Not my balls up, but started a job today, a cloakroom/utility refurb. Started to take off the old 6'' white tiles and found that they was stuck on not one layer of wallpaper but TWO!
This one? http://www.tilersforums.com/stone-tiling-forum/45085-considerations-when-working-travertine.html
I just clicked on one of the links in the 'similar thread' box at the bottom of every thread page.
Just read through this thread and seen some proper horrors. Saw something like this a couple of times;
What is the correct way to do this sort of cut? would you go to the trouble of getting the system drained, removing the rad valve and drilling the tile?
Re: Stanley fatmax Extreme level. Worth getting over a normal box leve
Thinking of getting a new 6' level - Stanley is on my short list along with Stabila and (believe it or not) Wickes Pro Level.
http://youtu.be/G1GkcXOBuQU
Just finished a garden that had nearly 3,000 Red Leicesters and had a bit of efflorescence show up - gave it a quick application with brick acid and a brief jet washing sorted it.
Check this out in the testing thread, for my money the £3 bit from ATS via eBay was the best buy.
http://www.tilersforums.com/tiling-forum/61691-testing-thread-2.html#post632863
This tool definitely has the potential to be better as I would think the cut itself would be better than a grinder blade cut, it appears that the cut itself would be obscured from view by the tool itself.
Is this new tool designed to be used dry with a grinder?
And herein lies part of the problem. Home owners get a price from a pro tiler (insert bricklayer, chippy etc as appropriate) and the price is too high so they shop around and end up with something like the above job - I've seen it loads of times with most trades. The poor pro tiler like yourself...