Don't you just love it

[turnip]

Theres nothing like a major balls up is there? Took on a last minute commercial job in London, an easy 70 m2 of porcs, to help out a builder under pressure, let down by his own tilers, blah,blah.
Had to be finished and should have been finished before Xmas, would have been finished aswell. Only the builder didn't supply enough tiles. Which were not in stock in the UK, when we ran out of tiles. 4 days before Xmas.
I can only guess the penalties on this job (tens of thousands per week maybe?). Because they organised a courier to drive to Italy to pick up more tiles, after asking the tile factory to open for one day after Xmas to enable the job to get finished.
Tiles turned up yesterday, one of my fixers is in town today to finish everything up, he calls me at lunchtime. Yes you guessed it, builder still didn't supply enough tiles to finish the job. He's probably hung himself by now. :lol:

 

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

Sounds like a typical builder,

 

[White Room]

How did he get that soooooooooooo wrong......

 

[John Benton]

Haha measure 20 times, order once or twice or even 3 times. What a numpty!!!

 

[Bubblecraft]

Nasty! Poor guy. He's got a lot to answer for

 

[Alan.P]

Oh dear Ali, is that the job we spoke of ?

 

[afright]

Still he's keeping the courier in work.

 

[Andy Allen]

makes you wonder how they stay in buisness !!, didnt you tell him how many more you needed? or was he trying to be a smart arse, and get the bear minimum, better make sure he dosnt try to recoup any money, off what he owes you.....

 

[MTiler]

Ive found builders cant use a tape measure and dont know how to work out the m2, bless em.

 

[Perry]

How did he get that soooooooooooo wrong......

One word Mark----------builder

 

[Alan M]

i once was on a job and was asked to fit a radiator cover before i left. (it was abot 4 and i was on day rate and finished so it didnt matter i could just leave on the hour) i said no problem but iv no plugs or screws(i was fitting a floor and only had long screw in the van) so off he went to the hardware to get some. he comes back with 4 screws and 4 plugs.
i was in shock. talk about mean . it must be just something in some peoples heads. i know loads of people that wont buy any more than the exact mathematical amount required. total nightmare
im the oposite. i would have bought a box of screws and a pack of plugs just to have they if i ever needed them again

 

[Andy Allen]

i find that with builders, if they need 10m2 of tiles they get 9 or 8 or the really tight ones get 7 and ask for big grout joints....lol

 

[Peter]

Once worked for a builder who would never let you centre anything. Full tile down two sides so he could save a metre per floor. :lol:

 

[redmist6]

I had the same thing with a builder, but on every single job I'd come up way short....in the end I offered to measure up free of charge coz it was wrecking my schedule every time....smh:whistling:

 

[jonnyc]

i had one a year ago. i gave actual area plus area to include wastage . think it was about 60 sq mts actual for a master bathroom and wet room.allowed 8 sq mts wastage.
builder ordered and added only one metre for wastage.
result was ran out couldnt get more same grey shade and so he had to dismantle whole bathroom
and start again .cost about 8n grand extra i think !!