Anyone can tile – can’t they?

[mz30]

Thats fair enough diamond,but at the end of the day they are only managers who answer to the owners,who pay the builders,who have the final say on what they deem exceptable obviously the owner of said club has let it go.

Am not defending the work in any way shape or form(its ****)but its been passed by the owner,and unless every member is a tiler and complains nothing will be done.

 

[brinkley]

They (management ) should care about it isnt it supposed to be a gym you dont pay through the nose to look at crap once youve finished your sweaty work out . It should be a pleasurable experience from start to finish .(gym surroundings i mean)

 

[Sean Kelly]

They (management ) should care about it isnt it supposed to be a gym you dont pay through the nose to look at crap once youve finished your sweaty work out . It should be a pleasurable experience from start to finish .(gym surroundings i mean)

Brinkley, my Wife will not use the shower or the Ladies changing room because they are in a worse state of repair than the male changing rooms! We were told (verbally!) that all areas of the gym/changing rooms and pool would be upgraded. You are right, the experience should be a pleasurable one, but it's not.
However, I got a general broadcast email from the gym today stating that there will be disruption during the referb, and that members could use any other gym in the chain. More importantly, it stated that if any member wants to advertise their business or give discounts to other gym members then to contact the Manager.
I now need to get on the good side of the Manager, as I want to get my card on their notice board. This was an idea I tried to get the previous Manager to buy into, but he was not interested. Saying that, I will still bring to his attention the bad workmanship in the disabled area.

Cheers
Sean

 

[facetile]

:yikes: Shocker!

 

[brinkley]

Get in there sean , You never know could be a good contract for you especially if they have a chain.

 

[faithhealer]

slight tangent, apologies Sean, one of our local 'chain' of gyms are Duncan bannatynes. Stripped one of his bathrooms (he had sold his house and moved on when I worked on it) once and every tile was siliconed on lol

 

[diamondtiling]

Brinkley, my Wife will not use the shower or the Ladies changing room because they are in a worse state of repair than the male changing rooms! We were told (verbally!) that all areas of the gym/changing rooms and pool would be upgraded. You are right, the experience should be a pleasurable one, but it's not.
However, I got a general broadcast email from the gym today stating that there will be disruption during the referb, and that members could use any other gym in the chain. More importantly, it stated that if any member wants to advertise their business or give discounts to other gym members then to contact the Manager.
I now need to get on the good side of the Manager, as I want to get my card on their notice board. This was an idea I tried to get the previous Manager to buy into, but he was not interested. Saying that, I will still bring to his attention the bad workmanship in the disabled area.

Cheers
Sean

So who is the firm?

 

[White Room]

Another quality job by a not so quality tiler:yikes:

 

[hillhead]

:yikes:
It's happening everywhere unfortunately

 

[Sean Kelly]

So who is the firm?

Diamondtiling, without spelling out the name of the company I’ll give you a clue:
First part of the name is also known as the ‘City of Angels’
Second part of the name rhymes with ‘Witness’

 

[diamondtiling]

Diamondtiling, without spelling out the name of the company I’ll give you a clue:
First part of the name is also known as the ‘City of Angels’
Second part of the name rhymes with ‘Witness’

So its LA Fitness, I am surprised, I have done over 20 of their clubs in the UK and they have an unprecedented level of service.

 

[mikethetile]

ive made oak fitments for them and they have a high standard

 

[brinkley]

well thats tarnished the brush

 

[diamondtiling]

Within La Fitness the manager is usually brought in because of his/hers marketing skills, they know how to run a club, they probably have little understanding of fitness, this is left to the fitness managers. They have a duty to keep their club up to the highest standards and in turn they attract new members. If you look at the figures of a typical club, they will have upwards of 1500 members and each will pay about £30 per month, thats £45,000 minimum going through their books which equates to over half a million in cash terms, if you think their standards fall below par then complain loudly, they are a plc and they want to keep their share of the market.
Their marketing director is Dave Wickers, I have his mobile number but obviously I cant put it here, I will pass your comments on to him when I next speak with him as I think you have a justified case.

 

[davy_G]

A sign of the times unfortunately, speaking the the manager of my tile shop last week. A retired lady was in buying tiles, she was going to tile her shower and bath area herself and tilers are too expensive! I dread to think how it turned out never mind the leaks!