My Son is Learning How to Install Ceramic and Quarry Tile. Any Tool Brand Recommendations?

04.10.12 | chickensoup

[Chickensoup]

My Son is Learning How to Install Ceramic and Quarry Tile. Any Tool Brand Recommendations? I am providing him with tools of the trade. He needs a wet saw that will hold up for a number of installations.

Tile guys out there?

[BobL]

“You’d make a hell of a dad or other close relative.”

Thanks, I have a few that would agree...or will agree, once they’re on their own, and start saying “I can fix that, it’s just the capacitor in the condenser unit”. Right now, I’m more of a pain, but that’s fine - it’s their decades in the future that will be determined by what they learn now. I’m still indebted to a neighbor 10 years older than my parents (deceased now) that took my hand through my learning curve - I’ll NEVER forget him.

[garandgal]

I have a lot of experience in this area...let me just say this:

He can make an EXTREMELY good living, if he learns from a craftsman how to do the detail work (showers, tub surrounds, patterns, backsplashes, etc.), in addition to the larger jobs. Guys who are very detail-oriented and meticulous are in such demand I cannot begin to explain it to you. It may take him a little while to get there, but once he gets that reputation he will end up training his own crews to keep up with the work.

Have your extended family let him “practice” in your homes...you could all end up with some great-looking bathrooms & kitchens...LOL!

[Chickensoup]

He is learning on a ground floor room in my house and then moving to a counter in my kitchen. He is then going to work on a friend’s bathroom, and others are interested. I also have four apartments I want tiles, but later.

Thanks for the information. I think that this will be good for him.

[linn37]

Best way to learn is as a helper to an actual tile setter. He won’t need tools until he learns the trade.

[Rudder]

DeWalt: way ahead of whoever is second best.