Does it mean you are a bad tiler if you have slow patches?

[Brian the Tile]

Not sure how it works over there but here on the commercial stuff it the lowest quote gets the job, plus depending on the size you might have to do some work for free for contractor in his holiday home. So you can be flat out and not making money

i wont be moving to ireland then lol,

 

[CJ]

i wont be moving to ireland then lol,

Thought slavery was abolished??

Can you imagine working for a gobby builder, and then getting told to tile HIS holiday home for free.
Second word would be "Off"

 

[Brian the Tile]

Please dont take offence here the diving tiler,i have a irish friend here who said to his boss, stick my job up your a..e i can get less money for more work up the road

 

[Brian the Tile]

and he couldnt find a fish and chip shop in blackpool

 

[Dougs Third Go]

This place really does make me laugh some of the time

Am I the only one here that feels like hitting my head off a brick wall?? The market place is the truest most accurate datum as measure how good one is at what they do regardless of what that is, in our most of our cases, we sell a tiling service. Some tilers specialise in high end work, some specialise in low end / high volume, but they are both obviously providing a good product if there diary is full. Does it make the individual a better 'tiler' is the question here? No. But the question is not accurate, what we should be asking is are we selling a better product? Who cares if you are a 'good tiler', What does that even mean? We could be here for years discussing that and I simply not qualified to judge as I have never employed any to compare.

I am in a lucky situation just now where I am very busy, I don't consider myself to be as good a tiler as many on here who I know come from a more tiling background but I know I'm making a good living and I'm selling a good product.

load of ********, there's all sorts determine how busy you can be/not be and none of it has any bearing on the standard of your work. Say you live in a town that has high employment for decades, plenty of work about then overnight that town's main employer goes belly-up, loads of people out of work then the knock on effect starts, usually with the building renovation trades....so, say I've had my diary full all my working life and then the town I ply my trade goes bust, does that make me a bad tiler overnight?????

 

[CJ]

Flooded down my way.......lot of it since Christmas, and due to get worse.

I am quiet at the moment........but hopefully when the floods DO go, work will pick up.

Maybe in 6 months/years time.......I will do a mass advertisement in the worst areas. I did not too bad last year after the not as bad flooding.

So I must be crap????

 

[widler]

Flooded down my way.......lot of it since Christmas, and due to get worse.

I am quiet at the moment........but hopefully when the floods DO go, work will pick up.

Maybe in 6 months/years time.......I will do a mass advertisement in the worst areas. I did not too bad last year after the not as bad flooding.

So I must be crap????

That's the upside, loads of work after the flood

 

[Ajax123]

At the risk of being verbally abused again this thread was started because of a conversation on another tread that was a person had a bad tiling job done and came to the forum for some advice. She got good advice but when she had resolved the situation she needed a tiler to re tile the bathroom she asked on here but found a friends x was the manager of a tile shop and he recommend a tiler that tiler went and looked at the job and said he would go and sort it out the following week. She was happy with that but then the comment was made that if he was available at short notice he may not be any good. In my opinion this was a bit out of order as he came recommended by the manager of a tile shop and was fitting it in as a favour now this man may turn out to be a bad tiler or he may turn out to be a good one but I think the assumption that someone must be bad at what they do because they have a gap in there diary is pathetic.

I couldnt agree more Deano. There are loads of reasons why a tiler might have a gap in his diary and be able to sort a job at short notice.

 

[Brian the Tile]

we have had the floods here a couple of times recently and the place has been like white van man city,a lot of bungalows here been flooded the only local people making any money are the skip people, every trade seems to be from out of town , crazy insurance companys dont use local trades ( or at least they havent here),or we would be mad busy here

 

[Brian the Tile]

think ill move to brighton no shotage of work there i believe

 

[Ajax123]

So what would you say about all the tilers out there who are very busy and making a good living, having never seen there work, all you know is they are busy, would you guess they where good or bad tilers?

I would judge them on many things. Their appearance, Their manner, Thier knowledge, when they could start relative to when I wanted the job done, their price,

I will draw an analogy for you. I had a new boiler towards the end of last year. Because of the building regs I had to get a man in to get it up and running. I called I think about 7 or 8 people and not one could do the job that side of Christmas. However based on their manner on the telephone I would not have used any of them anyway. I ended up phoning my oil company who gave me the name of a guy locally who I in turn called. He was pleasant, positive, clearly knowledgeable about the current building regs etc and he gave me a price over the phone which was within my expectation. I thought he would be like the others and would not be able to do the job for some time. I was surprised when he said he could pop round the following day to check the job out and of all was as it needed to be he could do the work the following day. He turned out to be really helpful and the work he did was clean, tidy, neat and above all safe and legal. He took payment with a card machine and left me with the relevent paperwork and a certificate of warranty for his work. When I asked him if he was busy he said not as busy as he would like to be but that in the twenty or so years he had been in te trade he had been through quiet times before and the recession had not helped him one bit as folk were not spending the money. He was a really good quality tradesman as I judged and yet he was having a quiet time..... I have recomended him to a few freinds and he has worked for at least 2 of them (one of whom is a neighbour) and they had similar experiences with the guy.

The market for boiler fitters running up to Christmas is hugely busy and yet tis good quality tradesman was finding things quiet....

 

[Spud]

Charlie fiat sell more cars than Ferrari does that make fiat a better car ?

 

[charlie1]

I give up with this one. To all the successful tilers out there with full diaries for your efforts in the past resulting in multiple recommendations, you should be proud of yourselves! And to the good tilers with no work I sympathise! I stand by every word I said though.

 

[radim]

Charlie fiat sell more cars than Ferrari does that make fiat a better car ?

not sure as I never drove fiat:lol:

 

[charlie1]

Charlie fiat sell more cars than Ferrari does that make fiat a better car ?

Do fiat not own Ferrari?