Cowboy Builders

[Daz]

Have just e mailed the builder. as follows......will I get a response?????

"I write in reference to this week’s program from Taunton and more specifically the tiling method employed when doing the bathroom.
The program showed your tiler using a ‘Dot and Dab’ method for the fixing of the wall tiles.
Any professional tiler would tell you that this method in the trade is considered to be a method employed by the novice or the cowboy and is not a recognised fixing method as it can lead to a multitude of problems, especially in a wet environment.
I understand the restraints put on an individual whilst being in front of a camera, having had the experience myself, however as the title of the program suggests, that it is produced to highlight the failings of ‘Cowboy Builders’, how can you justify using ‘Cowboy Techniques’ in putting right the errors of others and misleading Joe Public in believing that this is an acceptable method of tile installation?

I look forward to your comments.

P.Robinson"

I'm curious.....did you get a response??

 

[Rob Z]

One of the best ones I ever saw on TV was a show where the "Pros" were remodeling a bathroom. They installed large (~18" X 198") porcelain tile over plywood with mastic and used a large notch trowel (I think it was a 3/4" U notch 19 mm in the UK ) and skimmed the back of each tile with more mastic as he set it.

OK, this gets better...

The floor had electric in-floor heat, bedded in the mastic setting bed for the tiles.:yikes::yikes:

Even better: he cut a long channel in the plywood with a jigsaw so that he could get rid of the thick leads that led from the thermostat to the mat. This channel was about 2 feet long X an inch wide.

Cowboy, hack, butcher, sxxt for brains...take your pick, this guy was it. :incazzato: