hello career sighted this is my el
Navarro and I'm a tile setter a tile
setter is a person that installs tile on
bathroom walls on a bathroom floors
kitchen countertops balconies pools
ceilings anywhere with their style to be
installed that the tile setter
I like the artistic part of it I mean
everybody looks at it everybody enjoys
it and it's difficult to do but it's
very appreciated the process for the
floor over wood you could use
quarter-inch Hardiebacker you glue it
down with dents and you screw it down
just a waterproof base for floors for
the walls to get a quality job the best
thing to do is the floating floating is
the Semana call it mud it's a smooth
coat to get a flat surface for your time
first you put the paper wire mesh then
you put your scratch coat and then you
put your Brown that's the floating and
then setting some tile over that to make
a flat and plumb surface which is very
important for the tile to work and look
good you gotta have your walls perfectly
plumb back in the day everybody used to
flow now they use the Hardiebacker on
the walls
I still don't use that system only
because Hardiebacker you cannot plumb
the walls you stick the Hardiebacker to
the two by fours so whatever the walls
do the Hardiebacker does the tile does
the same so the walls become uneven and
then the tile work doesn't look as
pretty so that's the reason why I do all
the floating because my towel at the end
is gonna look better
most of my jaws are within like an hour
radius I do travel wherever the job is I
go anywhere and set title this is like
kind of like a worldwide thing there's a
procedure pretty much the same see I
could go another country another state
and do another bathroom maybe the same
thing sometimes I worked like 30 hours
sometimes 40 they all depends what kind
of jobs I have I want to have a lot of
work I work on Saturdays but there's
times where I have pretty easy weeks
I only work like 20 hours I'm
self-employed but I know a lot of
different contractors that hire me for
their services I started when I was 18
years old right out of high school
because one of my dad's friends referred
me to one of his friends they needed a
tile helper I went in there started
working with him right after high school
go to the union hall that's a local
late-teen join the union you get
certified there it's free they send you
to school and then they send you to work
as an apprentice they'll tell you this
is your title this way you got to do and
then they send you out to the job you
get paid for that and then you know you
keep on going back to school and going
back to the job and as long as you keep
on doing that there's benefits there's
retirements it's like five years
experience to be a helper and then after
that you start setting a little bit of
tile and you don't become a journeyman -
at least I would say ten years or above
you start getting your experience from
working for different companies when you
work for a company you got to do
everything - co2 to do all the jobs
correct I did work for a company for a
lot of years that's how I became
self-employed it's a tough job but if we
learn the trade if you're interested it
it'll pay off at the end thanks career
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