Hi i'm after so info please, me and my girlfriend and young son are seriously considering moving to the malaga area to be closer to family we have in coin. I'm currently working as a vinyl floor finisher in England. Does anybody on here have any experience on the job market in this field. In my limited knowledge on spain i'm pretty sure the majority of there flooring is ceramics. I know the jobs market out there is not great at the minute, but would be willing to turn my hand to anything if flooring isn't an option. We are going to rent our house out in england and try our luck in spain. Do you think i'm silly up rooting my family in the current climate? I'm currently self employed so would always have a job to return to. Any response with be helpful
Cheers Damian
There are other kinds of flooring catching on in Spain, but that require different laying techniques to vinyl I suppose. We have cork in some rooms in our house that we changed when we moved, the original being tiles. But we changed it after seeing two other houses with cork floors, so we're not the only ones!In other rooms we have hand made terracotta tiles. We live near Madrid.
Also a lot of people are getting wooden flooring (it's called tarima or tarima flotante). Older houses or flats may have that as their original flooring. My MIL has old wooden floors with carpets and rugs, but she lives in the north.
If you get into the ecological side of the market (you'd need to do research into real ecological materials) you have a "new" area to work in that is growing.
Having said that it's important to note what others have said - there's no building going on at the moment.
