Tiling Courses Ireland & Northern Ireland

When you decide to retrain for a new career you are investing in yourself and your future. As such, we firmly believe that you should do everything you can to make the absolute most of that investment. This includes finding and attending the very best tiling course that you can - including travelling if needed. We are the highest-rated dedicated tiling training provider in the UK and Ireland with hundreds of five star reviews. We have an exceptional record of helping to create some of the very best wall and floor tiling professionals in both countries and can instruct in all of the skills required to carry out tiling to a high standard.

Our tiling courses don't just focus on the practical element of wall and floor tiling (although this is obviously covered in great detail), we also pay great attention to the technical knowledge and business skills you will need to ensure your tiling jobs don't fail and that you are able able to set up, run & optimise your tiling business. This information is invaluable and many of our previous students have commented how useful it has been to their career success. We believe you wont find a better tiling training provider and that the initial investment needed to travel to us will prove more than worthwhile in the long run.

We have students coming to us every month from Dublin or Belfast along with elsewhere in Ireland. The transport links are easy. There are 3 ferry routes operating between Ireland and Wales offering you a combined total of 9 sailings per day.

Travelling to our tiling training centre from Ireland

You also have the option of flying into Bristol Airport (about a 50 minute drive from our tiling training centre), or Cardiff Airport (35 minutes).

There are many ferry crossings per day from Dublin to Holyhead which take only a couple of hours. From there you can drive to our training centre in South Wales. There are also daily crossings from Rosslare to Fishguard or Rosslare to Pembroke Dock.

Travelling to attend our tiling courses from Northern Ireland

Many of our students from Belfast and Northern Ireland get a ferry across to Liverpool and then drive down through Wales to our tiling training centre in South Wales. StenaLine offers 4 crossings a day for this route. Otherwise travelling to Dublin first offers you more ferry options direct to South Wales.

The flight options are also worth considering with options to fly from Belfast to either Bristol or Cardiff Airports, both are within a short drive of our training centre.

Accommodation

We have arranged discounted accommodation for all of our tiling course students at a local hotel in Newport. This proves enormously popular with our Irish and Northern Irish students. It is highly likely you would be staying in the hotel alongside other students from your course which gives you the option to socialise in the evenings, and discuss what you have learnt and your tiling goals over a drink or some dinner.

Tiling Training Facilities

• Experienced tutors
• Free on-site parking
• All tools supplied
• Shop on-site for tiling tools
• Discounted local accommodation
• Kitchen and tea/coffee facilities
• All tiles, tools and other materials supplied

Course Content

Each of our tile training courses has different content, so click through to the specific one that interests you in order to see what is covered. 

However, there is some specific foundational content that is covered on all courses, including:

• Measuring up, specifying material quantity and pricing/quoting jobs
• Overview of the different adhesives, grouts, tile backer boards and anti-fracture mattings available on the market
• Setting out walls and floors for optimal layout
• Correct usage of tile cutting tools and machines including manual cutters, wetsaws, grinders, hand scribes, nippers and files
• Techniques for applying adhesive to walls & floors with notched trowels
• Methods for achieving all different types and shapes of cuts including curves and plunge cuts
• Marking up tiles around curved obstacles and then cutting to fit
• Squaring up windows and niches
• Use of mitred tile trim around external edges
• Installation of grout using grout floats
• Washing and shaping of grout with washboy system
• Installation technique of silicone sealant.