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bathroomboy
As i have said above i am multiskilled and I specialise in bathrooms, you won't find me tiling a dining room floor or a kitchen splashback, my first trade is plumbing but I do my own tiling and it's quality.
I am not knocking any tilers but I quoted for a job a couple of years ago and the customer wanted seperrate quotes for the plumbing and tiling.
I was savagly undercut on the tiling side, also it needed drylining, I worked my nuts off for 3 days getting all my feeds in before the tiler was due to start on the Thursday, I popped round that morning to explain where I wanted the feeds to be through the tile.
He didn't turn up and to cut a long story short he messed the customer and me about and never did turn up, I had to find alternative work to fill in, customer got another tiler who when I arrived to finish off had left my pipes in the wrong positions (difficult to clip to walls as brick was crap) causing me a lot of work, he had also boxed in the whirpool bath and tiled over, no future access to the pump and pipework, the tiling was'nt bad except it was porc and he put them on with bog standard tubbed addy.
From that day I swore to myself I would never work around anybody else, it's just too much hassle, but having said that if a tiler and plumber regulary work together that would probably work but in my case now I do the lot or I walk.
I am not knocking any tilers but I quoted for a job a couple of years ago and the customer wanted seperrate quotes for the plumbing and tiling.
I was savagly undercut on the tiling side, also it needed drylining, I worked my nuts off for 3 days getting all my feeds in before the tiler was due to start on the Thursday, I popped round that morning to explain where I wanted the feeds to be through the tile.
He didn't turn up and to cut a long story short he messed the customer and me about and never did turn up, I had to find alternative work to fill in, customer got another tiler who when I arrived to finish off had left my pipes in the wrong positions (difficult to clip to walls as brick was crap) causing me a lot of work, he had also boxed in the whirpool bath and tiled over, no future access to the pump and pipework, the tiling was'nt bad except it was porc and he put them on with bog standard tubbed addy.
From that day I swore to myself I would never work around anybody else, it's just too much hassle, but having said that if a tiler and plumber regulary work together that would probably work but in my case now I do the lot or I walk.
