Acceptable tiling

[Spud]

I have been finding there seem to be a lot of threads started recently with customers with unrealistic expectations from their tilers and unrealistic expectation from what a professional tiling job should be finished like , a pro tiler should be working where ever possible to 2 standards one being b.s 5385 and the other bs 8000 neither standard state that perfection is the acceptable standard and allow tolerances for the work these standards are there to protect the customer from sub standard work and protect the tiler from loonies with OCD

 

[Qwerty]

Indeed there have been a fair few threads like that of late. A sign of the times I think. Perfection is great, but there is a limit to how perfect a job can be.

 

[White Room]

To be honest I've never known a trade that gets so much flak, I know it's one of the finishing trades but I have to think 2 thirds of a football pitch even before fixing any tile, bowing, size differences colour variations, whats on the floors and walls and being on the ball if any discrepancy's arise during fixing with a customer hanging round your neck saying that not what I thought there'd look like, you bought the bloody things for incredible cheap price over the net.
It's the easiest thing to pick fault with anybodys work no matter how good it is.

 

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

Mind you i think other bitchy tradesmen and tilers can add petrol to the flames as well !! by pulling other peoples work to bits , i see it all the time with various trades not just tiling !