let down... misprepresented.. out of their leauge !

[Mr Tiler]

Read my signature that put's it in a nutshell...:smilewinkgrin:

you think i haven't already Mark or Marc? im sure its Marc but cant get my head around it ha! anyway yes i have read your quote and many alike! at the end of the day we are all human and dont deserve to inherit a bad name as long as we strive to create a good working business! something to think about folks... im pretty sure this chap who is a regular didnt want his name banished or in anyway treated with less respect! its clear that if he was and prob is a reg chap than he is trying to do a decent job at tiling!!!!!!!!! and that is the main thing! dont judge him he made a mistake now move on and let him speak his version!

 

[Mr Tiler]

wow what a rant lol

 

[Rossymcg]

Mr Tea bag, I get what you're saying but that's from your point of view not being a contractor,
put the shoe on the other foot and you're now a contractor who's built up a good relationship withvarious clients, someone comes along telling you they can do this that and the other agree to do it, then let you down, its happened to me loads of times and it's cost me money, time and contracts,
tiling isn't my main source of income I'm a joinery contractor in the Nottingham area and I've worked for every national house builder, operating with in excess of 50 joiners pre recession, If some could give me the heads up regarding a joiner I was just about to take on telling me what they're really like and not what they perceive themselves to be, it would be much appreciated.

 

[Rossymcg]

why? what do you plan to do with his information?

Id use that information and think twice before employing someone who'd let someone down,

 

[m3fitter]

Trust me. . Out of spite. I'd like to name and shame.. out of humanity I won't. . The same guy won't be in a hurry to put himself forward again for proper tiling work.. I don't think there is an excuse. .. especially I can't earn money at this job... tbh that was an insult. . I'd preferred it, if he'd said ' I'm not confident, sorry ' ...

 

[charlie1]

You need to be humble enough to learn in this trade, a good opportunity for the guy to earn some money and learn which is worth so much more. I'd be reluctant to pass on a 3 m2 kitchen splash to someone who I'd never seen there work. M3fitter, if find it totally unbelievable that you passed on this amount of work to a guy from here based on there posts I guess... Really why man? You also sound like you get your fair share of high end work so would have been a great contact for the tiler who wants to develop. I was in a very similar situation about 6 months in to my career and I can tell you, he will be feeling absolutely gutted. Failure is never an option in this game.

 

[Time's Ran Out]

The type of work that was on offer was not for someone who wants to develop a career, it was for those who can do it and do it to a high specification .

 

[charlie1]

I hear what you are saying TJ, me personally, I'm developing my career with every job I do. Never stop learning

 

[Tony73]

I hear what you are saying TJ, me personally, I'm developing my career with every job I do. Never stop learning

same here... learning every day :hurray:

 

[Time's Ran Out]

I know Charlie we all are, I've just done 60 sq mts of 120x120 cm tiles and it's backbreaking stuff, but we should all understand our limitations and morally it's wrong to accept a contract for which we have limited experience and yet commit others to expenditure, loss of earnings, and ultimately loss of future work.
There are too many chancers in our trade who believe they can fudge their way through work which should take years to fully understand.

 

[Dougs Third Go]

I know Charlie we all are, I've just done 60 sq mts of 120x120 cm tiles and it's backbreaking stuff, but we should all understand our limitations and morally it's wrong to accept a contract for which we have limited experience and yet commit others to expenditure, loss of earnings, and ultimately loss of future work.
There are too many chancers in our trade who believe they can fudge their way through work which should take years to fully understand.

but how do we then push ourselves to the next level John? sometimes you have to gain confidence to take that next step,,,obviously backfired in this case, but if we all stood still and stuck to our comfort zone then surely we'd never progress our skills?

 

[Tony73]

but how do we then push ourselves to the next level John? sometimes you have to gain confidence to take that next step,,,obviously backfired in this case, but if we all stood still and stuck to our comfort zone then surely we'd never progress our skills?

at "bloody" HOME

 

[Rossymcg]

but how do we then push ourselves to the next level John? sometimes you have to gain confidence to take that next step,,,obviously backfired in this case, but if we all stood still and stuck to our comfort zone then surely we'd never progress our skills?

On your own job so you don't give someone else a bad name and leave them the mess to sort out behind you

 

[Brian the Tile]

If the person couldnt do the job he should have said so at the outset that he wasnt confident enough, there is too many people out there that think tiling is easy and anyone can do it , well this judt goes to prove otherwise, this trade ode of ours is not just about square rooms with no setting out and no cutting and the sooner people realise that the better, and I'll not even go down that route of courses and multi traders:sofahide:

 

[RITE TOUCH]

i would like to add to this thread that i am true tiler for this developer and needed a hand with finishing this job hence why i advertised on the forum and timeless john replied about the post, ascot tiling got somebody in who after the first hour i knew that he didn't have a clue, he wasn't going to earn money the way he was tiling and the wall that he did i had to strip off and do again, the job isn't 9 million it is only a 2 million build to the developer and st gorges hill was never an option as i have 4 tilers booked in for 10 weeks in july!! that is a 9 million job... sorry guys but you do take a chance when you hire a handyman which is what was written on his van, jack of all trades and master off none springs to mind