been and does he cover in depth how to make money from tiling.

Tuition

You need to be taught by someone who has been there, done that etc.

Neglect your marketing and sales skills and you wont have any jobs to do unless its your own and that doesn’t pay.

Darren the owner of UK Pro Tiling Training will be tutoring you on all aspects of our tiling courses with over 30 years successful self employed experience and over 11 years personally delivering the actual tiling training program.

On all of UK Pro Tiling Training courses, you will receive a full professional understanding of how to tile practically and run a business like Ross pictured here but also knowledge on how to find work and implement sales into your tiling services.

Courses

We have developed an additional 1 day Maximizing Your Earnings course which goes very deep into the world of sales phycology, understand this and your earnings will rise very rapidly.

  • Just Imagine if you won business from nearly every customer you quoted for.
  • No more of the answer I will get back to you or I will think about it, then never to here from them again
  • Just imagine how much money you could be loosing out on by not converting an estimate or quote for a job?

Sales phycology is very important if you are self employed (think of why there are top salesman earning mega money and bottom salesman earning nothing in the same company, they sell the same products at the same prices) the top salesmen have been taught and use the sales techniques below on their customers which gets them buying.

If you are running a tiling business then you will have to be a salesman before you are a tiler, Just think if you go to price up a job (which in fact you are going there to sell your services), no sale, no job, no money.

What you need to know

To Maximise your earnings, you will need to understand the following

  • How important selling your services really is
  • Sales triangle
  • Prospecting
  • NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming)
  • Subliminal messaging
  • Anchoring techniques
  • The 5 key steps to success in self employment
  • Ways of finding work, indirectly
  • First Meetings with a potential customer
  • Pitching your services
  • Closing down a sale
  • Facing objections when the customer says I’ll think about it
  • Difference between the top and bottom sellers
  • Judging people
  • Understanding the market place
  • Playing on words
  • Problems with over selling and too much talk
  • Motivation
  • Jeckle and Hyde personalities
  • Understanding your customers personality
  • Mirroring and matching techniques
  • The 3 Feet rule
  • The Yes Close
  • Reading body language
  • Maximizing profits
  • Establishing common ground with your customer
  • Getting clients to like and trust you
  • Introducing yourself
  • Eye contact
  • Who is the decision maker
  • Flattery
  • Linking sales
  • The benefits and features
  • Customer buying modes
  • Tie downs
  • Enthusiasm
  • Nerve control
  • Your goals
  • Rules of reciprocation
  • Embedding commands
  • Understanding the conscious and sub conscious mind

Just Imagine how much more money you could make from extra sales and how long you could be booked up for, all you need is the know how.

UK Pro Tiling Training runs a 1 day course that can be bolted onto the tiling courses which they run, this essential knowledge can make the difference between earning lots and just getting by