Mucky customers.

[DHTiling]

Customers....How many of you have turned up to tile a bathroom or kitchen and it is still full of gear or absolutely filthy...

Things like dirty dishes in the sink or on benches or smelly dirty clothing on bathroom floors etc.

Tell us your worst tales of what you ave come across in your duties as a tile fixer.

 

[simhopper]

Worked in a run down B&B that was being used to house the homeless and DSS

At the strip out we started by removing the shower cubicles and in the aluminium profiles laid dozens of used condoms

Picked up the tools and walked as this looked to be the tip of the iceberg

 

[Gazzer]

I went to a private house once and i was to tile the kitchen floor. As i walked through the dining area it was disgusting with hardly a gap in the carpet that wasnt covered with newspapers, magazines or clothes. The kitchen work surfaces were totally full of stuff, dirty plates , cups and car parts. The sink was full of dirty dishes.
About 11am the teenage lad wanders in and looks for a bowl for his cornflakes, there wasnt one clean so he ate them dry out of the box while watching tv. :mad2::mad2:

 

[mikethetile]

we had to rip out and refit kitchens for tower hamlets

a lot of kitchens were infested with c ockroaches:yikes:
we had to spray all over everynight and spray our kit before loading the van
we didnt want to take any home

on some jobs you had to lift the washing up bowl full of dirty , greasy water and dishes out of the sink before ripping out.

empty w/machines of rank dirty washing so we could lift them, move piles of dirty washing of the kitchen floor

empty the cupbards of their gear so we could demolish them

it all went out the front door and laid in the garden

as you can imagine in the east end a lot of it got nicked

 

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

one place I went in to work , and yes cat/ dog **** on the floor I took one look, and said bye bye:yikes::yikes::yikes: i hate peasants :lol::lol::lol:

 

[brian c]

I was fitting a bathroom floor for a customer once and took out the whb and wc which was enclosed in a unit.bEHIND THE KICKBOARD I FOUND USED WOMENS UNDERWEAR AND **** mags.......i knew the bloke must have been up to something because the house was only 15 years old and he had lived in it since new and he and his wife are divorced.The worst thing about it is i know his family :yikes:

 

[jamie B]

just last week 20m2 in bathroom..couldn't even figure why the fella was paying a builder to do the work when the rest of the house was a proper kazie(is that the spelling!?!?) just grim..and very depressing.

 

[CJ]

Seen plenty "Floaters" in customers lavvys.

Move white goods and find all sorts of things........some still growing :yikes:

 

[kilty55]

I was fitting a bathroom floor for a customer once and took out the whb and wc which was enclosed in a unit.bEHIND THE KICKBOARD I FOUND USED WOMENS UNDERWEAR AND **** mags.......i knew the bloke must have been up to something because the house was only 15 years old and he had lived in it since new and he and his wife are divorced.The worst thing about it is i know his family :yikes:

haha thats a cracker bri:lol:

 

[brian c]

I was tiling an area of a bungalow that this customer kept her 5 golden retrievers in and i started tiling and at 11am she started boiling TRIPE:yikes:that mixed with the smell of dog was absolutely vile,i actually had to send home my helper that day and i asked her not to cook while we were there as the smell was so bad.Incidently this room was through the wall from the kitchen with no door and only a gate seperating the rooms...absolutely stinking.

 

[kilty55]

we were to tile a bathroom in fife,customer left everything in the room so we had to emty it before startingrrr: lifting the medicine cabinet off the wall and out falls rampant rabbit:lol:


tiled a few houses where the kitchens were absolutely filthy,,sink in one had cat and dog food lyin in sink then human food,,then pots n pans this was the only sink we had for water also and the customer was sat readin a magazine ,some people eh

 

[kilty55]

in fact my job tomorow is filthy

 

[jamie B]

Seen plenty "Floaters" in customers lavvys.

Move white goods and find all sorts of things........some still growing :yikes:

bog full of nasties on job I mentioned above..then fella even had the front to show me the bathroom whilst the floor was full of dirty laundry (which I had to move!) and didn't bat an eyelid over the full pan!...some people are weird!!:yikes:

 

[mikethetile]

overflowing cat litter trays, especially in the summer:yikes:

 

[brian c]

some people dont have any self respect!

I also had a bit of a smelly job last week where yet again i was tiling a kitchen and dogs were kept there,absolutely stinking and grease all over cupboards from cooking just really dirty in General.He wondered why we wouldnt take a cup of tea from him:yikes: