Do councils have real tilers

[Eddie]

I went to price a job yesterday. The council had been in to tile the bathroom, before she moved in. It is some of the worst tiling i have seen. They stopped tiling two tiles below the sink, and left the rest of the wall bare. There is hardly a straight or even grout line, to be seen/. I will post some photos, when i start the job, next week.

 

[doug boardley]

no they don't Eddie, the council pay peanuts and get monkeys, no offence intended to any council workers😳

 

[CJ CERAMICS]

the council here dont employ tilers they just usually have a labourer do it. when i applied this is what they told me lol...oh they also said that if i was to tile in any property that was owned by the council the customer would have to gain written permission from them which i would have to see and present a written quote with contact details to say so, as they consider this to be major rennovation of council property and has to be inspected to ensure that it is inkeeping with council standards toward home improvement, and that it was my responsability to inform the client of this.

 

[White Room]

My home which is a housing association and we have just had the kitchens done, the kitchen fitters and plumbers were the tilers and plasterers of bonding plaster to fill the walls destoyed by the electrians who could'nt put 2 syllables of english together.
The answer to your question is no as far as I'm concerned in my circumstances, dot and dab comes to mind for the tiling, I done the grouting which a bit of a blessing.:incazzato:

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Eddie - There was a recent thread that called it multi-tasking!

They get trained to do more than one job.

Go put it right Eddie

John.

 

[doug boardley]

a couple of years ago I was offered the post of Maintainence Surveyor of Building by our local council, it was an ok package financially, but what made me turn it down was having to try and manage a group of "tradesmen" that had failed in private sector

 

[Eddie]

She doesn't want it re-tiled, she only wants it tiled to the floor, and some tiling in the kitchen. I think she's happy with it.:yikes:

 

[faithhealer]

Eddie - There was a recent thread that called it multi-tasking!

They get trained to do more than one job.

Go put it right Eddie

John.

Get that chip off your shoulder John lol Council workers just don't get trained, salting roads in winter, cutting grass in summer, tiling inbetween, all in a days work for them lol

 

[Olz]

All the council houses round here were taken over by the housing association, which I think is still the council with a different name, probably some tax fiddle.

Anyhow when they took over they redid my grandads kitchen and bathroom, and also fitted a new combi and central heating system, new windows and doors and redecorated a room of his choice. The kitchens not bad tiling wise, the bathrooms terrible, but he did manage to convince them that they'd said it was ok to have a free walk in shower / bath when it was actually a quite expensive extra option. :lol:

The spark that did the rewire was hopeless, the the proch and kitchen light switches were on a two gang switch, but when you turned on the kitchen light the porch one went off and visa versa, they also left him without central heating for four days and without a kitchen sink for a week :incazzato:

 

[faithhealer]

Did some emergency plumbing cover for the local council last year, out of 35 call outs in a week I'd say that half were due to neglect on the previous (council) plumbers, leaks caused by fibre washers missing etc