Mucky customers.

[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:

 

[hillhead]

second day on a bathroom once,i went upstairs with my cutter:yikes:
a pair of sexy undies sitting exactly where my cutter sat the day before !
i kicked them out of the way,the customer landed back in a while,came up and said "oops,sorry" lol.

 

[DHTiling]

I was working in a house tiling the kitchen walls and floor and my bruv was upstairs with his work mate fitting out the bathroom..

Anyway the lady of the house said to me that she had just had a new fire place installed and it had tiled side panels...do you want a look at them they are nice she said...ok.. why not..

So i followed her through into the living room, knelt down in front of the new fire place to get a good look at these tiles,,, nice design i said and stood back up... as i did i felt something drop off my knee...mmmm i thought as i went back into the kitchen.. i looked down and saw a damp patch.. rubbed my knee and sniffed my fingers...AHH!!!! Cat poo...:incazzato:..

So i grabbed the dish cloth and rubbed my trousers clean and then threw the cloth in the sink... stuff you i thought... shortly after that the woman came in the kitchen and proceded to rinse out the cups with the dish cloth whilst asking who wanted a cuppa...:yikes:... err NO thank you i said..lol lol.. and then she shouts upstairs to my bruv and his mate , who said yes...:lol:... I tried so so hard not to laff as she took the cuppa's upstairs...:lol::lol::lol::lol:

 

[Colour Republic]

Classic

 

[jamie B]

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:

had similar before, working a weekend to do a conservatory, turned up at 8am..geezer answered the door in his pants!:yikes:stinking like a brewery..the let us in and went back to the settee IN the conservatory to carry on kipping..we set out around it then woke him at 10 to move the settee..and he got up..let us lift it then laid back down on it!!!
by the time we were grouting he had come to a bit..made us a cuppa and weighed us out in cash!..turns out he was in the doghouse..did enjoy turning the grinder/radio on tho!:lol:

 

[Dan]

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:

If this is still a problem then try squeezing oranges over them from time to time, apparently cats hate the smell and don't go near it. Found this out when cats kept coming in the garden once and the dog kept going mental. I stuck half of oranges here and there and squeezed them around the perimiter. Worked a treat.

 

[DHTiling]

If this is still a problem then try squeezing oranges over them from time to time, apparently cats hate the smell and don't go near it. Found this out when cats kept coming in the garden once and the dog kept going mental. I stuck half of oranges here and there and squeezed them around the perimiter. Worked a treat.

So does shooting them with an airgun..:lol:

 

[murf]

A few years back I was tiling a downstairs W.C. floor with the bowl in place, as it was cemented in. The man of the house was a chronic alchoholic and never went outside. When I had finished tiling I told him not to walk on the floor as it was not yet grouted. When I went back to grout the floor it was drenched in urine. Apparentely he had been peeing from the doorway to the bowl for the entire weekend.

 

[brian c]

A few years back I was tiling a downstairs W.C. floor with the bowl in place, as it was cemented in. The man of the house was a chronic alchoholic and never went outside. When I had finished tiling I told him not to walk on the floor as it was not yet grouted. When I went back to grout the floor it was drenched in urine. Apparentely he had been peeing from the doorway to the bowl for the entire weekend.

give me my money and here is a bag of grout m8 get on with it....wouldnt be me grouting that!

 

[murf]

give me my money and here is a bag of grout m8 get on with it....wouldnt be me grouting that!

Thats what apprentices are for Brian:lol::lol::lol:

 

[LM Ceramics]

having worked on council refurbishments ive seen everything there is to see it also caused me to pack in my job with the tiling firm at the time some of the houses stunk, dirty clothes all over jam and butter covered on the work top, dogs sleeping on the kitchen worktops,horrible hairs in the bathrooms stains on the tolilet seats, crack head council tennants (i mean literally)

i went into one property in the bathroom the bath was filled with bongs and no word of a lie the young lad left his bag of weed on the window cill

 

[mikethetile]

having worked on council refurbishments ive seen everything there is to see it also caused me to pack in my job with the tiling firm at the time some of the houses stunk, dirty clothes all over jam and butter covered on the work top, dogs sleeping on the kitchen worktops,horrible hairs in the bathrooms stains on the tolilet seats, crack head council tennants (i mean literally)

i went into one property in the bathroom the bath was filled with bongs and no word of a lie the young lad left his bag of weed on the window cill

been there, tower hamlets council, people think your exagerating
im not, i could tell you one story after another
i was forever being asked for a date or worse forget the date we will just get down to it, talk your way out of that and avoid an unhappy tennant complaining about everything, it wasnt only females that asked:yikes:

1 guy wanted me to shave him while he lay naked in the bath, i was out of there double quick and refused to go back

 

[LM Ceramics]

been there, tower hamlets council, people think your exagerating
im not, i could tell you one story after another
i was forever being asked for a date or worse forget the date we will just get down to it, talk your way out of that and avoid an unhappy tennant complaining about everything, it wasnt only females that asked:yikes:

1 guy wanted me to shave him while he lay naked in the bath, i was out of there double quick and refused to go back

:yikes::yikes::yikes::yikes:

 

[diamondtiling]

Are you sure it wasn't Wivers house you were working in? :lol:

 

[DHTiling]

Lads...Loving the stories but please watch the language...

 

[Peter]

Seem to get a run of dirty stinking house every few months.

Done a kitchen just before Christmas, the sort of place that stinks of dog. Worktops needed clearing of last night's chippy, dirty plates in the sink, half drank beer tins etc. Then went to use the toilet and there were dirty clothes everywhere and skidmarks on the seat. Needless to say, didn't take a cup of coffee off her.

Was doing a harth about a week before that, just getting started and had to ask the lady to remove what the cat had shat right beside the fireplace. The smell still lingered there - every time she left the room, I emptied about half a tin of her air freshener into the area.

Round about the same time, I had a bathroom to do. Dirty smelly foul house with dirty clothes and dishes lying everywhere. The tiles were stored in the child's room, which involved wading through skidmarked underwear and the smell of pish.

Haven't had an overly pongy one since thankfully. Those jobs were in North, West and East Belfast respectively, so all the bigotry about the 'other side' being dirty and unwashed has been disproved. They're both as uncouth as each other. :lol:

 

[White Room]

I new a fireman who told me they had a call out to a flat and could'nt understand why there was newspapers all over the floor and a bad smell.

The person in the flat had a load of cats and as they crapped where ever on the floor the person would lay papers over and over on there droppings.

A health risk for sure.