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  1. 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...
  2. 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 ?
  3. 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...
  4. 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...................
  5. J

    Not bad

    http://youtu.be/PRiYkwtBK34
  6. 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...
  7. U

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

    :lol: :lol: ok,,, sad, I know... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlXjIg4fH74&feature=player_embedded#at=13
  8. 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...
  9. 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...
  10. 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:
  11. 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...
  12. 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...
  13. 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...
  14. 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...
  15. 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...
  16. E

    I have had a bad day.

    Doing a job for a builder at the moment...first bathroom was floor to ceiling white tiles, brick bond with grey grout with a glass mosaic border and shower was all glass mosaics and floor was black polished porcelain with anthracite grout...Well was just about to grout the floor this morning...
  17. G

    Really bad snow in the USA

    I have just got off the phone with a friend in Minnesota . He said that since early this morning the snow has been nearly waist high and is still falling. The temperature is dropping below zero and the north wind is increasing. His wife has done nothing but look through the kitchen window all...
  18. D

    not bad for a pool finisher

    i got it wrong its not 200m2 of limestone to fix its 400m2 !!! the customer is paying £150 m2 for it, and uncoupling membrane to supple and fix :yikes: any guys in south wales with the relevant skills can PM me with there details if they are up for it :thumbsup:
  19. C

    Did I get a bad tiler? Please help

    Hey all My first post. Just had my bathroom tiled - he isn't 100% finished yet as had to order more tiles. The tiles in one of the corners don't line up with the others. See the image it's obvious they aren't Do I get the tiler to take them all off on that wall and ask if he will pay for...
  20. D

    Is ivory floor grout a bad idea?

    Apologies if this has been discussed before, but is ivory grout a bad idea for the floor upstairs ensuite? Does sealing actually work. Or will it just look dire in a short space of time. This is not a dirty house and shoes are left at the front door! The tiles are light cream and the...

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