Getting paid (commercial work)

[Simon benn Leeds]

Tried to get the other trades back, no chance,
It's hard when your at site level with the site manager agreeing to stuff and director arguing the toss after.
Maybe a haymaker is in order lol.

This is what I was up against, the photo is the back of a tile on the riser part of a step, you can see the depth that the latex would be on the tread to level the steps up.

 

[Dan]

Christ that's bad!

 

[Simon benn Leeds]

I bedded the tiles out that much because the whole extension was out of square to the main kitchen wall (my setting out point and the point of visual importance) which then leads to being out of parallel to the stairs,
Had to reduce the 80mm difference over the 2 steps by fanning the cuts and scribing the tiles to look square but reduce the 80mm in stages to get back to square and parallel to the stair well through the other room in the existing building (if that makes any sense).
Not an easy task even for experienced tilers.

Not even a pat on the back from the builder for getting him out out the s--t big time!. But instead getting accused of dressing up my quants Come on ffs proofs there.

 

[White Room]

Builder are never wrong Simon so they keep telling me😡

 

[John Benton]

I don't work for builders!........sorted! 🙂

Ditto

 

[Andy Allen]

Double ditto......ain't worth the hassle. .

 

[Spare Tool]

I worked for a construction company on and off for 6 years..usually around 600sqm jobs.
1 week in hand is as far as I was ever in deep with em, work a week, measure up what's grouted on the Friday and if the cheques wasn't on the doorstep following Friday no return monday...they never missed a payment once!
You gotta set your payment terms before you start and stick to em..

 

[Simon benn Leeds]

its just wrong in this country how the system works, never favours the little guys.

Going through an administration at the moment @John Benton might of heard of wood Mitchell Plc pudsey? For 20k and I'll be lucky to get 20p in the pound.

Administrators have declared their fees..
Averaging.....
£ 392.00 per hour, securing a contract until sept 2016.
Germany, supply chain paid first, tax man next, administrators last, nowt left, directors go to prison.
What happens here. they go bust and set up a new company with your money!....

 

[John Benton]

its just wrong in this country how the system works, never favours the little guys.

Going through an administration at the moment @John Benton might of heard of wood Mitchell Plc pudsey? For 20k and I'll be lucky to get 20p in the pound.

Administrators have declared their fees..
Averaging.....
£ 392.00 per hour, securing a contract until sept 2016.
Germany, supply chain paid first, tax man next, administrators last, nowt left, directors go to prison.
What happens here. they go bust and set up a new company with your money!....

Yes have heard of them, they were a well established long standing company, never done any work for them, prefer just to have my domestic customers. Very rarely do commercial work or subbing, maybe thats a godsend, you don't make masses of money but by the same token you don't get hit for large sums

 

[Rizzle from the Portizzle]

think of it in this way you are sitting at home having a beer theres a knock on the door you open it there stands some you have never seen in your life you say hello can i help you .he says yes you can i would like to borrow £20000 .if you dont mind putting your house on the line for me and your marrage .i may pay you back on time but i dout it .i will probaly discount it .keep 5% just dont feel like giving it back make up some reason i always do .and will always pay you half what your exspecting .while having yet again a great holiday while you cant .and have you seen my new top of the range car just love free banking .so mr mug have you got any cash on you now i fancy a take away on the way home .well every time you come across a new builder his last banker just gone bust dont let it be you