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  1. Andy Allen

    a run of bad luck

    work round here has dried up big time, just had a weeks work cancle on me at the last minute, lost out on a forty metre job to a handy man cowboy, got asked to quote 50m2 600x600 polished pors.......over a floating floor, that bounces like a trampoline. ive spoken to every plumber, tiler...
  2. G

    Bad feeling of not getting paid!

    Hi everyone not been on here for a while,been really busy.  This is whats happened,about 5 weeks ago I was really quite and had been sending emails,phoning builders,plumbers,kitchen fitters etc to see if the needed a tiler, got a phone call back from a building company saying that they...
  3. U

    So bad it's good and kind of funny..

    Considering some of you lot like your slurps a lot, this is definitely something I would love to try on some of you guys...:lol: Creepy Eyes Prank
  4. R

    You think you have had a bad day!?

    Took my motorbike in to the shop last week for new chain and sprockets, ended up needing new chain and sprockets, new rear tyre, new rear brake pads and new section of exhaust! Total of £700. The guys in the shop say Im the customer of the month. On the up side the bike rides like a dream, can...
  5. C

    another bad job

    6mm ply Silicon as adhesive and bad joists aren't good for floor tiles, some chancer had done all of the previous and guess what. . . all of the porcelain tiles cracked. . what a surprise. I had to remove the lot, strengthen the floor joists with stilts overboard with no more ply, then lay a...
  6. G

    Bad Customer Service

    Just back from a well known indipendant Tile distributor in the Gorbals area of Glasgow, was in getting some prices and placing an order, I have used this place all my carreer for tiles trims addy Sigmas etc as well as CTD anyway a lot of dosh is spent in this place every year On Saturday I...
  7. G

    How bad ?

    How bad does a job have to be before whoever did it actually admits it ? This was at a school where my daughter has swimming classes....how hard is it to cut a piece of trim somewhere close ?
  8. I

    Is this a bad install?

    Hi, Around six months ago I managed to find me a tiler from these forums and he tiled the entire ground floor of my house. The job was done as follows with his recommendations - 18mm Marine ply screwed down at 150mm centres with a 5-7mm gap between the plys filled with a flexible Silicon...
  9. I

    Bad drivers

    I heard on the radio today that bad drivers could face fines of £100 and 3 points on their licence, seems a bit sexist to me...................
  10. J

    Not bad

    http://youtu.be/PRiYkwtBK34
  11. marbleman

    bad day

    son dropped the van off to me at 6.30 so i could load van up with 6 rolls of matting and 20 bags of addy, 2 wet cutters and all the other tools, he drives off to do small repair job of another tilers work , in i get travel a mile and the van comes to a stop , ring AA will be with you as soon as...
  12. U

    This is so bad.... :-))))

    :lol: :lol: ok,,, sad, I know... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlXjIg4fH74&feature=player_embedded#at=13
  13. A

    Bad Debt Letter

    As there has been interest shown on this, the following is a 7 day warning letter to send to non payers: Dear … Site Address: Invoice No. We note that the above invoice, dated …, has not been settled in full despite the stipulated 14-day payment term. Kindly settle the amount of … by...
  14. R

    bad walls

    Started tiling kitchen splash backs today (first time tiling).The walls are that bad i found myself spreading the wall and tile.Started with a 6mm trowel and had to change upto a 10mm.Are the tiles likely to hold or not?I used bal green star and primed the walls with mapei primer.What would of...
  15. M

    Does tile adhesive go bad??

    Hi, If cement based adhesive is still in date but slightly hard to touch in an unopened bag. Is it Ok to use? How would you know it has "Gone bad"? :huh2:
  16. C

    2 bits of bad news in one day.

    hi all, i posted this thread in the arms as i didnt want the general public to hear my rant or to get any ideas. yesterday was not the best day of my tiling career. sorry but this may be a long post but i have to get it out. I have just completed a 40m2 kitchen, utility and downstairs wc...
  17. widler

    and yet another bad job

    went to my mums on sunday. her husband is a bit(hell of a lot)of a ijeet. he has had a leak coming down a cavity at the back of the house and coming through the ceiling in the kitchen extention for,id say 20 years. now it only comes in when it blows a certain way,about once a year,could be...
  18. R

    Yet another post about bad work...

    My girl friends mother asked me if I can recommend a painter to repaint her hall was as the wall paper was peeling off the wall, I had a look at the wall and realised that the shower was on the other side of the wall. I looked closely and shock horror!!!! No Silicon in the internal joints and...
  19. J

    Bad day for my van

    Not had a good day today :thumbsdown: was having a quick bite to eat an a brew when theres knock at the door from the bloke down the road , he asks me if i have an expert van to wich i reply yea wos wrong , he then tells me that it 100metres down the road wrapped around some metal...
  20. S

    Tiler makes poor job of splashback, ruined sockets, bad grout, uneven tiling

    Hi, I'm new to the forum. We recently hired a Tiler who I got in touch with through another forum and he has done a poor job. What happened was we were quoted £*** by one company to do the splash-back in our newly fitted kitchen, I asked on this other forum in tiling section how much it...

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