Have you ever been knocked ?

[Spud]

2 lads who worked for me before xmas tiled a bathroom and toilet in a rented house near me ,one of the tilers is very experienced the other is an improver(coming along nicely) the landlord of the property complained that the borders were installed at different heights and refused to pay for the job approxaimately 30msq ,i supplied the tiles adhesive and grout, the 2 guys tiled the rooms ,this gentleman has took 3 months to decide he doesnt want the tiles and has asked me to remove them , I am going round there on monday I will post some pics of the job and you guys can tell me what you think .
Have any of you guys/gals ever been stitched up and been done over by dishonourable customers ?

 

[wivers]

Yup and lets just leave it at that!!

 

[Alan.P]

Sorry to hear it mate, no I haven't, are you getting any money from the install at all ? Are you getting paid for removal, and do you get much work from him, if no to al, I would go round, put a ball hammer through every tile and walk.

'kin :mad2: :incazzato: :incazzato:

 

[hillhead]

Thats bad Gary,some people are just impossible,i finished a floor today for a guy,only after he paid me this morning before he left for work,i had feeling he wouldn't pay so i had tiles in my van to finish his floor incase i got done over !!! it ended ok luckily.times are hard out there.

 

[doug boardley]

luckily for me, no, but just because times are hard doesn't mean people should rip you off

 

[White Room]

Three months to decide that he dos'nt like the tiles, hack the tiles off, then he'll want the walls reanstated them to there original condition next.

Yes I have been knocked and know many others that have been aswell

 

[brian c]

once...for ..yes you guessed it...a builder.

 

[LM Ceramics]

yep had a problem with a recent bathroom i tiled i placed some border were i thought the customer wanted them i even told the customer to show me were she wanted them then changed her mind at the last minute and ill leave it at that:mad2::mad2:

 

[david campbell]

happened once,turned out the person was infamous for it!wished i had known about it before starting and would really have made a mess of there house!

absolutely abhor people like that,it causes you to mistrust people for ages!

 

[doug boardley]

"Roger" doesn't really count 'cos i get paid for his incompetence!

 

[cornish_crofter]

Not happened to me yet.

Having said that I'm always sure it's around the corner. My customers come to me word of mouth so it tends to keep the likelihood of that happening down a bit.

I'm also 6ft 4in, and as one of our friends, who is also a regular customer of mine, pointed out, that fact alone does make it less likely. She said that I fill door ways.

 

[CJ]

Not happened to me yet.

Having said that I'm always sure it's around the corner. My customers come to me word of mouth so it tends to keep the likelihood of that happening down a bit.

I'm also 6ft 4in, and as one of our friends, who is also a regular customer of mine, pointed out, that fact alone does make it less likely. She said that I fill door ways.

So your fat then :smilewinkgrin:

 

[Leatherface]

Yes been knocked once, did work for a joiner, one subby job and tiling at his own house, never paid me, or the plasterer or plumber.
I am biding my time !! Just lets say his nice new van is parked outside his house every night in a lovely quite cul de sac. There are a few people who are willing to make sure that it is well looked after !!

 

[theyomper]

Got took for £75000 back in the late 90's by a hotel owner. Not tiling though ...soft furnishings and carpet. Never again

 

[Leatherface]

Got took for £75000 back in the late 90's by a hotel owner. Not tiling though ...soft furnishings and carpet. Never again

Ouch !!!! :incazzato::incazzato:

 

[beanz]

Not personally, but when i was roofing, two guys i worked for were knocked so many times they went out of business, which put me out of work too. One in the late 80's, the other in the mid 90's. Both knocked by big companies. :incazzato:

 

[tileform]

A few years ago when i was installing garage doors an asian guy refused to pay for his door
When i fitted for asian guys, i always used to programme an extra remote just in case
I was in the middle of taking down his brand new garage door (it comes down a lot quicker than it goes up!!)when he turned up :mad2:

I told him if he wanted to keep his door he now had to pay me to re-install it - In CASH, as well as the original money he owed me

Never seen a wad of cash that fat in my life

For some reason i didnt get a recommendation from him :lol:

 

[CJ]

Never been knocked.

But god help anyone who did.

I'm only a small guy, but I can be a vindictive B'steward if tucked up. It would cost them a darn sight more than they did me for :ninja::ninja::ninja::ninja:

 

[beanz]

At least you can claim it back through your tax, so it's not the end of the world.

 

[cornish_crofter]

A plumber friend of mine got knocked for £10k by a well known holiday park chain. Why he didn't pursue it I don't know, he must have had a lot going on at the time.

 

[cornish_crofter]

Big companies developed a habit of doing this in the late 80s and early 90s. They would reduce payments to subbies justified by a load of 'snagging' issues. Most of them just took what was offered and moved on, a few stuck it out and fought.

That sort of thing put me off site work for life!

 

[beanz]

Big companies developed a habit of doing this in the late 80s and early 90s. They would reduce payments to subbies justified by a load of 'snagging' issues. Most of them just took what was offered and moved on, a few stuck it out and fought.

That sort of thing put me off site work for life!

Same thing's happening now, it's a recession thing. I know a site agent that was getting in lots of contractors (a lot of them were good friends), and the company he worked for was just bumping them, and expecting him to get more contractors to replace the one's they'd bumped!?! He ended up jacking, as it was his reputaion that was going down the pan!

I won't work on site's either mate, my time roofing put me off for life!

 

[White Room]

Big companies developed a habit of doing this in the late 80s and early 90s. They would reduce payments to subbies justified by a load of 'snagging' issues. Most of them just took what was offered and moved on, a few stuck it out and fought.

That sort of thing put me off site work for life!

Retentions was another way guys were getting knocked

 

[strummerman]

never work for travellers they will ripyou off striaght away there are loads around were i live . they agree a price then bid you down and when you av finished they wont pay up

 

[beanz]

never work for travellers they will ripyou off striaght away there are loads around were i live . they agree a price then bid you down and when you av finished they wont pay up

Amen to that, loads round here too.. :incazzato: