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

[Brian the Tile]

i also like a challenge

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i have to put it in bits or i cant post for some reason

 

[Brian the Tile]

not a spce hopper just well built

 

[Brian the Tile]

if your there charlie lets get this back to tiling eh

 

[Stef]

must have been a good stag eh

Absolutely fantastic,
My m8 had a ball in the strippers,
He loved seeing me in suspenders!!

 

[Brian the Tile]

i am a good tiler ,just quiet at the mo ,the way things are im afraid

 

[jonnyc]

Just been reading this thread and tacked back to some of 1st job.
I nearly lost my business beginning last year because I employ 5tilers full time and I hit a bad patch for first time in 25 plus years.
i don't think my company is bad at our job though.i survived by offering greatly reduced rates to old clients cleaning and resealing floors that we have fixed over the years.

also did a number of fixing jobs , in fact gary the tiler very kindly put me on to one of his old customers who was a real perfectionist but you know what Charlie he was really pleased to get me in a quiet time and me him.he didn't know me from adam but he let me loose in his pristine house. Gary had never seen our work in person.the client was not suspicious just grateful I think to get someone at short notice who I hope turned out a good job . I got paid!!!

 

[Brian the Tile]

Absolutely fantastic,
My m8 had a ball in the strippers,
He loved seeing me in suspenders!!

good man ,cant beat a good stag night

 

[The D]

Just been reading this thread and tacked back to some of 1st job.
I nearly lost my business beginning last year because I employ 5tilers full time and I hit a bad patch for first time in 25 plus years.
i don't think my company is bad at our job though.i survived by offering greatly reduced rates to old clients cleaning and resealing floors that we have fixed over the years.

also did a number of fixing jobs , in fact gary the tiler very kindly put me on to one of his old customers who was a real perfectionist but you know what Charlie he was really pleased to get me in a quiet time and me him.he didn't know me from adam but he let me loose in his pristine house. Gary had never seen our work in person.the client was not suspicious just grateful I think to get someone at short notice who I hope turned out a good job . I got paid!!!

Amen to that

 

[charlie1]

Just been reading this thread and tacked back to some of 1st job.
I nearly lost my business beginning last year because I employ 5tilers full time and I hit a bad patch for first time in 25 plus years.
i don't think my company is bad at our job though.i survived by offering greatly reduced rates to old clients cleaning and resealing floors that we have fixed over the years.

also did a number of fixing jobs , in fact gary the tiler very kindly put me on to one of his old customers who was a real perfectionist but you know what Charlie he was really pleased to get me in a quiet time and me him.he didn't know me from adam but he let me loose in his pristine house. Gary had never seen our work in person.

We all get quiet spells. But you reinforce my point Johnny!! Your quality of work is at the very top, and you say you hit your first quiet spell for 25 years, that makes sense to me, even for a guy that employs 5 tilers. I have ambition to expand and pass on my skill one day, not that I ever want off the tools, I just want bigger projects to challenge but that's for another thread.

 

[jonnyc]

The other thing I noticed looking back at Brian the tile post was that he said he would not want to be paid till he had done job to satisfaction.
i found this interesting as Phil Hobson said same thing about a recent job he now has a problem on.
i think this is an old school outlook and nothing wrong with it.
but in this day and age I think clients are not as honourable as they were.
i am not old school but have been in tiling over 25years .i have never done a job without taking at least material deposit to book my time in.
you probably won't believe it but there was a long period when I took materials plus 50 percent labour just to book me in.
this is another debate.

 

[Brian the Tile]

yes jonny i can see your point there with taking a deposit ,and have often said that i would do that also,i suppose i have been lucky in my time as that has only happened to me once ,and i went in with my hammer and smashed every tile i had fixed but that also is another tale,i am owed no money thank the lord

 

[jonnyc]

Last point I want to make is that up until few years ago I had never been on a forum and even now never been on a forum for anything other than tiling.
i think we in this country have a trade in tiling that is probably like no other in western world .
Rainer from germany who is a member here and a tiler of the highest quality I have ever seen , loves this forum for the simple reason that we have such a mix of tilers. In his country the pros who do time served courses like he did would not even consider talking or communicating to self taught /short course tilers.
there is such a cross section of probably four types of tilers in this country who have strived and now make a living and forums like this give us all an opportunity to learn a bit from each other.respect is due to all who are ultimately in the same boat

 

[Stef]

Jonny, well said..
If we all put out work of the standard of Rainer then it would be a very different world we live in..

 

[Brian the Tile]

I also felt so bad for Phil and that could happe to any one of us ,it happened to mea long while ago and now i tend to let people know the situation and state payment on completion of work,we are the only trade i think where people expect credit ,you cant go to tesco and tell them you will pay next week,

 

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

What happend to phil then Brian ?