Hows the work situation update.?

[DHTiling]

Just checking how you guys/gals are doing for work...?

I'm off yesterday/today as i walked off a job, just incase you wonder why i am posting during the day...:smilewinkgrin:..

Anyway..hows it going folks..?

 

[diamondtiling]

I have had nothing this week, very little booked at all, 4 Insurance jobs in the pipeline, 3 prices with customers, waiting for an answer from them. I have to meet at a job next friday and hopefully get it. Never known it to be so quiet. I cant tidy my van anymore, its gleaming.

 

[DHTiling]

I'm sorry to hear that mate...are all your contacts quiet as well.?

 

[doug boardley]

bitty, jobs in pipeline tho

 

[david campbell]

looks like it's picking up,got back from my hols yesterday and have got 3 quotes to do and a kitchen to start as soon as i am ready(also got my mates kitchen but i'll leave that in case it's a false dawn)was actually wondering why you where posting at this time dave..:lol:,not good when you have to walk off a job though

 

[DHTiling]

It's not dave...but this builders idea of a wetroom wasn't mine...


All i can say is a cheese grating trampoline springs to mind...:mad2:...so it was a no go...but apart from that..i am booked into november...

I just hope you guys are picking up as well as it was quiet earlier in the year.

 

[diamondtiling]

Fitness first have a stop on all refurb except emergencys, no-one is selling cars so no new builds, marks and spencer have stopped all non essential maintenance. A civil engineering company that I subby for have laid 6 off, no-one is building anything. I do a bit for temples property management and I have a few in the offing with them, to be honest if I got just 2 of those it would give me 2 months work. I have an 80 mtr trav with ufh, everything is there, just waiting for the customer (my mate) to get some money in.
It will come back.

:8:

 

[david campbell]

It's not dave...but this builders idea of a wetroom wasn't mine...


All i can say is a cheese grating trampoline springs to mind...:mad2:...so it was a no go...but apart from that..i am booked into november...

I just hope you guys are picking up as well as it was quiet earlier in the year.

better to walk away now mate,especially if it looks like one of those:mad2: situations,sounds like he knows how to do your job better than you:drool5:

 

[DHTiling]

I'm sure it will .....it's just a case of riding it out...but easier said than done when peeps are finding it hard to make ends meet...work is out there but just not as abundant in some area's as it is in others.

 

[doug boardley]

trying to visualise a cheese grating trampoline, sounds painful:20:

 

[DHTiling]

better to walk away now mate,especially if it looks like one of those:mad2: situations,sounds like he knows how to do your job better than you:drool5:

The builder knows me better but i reied not to leave him in the lurch and actually contacted a couple tilers on here to see if they could squeeze it in once he sorted it, but he sems to have found someone...so you loose some , you win some...but i won't cut corners...wish i had took pics..:smilewinkgrin:

 

[DHTiling]

trying to visualise a cheese grating trampoline, sounds painful:20:

18mm ply onto joist on hangers..no noggins at wall sides or centres.

wall tanking...:lol: if you call it that was one lash over of ardex kit but you could see through it and the taping in the corners had no tanking on it...

So all in all it was a bouncy trampoline floor with cheese grater walls...:smilewinkgrin:, he rang me back an h our later to say he had sorted it...:lol:..

I refused to go back and hence giving him time to do it right and i tried to get a tiler from tilers forums as i didn't have time to go back...as it needed 3 days and after his cok up i didnt have the days...

 

[doug boardley]

since my last post.. 3 bathrooms and a utility room at Newby Bridge to do and a bathroom/wetroom up near my mums house, right next to where I go salmon fishing at this time of year... happy days

 

[stevee]

this is my second week with no work , but i dont expect to be chocker as i only started up 7 weeks ago, still ,i keep wearing my shirts with logo, and ill be moochin around the superstores on monday, might try and ring a couple of busy plumbers too........

 

[chris.tiling]

got three days next week then nothing til the 28th. Been round all the local tile shops today and they say they have been deathly quiet for the past two weeks. I guess it is because it is end of school hols so should start picking up soon. This is the first time I have been this quiet since I started up. I know things will turn up, but I am beginning to worry, so will be trawling the car parks in the DIY sheds etc soon (looking for work, not any other pervy reason....honest!)