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

[Stef]

and if things would go through for me the replies are there lol

Yeah, we are all waiting on your 10%s worth!!!

 

[Brian the Tile]

Stef your supposed to be on a stag night ,dont let me spoil it for you, go and enjoy yourself man

 

[Brian the Tile]

if its a short post it goes through, if its a long rant it wont go through anyone know why ,without any insults please ,lol

 

[Brian the Tile]

and you Stef dont be drinking to much or you will never get to them 23 jobs you have to look at at your leisure lol

 

[Gazzer]

Have you tried writing it in "Word" and pasting it in here ?

 

[Stef]

and you Stef dont be drinking to much or you will never get to them 23 jobs you have to look at at your leisure lol

Looking for a good tiler to clear my feet, come up & I will split the work straight down the middle with you..
I'm serious!!

 

[Brian the Tile]

its a good offer Stef ,but a bit to far for my horse ,ha ha ha , but thanks if you are serious,dont take things to heart its just banter,i can take it aswell as give it ,now im serious ,you go and have a cracking night

 

[Stef]

Cheers.

 

[area tiling]

Doesn't mean your a bad tiler at all , we all have quiet spells and purple patches! You know yourself that you could be talking to tilers in your area one month that are flat out, and your not! And the next time you bump into them their twiddling their thumbs and your complaining about being to busy !

 

[Tony73]

I had very bad year 2013, lost few big contracts etc. but started very strong this year from January 3. Have work for next 4-5 months.

 

[Dougs Third Go]

when I finish the bathroom I'm doing at the moment I've no work booked in, so I hope slack periods don't mean I'm a bad tiler.:yikes:

 

[charlie1]

All tilers are good so long as they are making a living from there trade and doing decent work. if your quiet enough not to be making a living from your trade then I'd question if I was a tiler at all.

 

[Andy Allen]

I got work till Thursday next week then nowt....however im looking at 3 jobs Monday and Tuesday evening, and I got a bit in the pipe line, so im not that bothered its very seldom I go a whole week without doing something, but the days of being booked up for 4/5 weeks have well gone for me and have been for the last 3 years, I could be more booked up but made a decision last year to stop working for builders that I didn't know, if its right or wrong to do that, im not that bothered as my stress levels have gone down loads, as I got so fed up fighting for my money.

most of my jobs are repeat customers or recommendation so they know what there getting, and if I can start the next day they are more than happy with that as who wants to wait months to have there tiling done....?

 

[Ajax123]

The building trade generally has always gone through feast and famine cycles. What happens in the famine stages in my experience is that grades people diversify. Electricians become plumbers as well, bricklayers take on plastering jobs, carpenters take on bricklaying jobs, roofers become tilers sort of thing. That means that you get a lot of inexperienced tradespeople coming in to the frame and because punters generally are either gullible or greedy (go for the cheapest price) these lesser trades people eat into the available work.

January this year thoug has been a bit odd from the screeds point of view. Some areas have been going like a train and Palme like a lame donkey. Things will stabilise and pick up this year though I think and the amount of available work will increase. Once this happens the rubbish trades will get weeded out as they **** things up and get back to their proper trade.

 

[Peter]

I'm not the best tiler about by any stretch of the imagination but if I'm out of work and have nothing on I'd rather price a bathroom at £300 for 3 days work and get it than price it at £500 and sit in the house. If I have nothing on at all and look at a job, I will never tell the customer I'm quiet but say I might be able to fit it in for them next week as I have a job booked in that's not urgent. Know another tiler who's always slack and tells customers how quiet he is, I don't think it helps his case any.

There's always something to do if you look for it, if I have nothing on then I will ring round all the tilers I know and one of them will usually give me a few days work, then I return the favour when I'm busy and they're slack.

All swings and roundabouts, there's one week where you take 5 days to do a 3 day job just to bluff the week out, then other weeks when you're working 15 hour days to try and get caught up.

Then there's the phenomenon of having no work after the end of the week but when the phone rings once it rings all day, and you end up with a month's bookings.

 

[Brian the Tile]

All tilers are good so long as they are making a living from there trade and doing decent work. if your quiet enough not to be making a living from your trade then I'd question if I was a tiler at all.

charlie 1 are you for real,so after 40 odd years ive got to question myself as to whether im a tiler or not, i dont know whether you are awind up merchant ,but yo talk utter C..P

 

[charlie1]

charlie 1 are you for real,so after 40 odd years ive got to question myself as to whether im a tiler or not, i dont know whether you are awind up merchant ,but yo talk utter C..P

You still here? Thought you where away! Your always saying things on here then not doing it... All talk! Can only assume your all talk in the real world too brian.

 

[CJ]

Oh poo, here we go again. :sofahide:

 

[widler]

Aye, can't wait

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

Cheers.
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Hells bells Stef, You all look like the kind of people I could do with now, you all look hard and honest men, I'm not sure who you are from the photo mate, but I am glad, I can be your friend. I would never want to cross you,

 

[Andy Allen]

That's all the mates he met while on his holiday. ..lol

 

[Brian the Tile]

dont wait to long for my reply ,im not biting for somebody with so little experience

 

[afright]

I'm slack at the moment and loving having a bit of time off, I know work will come in so don't think I'm worried to much.

 

[Tony73]

jou!!!!!!!!!! andy allen 5001 posts :hurray:

 

[Ajax123]

All tilers are good so long as they are making a living from there trade and doing decent work. if your quiet enough not to be making a living from your trade then I'd question if I was a tiler at all.

Hmm. So let's say you are a great tiler and you work in a general radius of say fifty miles from your home. A recession hits, and hits bloody hard as in 2008 and all of a sudden most of the builders, plumbers, carpenters, roofers, sparks, plasterers, screeders etc etc in that area are suddenly out of their regular jobs.( I can tell you that the level of screeds installed in 2008 was less than 50% of that in 2007, and we are only just returning to the 2007 volumes and I cannot imagine tiling is much different) All of them have to earn a living and with the majority of good self employed tradespeople they can turn their hands to most things. So some of them and did take to tiling. Let's us now imagine that whilst you were one of ten tilers in your patch Nd their were say ten jobs a month available. Now all of a sudden their are twenty tilers and only four jobs a month available. Two things happen immediately, prices drop and general quality decreases. You as a great tiler have to start making cuts in order to keep making a living, your prices will drop and the amount of work you have will decrease. Does that make you a poor tiler, of course not. It is simply a case of supply and demand. What you have said is I'm my humble non tilers opinion, c**p. just because you not busy enough to make a living does not mean you are not a tiler....