another plumbers job

[thompsonbrown]

personally I have nothing against plumbers....

I wouldn't blame you if you did. Most of the plumbers I know I wouldn't trust with spanners never mind tiles.

 

[charlie1]

My theory on it is, they think the hard part is done, after all it's water tight lets just get the tiles on. Don't blame them as water can cause so much damage

 

[MTiler]

Hey Miss tiler steady on there. Ive just posted my congrats on you winning JOTM.
I'm one of them plumbers and also an electrician. I also have a science degree which took 7yrs to complete through the open university. so I am fully qualified even for your rocket science bit.
However I do tile but hold no qualifications :sofahide:

Your point being?
Its quite simple really, if you need a certain job doing, eg Tiling, then you get someone in who's a tiler, why get a plumber to do it? I appreciate if customers have to sort out multi-trades it can be a pain, but in the long run it pays to get the right person for each trade.
I went to see a job recently where the customer had got the carpenter on the job to fix 10mm x10mm paper faced mosaics, plus other tiling. It was a total mess. How stupid is that? The whole lot needed ripping out. I felt like saying to him 'What did you expect?"

 

[prceramics]

Them tears could have been leaks. Love the fact that he left the instructions on the Wc about using the correct tools.

yeah how ironic

 

[thompsonbrown]

Your point being?
Its quite simple really, if you need a certain job doing, eg Tiling, then you get someone in who's a tiler, why get a plumber to do it? I appreciate if customers have to sort out multi-trades it can be a pain, but in the long run it pays to get the right person for each trade.
I went to see a job recently where the customer had got the carpenter on the job to fix 10mm x10mm paper faced mosaics, plus other tiling. It was a total mess. How stupid is that? The whole lot needed ripping out. I felt like saying to him 'What did you expect?"

The only point I was trying to make was a bit of lighthearted fun, hence the hiding behind a sofa.
You did really did come down hard on plumbers who also tile.
I would agree that most plumbers should stay well away from tiling. But to say all I think your wrong.
I'm a plumber and have been tiling since 1986. My 28yrs experience, keeping track on the latest standards and tiling trends, and gaining recognition with my installation work been featured in magazines such as Chelsea home & garden to me is more of a qualification that doing a 6 week course in tiling to gain a nvq just to be classed as qualified.
I feel that my tiling is to a very high standard and regardless of qualifications in tiling, I would class myself better than most tilers who are qualified. I just think that your original comment was a sweeping generalization that's all.

 

[prceramics]

Started to put this job right today and the bath was 30mm out so that needed to be refitted

 

[afright]

Did a shower today shower tray fitted loose and out of level so annoying, if there is a problem in the furture who gets it in the neck first you guessed it.

 

[prceramics]

One of the legs was not even in the housing kept up by Silicon alone

 

[afright]

Did a job for a mate of mine on a site with 14 houses he had to finish after the builder went bust all the bathrooms were finish tiled except one including tiled bathpanels , I tiled the last one and cut in an expection panel notice the plumber had not fitted any legs,my mate had to rip every panel off ,every single bath had no legs the baths were just sitting on the frames.

 

[prceramics]

Omg that's bad