Need to rant!!

[John Benton]

If it was floor tiles at £10 a box i could almost forgive it. But £75.00 a metre quartz? It's nuts. In fact it's a real insult. Happy to spend that on the tiles but wants to pay less than minimum wage to have it fitted.

A mate of mine, his boss wanted me to fit £100 a metre porcelain tiles on a floating floor with wired UFH. Told him I would only do it if he ripped up floating floor and either he could prepare floor or I would with a suitable substrate to tile to. He wouldn't budge as the builder had fitted the floor and said it was ok. He got in 3 guys to tile 30m and it took them 5 days. Everything on that job was ticking the boxes for failure. My mate told me they had to buy 6 extra bags of addy to make it level!!!

Why spend that much on tiles and scrimp on prep and fitting, it's beyond me.

 

[AliGage]

Exactly JB

 

[Dan]

Just another one that'll have corners cut and fail sooner rather than later. It'll come back around soon enough don't worry about it too much.

It's a shame they waste so many tilers time through quoting it though.

 

[AliGage]

Bumped into this lady in my local topps a few days ago. She clearly recognised me but didn't say anything. Topps had just sold her £476's worth of tiles and adhesive.

 

[Time's Ran Out]

you will always get loonies phoning you up expecting you to work for nothing or give them materiels for free I try and ask a few details before giving up the time and diesel money going round to quote them,first thing I ask is how did you get my number ,if its a recommendation then its a good sign that they have spoken to someone you have already worked for and they will have some idea of what the work will cost,secondly i ask have you had any other quotes ,sensible people get 3 qoutes and choose the person they had the best feeling from,if the customer replies 5 or 6 they are looking for the cheapest price only,where did you buy your tiles,internet buyers tend to be the most price sensitive and spend hours looking for the cheapest stuff they can find and pick price over quality everytime and often dont even get samples before spending their money so i also tend to avoid these types aswell lastly I always ask when would you like it done if its too short notice I dont really have the time to fit them in so i dont waste their time or more importantly my own pricing up work I know I will never get ,Dont let it get you down there will always be customers who havent got any idea about what the real costs of tiling work will be

Best post I've read for a long while! Should be in it's own 'bible' section.