Join 1000+ trained students
Rated
by 400+ students

Business Development, Advanced Product Knowledge & Natural Stone Tiling Course

This 1 day course is an optional add-on day for our 4 Day Professional Intensive Course. It is included as standard in our 9 Day Advanced Intensive Tiling Course and our 13 Day Expert Tiling Course.

£99.00
inc VAT
Join Course
0% Finance payment option available with
Course Duration
1 Day
Tiling Manual
Ongoing Support
Financing
0% Available
Accommodation
Discount Available
Teaching
Friday
Course Rating

About The Course

This course is a must if you really want to be successful in your new career. Set yourself apart from the average ceramic tiler!

Our 1 Day Business Development, Advanced Product Knowledge & Natural Stone Course offers you an extensive insight into how to best set up and run your tiling business, maximise your profits, and offer a wider range of services to your customers. It also covers all natural stone products and how to cut, clean, seal, and fix them. This course is ideal for anyone who has completed our 4 Day Professional Intensive Tiling Course.

This course is extensive in its content. You can expect to learn the best ways to set up your tiling business, how to increase your income and customer base by offering more advanced services such as wet rooms complete with tanking systems. You will also benefit from an in-depth look into some of the more complex products you may use such as anti-crack matting or underfloor heating.

This day is also about Natural Stone. You need to know the difference between all of the different types of natural stone products on the market, how to cut and fix them, and how each one needs sealing – they’re all different!

Hear from some of our past students

At Expert Tiling Courses UK we have a proven track record of positive reviews. We also have some incredible success stories from previous students who have gone on to launch their own businesses.

Business Development

This is the key difference between tradesmen who are making enough to get by, and tradesmen who are financially successful and run an established and well thought of tiling business. Simply being a knowledgeable and skilled tiler is only half of the battle. The business side of running a tiling business is equally important to your success. Setting up your business and choosing a name, marketing your business and getting exposure to potential customers, keeping accountancy records, gaining customer trust and securing work, all of these things are key to being successful.  The biggest area for improvement in most tiling businesses is the marketing and then sales approach. Knowing how to get the best value from your marketing budget, or even targeting customers through free marketing is vital to the success of a new tiling business. Once you get the opportunity to quote for a customer’s job, that is when your sales skills come in. Being able to turn more quotations into paid work is massively important, not only in terms of generating income for your business but also in terms of limiting the amount of running around pricing up jobs that you never win.
We will guide you on all of this, our vast experience over numerous years will be passed on to you and will prove invaluable for your future success.

Advanced Product Knowledge

As part of the advanced product knowledge module, we will teach you about wet rooms and tanking systems, how to offer these to your customers and what to charge. We will show you when and how to use cement backer boards, commonly used for timber floors which have some expansion and movement in them. You will also learn about using self-levelling compounds to correct un-level floors. During this part of the day we will deal with some unusual situations that you may come across which can cause you problems if you don’t know how to deal with them. Underfloor heating, cracking concrete floors, anti-fracture matting, expansion joints and different height floors will all be covered during this course. We will also show you how to set out some more complex tiling patterns & bonds. This additional information should enable you to tackle any hurdle you’re likely to come across in the process of running your tiling business.

Natural Stone

The final part of this course covers natural stone. There are a wide variety of natural stone tile products on the market at the moment and they’re becoming increasingly more popular with customers due to their high-end aesthetics. In fact, natural stone installation makes up about 35% of tiling jobs these days! While the earnings potential for fitting natural stone is significantly higher than ceramic or porcelain tiles, they do need a bit of special treatment – they’re natural products carved out of the earth and are all porous (they stain easily!). By the end of this course you will have a full understanding of how to identify, clean, cut, drill and fit natural stone tiles. You will also know how to seal each different type of natural stone using the correct choice of the many different sealers on the market.

Tiling Manual

This 1-day course is packed full of information that will prove invaluable for your tiling career. As with all our other courses, you will also receive additional printed information to add to your Tiling Manual, covering everything you have learnt about business development, advanced product knowledge, and natural stone. Like all our manuals, this handout has again been carefully formatted to ensure that any information you need is easy to find and clear to understand. You’ll want to keep it close to hand!

Ongoing Support

As always, anybody who completes one of our courses will have our contact details and be able to take advantage of our ongoing support and advice on any of the topics covered.

This course runs every Friday and is perfect for those who have completed our 4 Day Professional Intensive Tiling Course, give us a call with any questions you may have!

Course Content

Business Development
Setting up your business
The different business structures
Choosing a business name – important to get right
Insurance
Revenue streams
Maximising your income
Marketing cost effectively
Targeting your marketing for the jobs you want to do
Pricing up jobs
Providing quotations
Converting quotes in to paid work – sales!
Up selling materials for increased income
Utilising trade accounts and discounts
Trade pricing
Bookkeeping and Accounts
Tax
Paying yourself a wage
Advanced Product Knowledge
Wet room installations
Tanking systems
Cement backer board
Anti-fracture matting
Underfloor heating
Self-levelling compounds
Expansion joints
Cracking substrates
Differing floor heights
Complex tiling patterns/bonds
Natural Stone
How to identify natural stone tiles
Explanation of the issues with porosity
Cleaning natural stone
Cutting natural stone
Drilling natural stone
How to fix natural stone and which adhesive products to use
Sealing your tiles and which sealing product matches with which type of stone
The many different sealing products on the market
The risks of grouting natural stone
Issues with slate floor tiles
How much you should charge to fit natural stone

Our happy customers

See what some of our past students have to say about our courses

Request a call back

We understand it can be difficult choosing an advanced tiling training course, and we would like to help with any questions you have. You can call us for a chat, or alternatively fill in your details below and we will call you.

Thank you! Your submission has been received!
Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.

Book onto the course today

Advanced Product Knowledge

Gain a greater understanding of tiling products and background preparation

Natural Stone

Learn the key information for working with natural stone tiles

Future Development

Develop business strategies to grow your tiling business

Business Development, Advanced Product Knowledge & Natural Stone Tiling Course
1 Day Course
£99
Key Features
Tiling Manual
Ongoing Support
0% Financing Option
Discounted Accommodation
Join Course
0% Finance payment option available with

View other couses

Whether you're just getting started, or have a few years in the construction industry under your belt and are looking to up-skill yourself, we have a course for everyone.

4 DAY COURSE
Professional Intensive Tiling Course
Core Key Skills Development
Wall & Floor Practical Work
Expert Instructors
Flexible Payment Options
Learn More
9 DAY COURSE
Advanced Intensive Tiling Course
Advanced Skill Development
Wet Room Tiling Skills
Complex Problem Solving
Flexible Payment Options
Learn More
13 DAY COURSE
Expert Tiling Course
Most Comprehensive Course
Herringbone & Other Bonds
Expert-Level Cutting Skills
Flexible Payment Options
Learn More

FAQs

Find answers to common questions about our 1 Day Business Development course.

When is this course run?

This course runs on Fridays.

What will I learn?

This course is extremely detailed in its content. We aim to equip you with all of the necessary knowledge to be able to make a success of setting up and running a tiling business.

Will I receive a certificate?

Yes, you will receive a certificate that demonstrates you have completed training in background preparation, advanced product knowledge & natural stone tiling.

Do I need to complete this course?

This course is included in our 9 Day and 13 Day courses as standard. It is optional for our 4 Day course. However, many students have found enormous value in this additional business day, and we highly recommend it if you are looking to tile for a living.

Still have questions?

Contact us today and speak to one of the team.