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The college entrance examination will be held in a few days. For senior high school students, this big exam that affects the whole nation can be said to be a very important hurdle in life. I believe that many parents will use the "If you don't study hard, you will have to move bricks in the future" when urging their children to work and study. In fact, the ceramic construction industry, one of the brick-laying industries, is not as bad and cheap as imagined. Some migrant workers can even earn hundreds of thousands a year by laying ceramic tiles, overwhelming white-collar workers in big cities.
CCTV Finance "Economic Half Hour"
In 2017, CCTV Finance's "Economic Half Hour" column reported on a blue-collar worker who was "rimmed with gold." This influential figure in the brick-moving industry is named Tao Meng. It took him 20 years to rise from an ordinary migrant worker born in the 1980s to a master of tiling in the decoration industry. When he was interviewed by CCTV, his annual salary was nearly 200,000 yuan. His experience has not only been widely circulated as a classic case of grassroots counterattack, but has even been included in the writing materials for college entrance examination essays.
Case studies in college entrance examination Chinese composition materials
When you see this, you may ask: Even if you post a tile, you will feel like a winner in life. What kind of dramatic script is this?
After careful analysis, it is not difficult to find that it is normal and inevitable that the income of tiling masters exceeds that of white-collar workers, whether it is the theoretical knowledge accumulated in the school during the ten years of hard work, or the accumulated knowledge accumulated from brick to brick in ten years. Practical skills are the value of every ordinary worker. andThe operational skills possessed by jobs such as tiling masters seem to be more competitive and difficult to replace. The emergence of this phenomenon can also be understood as a good sign of healthy social development, which fully demonstrates that social distribution methods are becoming more and more fair and rational.
Tao Meng, as a representative of the group of tiling masters, is no longer a simple plasterer. He has formed his own set of standards from the preparation of adhesives, control of material dryness and humidity, to size calculation, shape design, and beautiful seams, so that ceramic tile products can be presented in the most perfect way.
China Ceramics Network reporter learned from the well-known ceramic tile construction service platform "Bao Qing Tie" in the industry that a professional and technical tile master can earn thousands of dollars a day, and there are not a few such masters. Ceramic tile brands such as ICC, Douglas, Jinyitao, Jianyi, Paulola and Guanzhu will choose to cooperate with them when decorating their booths/showrooms.
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In recent years, large slabs, rock slabs and other products and paving techniques such as dense joints and dense joints have become common in the building ceramics industry. The cost of ceramic tile paving has increased from tens of yuan per square meter to per square meter. It costs more than 100 yuan per square meter, and some even cost several hundred yuan per square meter. In addition, coupled with the cost of transportation, processing, auxiliary materials, etc. of ceramic tiles, people can’t help but lament that “labor is more expensive than bricks.”
So who gave the tiler the courage to charge high labor fees? On the one hand, the difficulty of laying ceramic tiles has increased; on the other hand, there are fewer skilled and experienced workers; and the most important point is that laying construction is too important for ceramic tiles.
Real shot of the close joint paving of Jianyi marble tiles
In the final analysis, ceramic tiles are still a semi-finished product. When it is a brick alone, it may have high appearance and good quality. When it is applied to various spaces, its value may be lost due to construction problems. Big discount. This is why tiling masters are so valuable.
Even ceramic tile dealers understand this. When a reporter from China Ceramics Network visited China Resources Building Materials in Chengdu, I was amazed by the detailed processing effect of product application in Nobel Ceramics NO.1 store. A ceramic tile exhibition hall that can sell goods not only depends on the display of the product itself, but also the process of product application. This is also something that high-end owners and designers are paying more and more attention to under the situation of consumption upgrading.
Floor tiles in a corner of Nobel Tiles NO.1 store
Take Jianyi marble tiles as an example. After the brand launched the close-seam paving process, it upgraded its service model from "providing products to consumers" to "providing space for consumers." Since the sales and service chain of ceramic tiles is relatively long, very few brands can independently complete the one-stop finished product delivery closed loop of "from research and development to production, from display to design, from material selection to sales, and from delivery to construction". Cooperation with execution has become an indispensable link. It is understood that in order to expand the competitive advantage in the terminal market and improve the premium ability of products, many ceramic tile dealers have launched and implemented the "finished product delivery" model and formed their own construction teams to focus on both products and paving.
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Although the delivery of finished ceramic tiles has gradually become a trend, there are still various concerns.
"Selling ceramic tiles is just like selling materials. Doesn't doing construction work mean touching the cheese of the decoration company?" This may sound reasonable at first, but in the final analysis, it is just a matter of profit distribution. Consumers are only responsible for paying. They will naturally choose whichever method can quickly and worry-freely implement the product. Instead of watching the material supplier and the construction party push and hold each other, it is better to let one of them be responsible in the end.
“Is the person who sells ceramic tiles responsible for construction professional?” Some people have also raised such concerns. Suppose that one day suddenly a brand that produces ceramic tiles starts to provide tile adhesive or caulking agent, it does not mean that they cross over from ceramic tile production to auxiliary material production; it does not mean that they start to provide construction services.The original sales staff were transferred to work as plasterers. In fact, the same people are involved in production, sales, and construction. It is just the integration of resources that has occurred.
“Touting construction as so important is just an excuse for businesses to seek more profits.” Some people may think that when construction is monopolized by people selling materials, their profits must be higher, and the tiling master’s wages will be higher. The fact that it is getting more expensive is the best proof. In fact, this idea is not entirely correct. The wages of tiling masters are getting more and more expensive. The main reason is that the construction difficulty of popular products such as large slabs and rock slabs and paving techniques such as dense joints and dense joints has increased. It seems that as construction costs increase, the efficiency of the tiler also decreases.
Some ceramic tile dealers believe that the cost of ceramic tile construction and laying will not necessarily increase but not decrease in the future. With the maturity and popularization of tools and technologies, it is unknown whether ceramic tile laying will become easier and easier.
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It is foreseeable that in the future, the delivery of finished ceramic tiles will be a big piece of cake, and highly professional tiling masters will definitely become a key factor for the success of major ceramic tile brands and dealers in the "market battle" . Brands and dealers who are prepared in advance have actually won at the starting line.
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Author: Hong Xiaochun
