Do you ever get a job where nothing at all goes right?

[On one]

Well I'm on one of those bathroom refurbs at the minute.......
1 Existing 18mm WBP floor had to come up because it had 20mm of old adh on,
2 Joists under the old shower tray sloped 18mm in 800mm,
3 Joists in the rest of the floor sloped 18mm in 2000mm in the other direction,
4 Customer didn't want to use tile trims on 600x600 porcelain tiles,
5 Plumber hung the shower door hinges on the wrong way(2 600mm tiles to replace,along with PB and tanking)
6 Three 40mm holes to cut for the shower controls,very close together and close to the edge of the tile,
7 Cacky grout,
8 Ran out of tiles,
9 Not enough room to swing a cat,
10 Plumber fitted the taps to the very heavy bath whilst on the landing........very heavy bath too wide to go through the door!
11 Plumber plumbs up the free standing bath to find the the previous plumber had cut 18mm off one of the wooden bath legs(150mmx100mmx500mm battens) to try and cure problem No3,
12 Replacement brackets for shower door glass panel taking a week to arrive,
13 Replacement brackets for shower door glass panel not an exact match,

as Jimmy Cricket used to say......''theres more''

 

[mma]

Most of mine actually. Is the plumber a friend of yours?

 

[On one]

Mmmm No?
Can't really blame the plumber.....just the customer giving him duff info and an unfortunate set of circumstances.

 

[mma]

Will you replace the tiles f.o.c (no.5). What is happening about the trim? Mitre or butting up?

 

[Qwerty]

Don't you just hate jobs like that!

 

[White Room]

And I thought I had bad days...

 

[On one]

I replaced the tiles foc as the job will due to circumstances will end up being a time and materials jobs.
I managed to get my cut tile edges covered by a factory made edge on all the external corners

 

[On one]

Might have gotten away with the sloping bath but the top edge of the bath was at exactly the same level as grout joint

 

[Time's Ran Out]

As my Dad used to say 'if it was easy they'd do it themselves'.

 

[stusgsx]

Sounds like a great laugh!
im on my 3rd week of this bathroom refurb! Knocked 2 into 1, fitted new soil pipe under floor and loads of prep for free standing bath with free standing filler. Had to replace complete floor at extra cost as it was knackered oh and then they decided on travertine instead of ceramic without telling me and I had already plaster boarded! Oh and was meant to be amtico on the floor but now tiles!

 

[Sean Kelly]

I think it's a bad day when only 9 things go wrong!!......you have 13+ I think you mentioned the 600x600 no trim requirement on another thread. I would have passed the job up and stayed at home fixing my own problems (general up keep of the house). So what trim did you use in the end? and what grout did you use?

 

[Spud]

bet you will be glad to get finished on that one

 

[On one]

I think it's a bad day when only 9 things go wrong!!......you have 13+ I think you mentioned the 600x600 no trim requirement on another thread. I would have passed the job up and stayed at home fixing my own problems (general up keep of the house). So what trim did you use in the end? and what grout did you use?

I managed to work it so that every cut edge(done very nicely with a Sigma 3DM) was covered by a factory made edge. The Weber jasmine grout was supplied/chosen by the tile retailer, not my choice on this tile, heyho!
No 14.....Weber jasmine grout is not the same colour as the Weber jasmine Silicon!

 

[On one]

bet you will be glad to get finished on that one

Dreaded going back one more day than I needed to. The customer was not the most helpful or accommodating either.

 

[andy8758]

Week before last was working on tiling 3 bathrooms in a new build (private customer):

• Customer ordered 15 sq m too few tiles (despite being given exact dimensions by me);
• after laying three floors with 600x300 polished porc in straight bond pattern, I started a fourth floor and customer arrived to tell me now wanted this room brick bond - (I had dry cut half the floor by then);
• carpenters on site kept fitting doors in rooms I was about to tile floors on;
• customer twice changed specification of what was to be tiled adding extra walls;
• wanted a tiled bath panel to be removable using a very flexible 12mm ply (I insisted carpenters changed frame and ply - made me popular with them!).

But that's ok. The customer is always right..... :smilewinkgrin: