Argh!!! Know-it-all builders!!!

[The D]

Nice one m8 I'm glad it all worked out for you

 

[Muse2k8]

Cheers guys

 

[bugs183]

It's all too easy to get wound up in situations like this, and expect nothing but trouble and arguments.
But if you take a while to step back, and just think of how to approach it, and how to state the facts it's quite usual that you can resolve these problems easier than you think.
I was chatting to Siramic the other day, (nice one for lending me the hydrometer by the way), and as he says with the knowledge that is being shared off this forum you can go into jobs with far more confidence and state the reasons why things have to be done properly.
Good to hear it's all turned out well, you'll have put yourself up the pecking order on the job too in the builders eyes as he can see you're trying to do him a good job.

 

[cam_low]

Good ending to the story, Im sick of hearing everyday how many builders are tiling and I can only imagine what mistakes they are making

 

[garybadger]

I had a job booked in for 2 months. 164m2 off porcelain 600x100, 600x300 and 600x600 and some travertine mosaic wet floors.. 1 week before I was due to start, got a phone call from the builder. The owner of the house had been speaking to a Polish builder, who had tilers on his books. Asked how much the builder was charging per m2, and then continued to blow us out the water price wise.
Labour wise doing porcelain and travertine mosaic tiles and self levelling, supplying all adhesive's grout, silicone, trim and self leveller. The guy told him he could do it for £20.00m2 cash. ALL IN. Absolutely incredible price.
Builder had to phone me and ask if I could match it. Told him I wouldn't even get out my bed to work for the equivalent of £7-8m2 (if your lucky with material) If he's building out, then it clearly goes lower as he will have extra costs.

Guy has went in and started the tiling. Used Granfix paste, and homeplan heavy duty paste for the porcelain walls. His tiles on the travertine wet floor are coming up already. 2 rows had to be re-fixed the day after they broke off when stood on.

Sole destroying that this bum has went in and took this job from me. I've tiled the guys hotels, and his previous house, and not had 1 complaint. Only lost this job because this guy was so cheap.

Hope he continues to mess this up, just to show the difference between a cowboy and a proper tiler. Rant over

 

[Dan]

Jobs like that always come right back around to good tilers though Gary. And hopefully, lesson learnt from the builder too!

 

[Gazzer]

Nice to meet you too Bugs, its a Hygrometer actually... :smilewinkgrin:. I hope you got the readings you were hoping for

It's all too easy to get wound up in situations like this, and expect nothing but trouble and arguments.
But if you take a while to step back, and just think of how to approach it, and how to state the facts it's quite usual that you can resolve these problems easier than you think.
I was chatting to Siramic the other day, (nice one for lending me the hydrometer by the way), and as he says with the knowledge that is being shared off this forum you can go into jobs with far more confidence and state the reasons why things have to be done properly.
Good to hear it's all turned out well, you'll have put yourself up the pecking order on the job too in the builders eyes as he can see you're trying to do him a good job.

 

[bugs183]

You got me there Siramic!
I got the reading i wanted ta, i turned up at the job and a very worried builder was on site. He asked what i was doing there, then informed me the slab had only been down two weeks! Despite the customer saying it been down for well over a month!
We both agreed the same drying times, agreed i had tested the floor, shook hands, i got in my van and then off i went to Berlin on a very boozy trip!