Mucky customers.

[Bolter]

Did a job just before xmas in Surrey on a caravan park. The caravan itself was ok, not the cleanest, but the company who were employed to rip out the bathroom and re-board the walls had left me a key while the owners were on holiday.

I go in, ring the guy to see if he minds if I remove the toilet. He says no, and I get down to take it out and noticed a familiar smell. Toilet was brand new, and fitted the day before, and when I lifted the lid there was a huge turd in it!

I thought to myself, if I leave it, Im getting blamed, so I called the guy, and told him it wasnt mine. He was pretty angry as someone he subbed one of the jobs to had obviously done it, and just left it!

I left the toilet outside all day :incazzato:

Ive had other jobs aswell, one springs to mind where we laid a kitchen floor. The next day, went back to grout it, and must have spent an hour getting long black hairs out of the grout. The woman shed hair worse than my dog!

*shudder*

 

[CJ CERAMICS]

just finished a job (thursday last week) kitchen and bathroom walls and floors.
had to put black bin liners on my legs with tape as i discovered half way thru that the house had fleas (this was discovered while cutting a tile and one jumped onto my hand) informed the customer who said oh!! neighbours must have thought i was mad as at the end of each day i would have to check my clothes by removing and inspecting them, but no way was i taking them home......also tiled a kitchen splash area for a woman who only had one available chair to sit in(surrounded by coke cans and crisps) as all the others were covered with piles of clothes and magazines....there was a line of dust and fluff 6 inches (yes i measured it) in from the skirting boards......and this ladies job......Health inspector for the local council.

 

[Rob Z]

My biggest problem is with customers and their cats peeing all over our drop cloths. I have had so many drops ruined by cat pee that I can't even figure how much it has cost me. It's not possible to tell the customer to keep the cats locked up nor can I tell them they need to reimburse me for the ruined drops. Just a cost of doing business I guess.:incazzato::incazzato:

 

[mikethetile]

My biggest problem is with customers and their cats peeing all over our drop cloths. I have had so many drops ruined by cat pee that I can't even figure how much it has cost me. It's not possible to tell the customer to keep the cats locked up nor can I tell them they need to reimburse me for the ruined drops. Just a cost of doing business I guess.:incazzato::incazzato:

ive had this too, ithink its to do with the smell of unbleached cotton

the smell is something else and my drop sheets end up torn up as smaller sheets or rags

for your us /uk dictionary Rob

drop cloths.......................dust sheets

i still call mine drop sheets as these will hold paint on the surface and are different to dust sheets which allow paint through. people call them all dust sheets now, i lay polythene under mine as its getting hard to find proper drop sheets sold anywhere

 

[Deleted member 9966]

ive had this too, ithink its to do with the smell of unbleached cotton

the smell is something else and my drop sheets end up torn up as smaller sheets or rags

for your us /uk dictionary Rob

drop cloths.......................dust sheets

i still call mine drop sheets as these will hold paint on the surface and are different to dust sheets which allow paint through. people call them all dust sheets now, i lay polythene under mine as its getting hard to find proper drop sheets sold anywhere

OOOoooohhhh you learn something new each day :hurray: thanks Mike

 

[Rob Z]

Mike, I try to make the best of it and use the ones that have cat pee smell when we are doiing big mud jobs or demos. We put them down and they get covered with all the mud and trash, and then we just roll them up and toss them. Nothing else that can be done with them. GRRRRRR!:incazzato:

 

[stevee]

2 jobs come too mond, one bathroom ,i got there and she said just move those shampoo bottles if there in your way........:incazzato:it took all my inner strength not to explode with anger, the lazy cow had laeft em all round the bath:mad2:

another was a regrout in a bathroom, as i was working round the bog i had too take a gulp of air ,go in ,scrape the grout, when i turned blue i pulled away for more air, i was thinkin of tellin him the urine go`s inside the WC ,not down the front

 

[Sean fsy]

think is as to be the worst by a long mile. the house i was going to tile in was terrible. the couple had lived in the bungalow for 40 years and never decorated it once!! to cap it off they smoked about 60 a day in there.

Take a look for yourselves, by the way the drips on the wall is pure nicotene

The bathroom:

The pull cord in bathroom:

when i left:

 

[jamie B]

I remember coming back from tea once at a site in south london, my small rubi was in front of the pan where i left it on the floor with lovely line of pee all over it where some lazy so and so had aimed into the loo from across the room...and the loo weren't even plumbed in...angry wasn't the word for it1:incazzato::incazzato: Funnily enough no-one would own up to it whilst I was marching into plots carrying a big stick!

 

[jamie B]

think is as to be the worst by a long mile. the house i was going to tile in was terrible. the couple had lived in the bungalow for 40 years and never decorated it once!! to cap it off they smoked about 60 a day in there.
Take a look for yourselves, by the way the drips on the wall is pure nicotene

The bathroom:

The pull cord in bathroom:

when i left:

OMG! that is disgusting!!!..you did a great job there tho by the look of it..you shoulda got danger money!

 

[stevee]

sean mate , jesus christ, yuk & double yuk,like your work bud, nice border ,go`s well,steve

 

[DHTiling]

I remember coming back from tea once at a site in south london, my small rubi was in front of the pan where i left it on the floor with lovely line of pee all over it where some lazy so and so had aimed into the loo from across the room...and the loo weren't even plumbed in...angry wasn't the word for it1:incazzato::incazzato: Funnily enough no-one would own up to it whilst I was marching into plots carrying a big stick!

:lol::lol::lol: New name for your cutter instead of Rubi...Rupee...:lol:

 

[jamie B]

:lol::lol::lol: New name for your cutter instead of Rubi...Rupee...:lol:

:lol:
I think it was my 'Pee' S 40 :lol:

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

Where do I start, If I had a pound for every time I have been disgusted. You give a customer 2 weeks notice you will start their kitchen walls on such a date. You turn up to find, Obstacal coarse, sink full of dirty pots, microwave, kettle, iron, spice rack, pasta jars, last nights curry still on hob:mad2:


One of the funniest was we had been instructed to tile all inside window cills in quarries. This was after new upvc windows had been fitted. This was on a very bad council estate. On the first day we knocked on the first door, we were greeted by a woman in the most tatty dressing gown I had ever seen. The stench hit us God it was bad, as we started to get our stuff in, a fat ugly lazy looking slob with a *** in the side of his mouth and a can of Kestrel extra in his dirty hand, said to us "I hope your going to put some Bloody dust sheets down" I looked around the room, It was covered in dog poo, *** ends all over the carpets. I winked at my mate and replied, no Its OK my overalls need washing anyway. The guy looked at me with a blank expression. It went straight over his dum *** head.:ban:

 

[White Room]

Worked in a house for contractor on a refurb of a load of council housing.

The kitchen you could've died in, pots on the cooker with fat and old food running down the side of the cooker, absolute crap everywhere.

Every sort of dish in the sink soaking in a oil slick, she made us a cup of tea, we waited till she'd gone then tip it away.

Even the rats were wearing wellies:yikes: