never had this happen before..

[Andy Allen]

tiled a kitchen walls today, customer came in just as I was finishing, said I hate it...:yikes: not the tiling, but the tiles she bought, she paid me for the job, then by the time I had got home she rang to book me in to retile it, her husbands going to take them all off again...:lol:...really do wonder about some folks..lol

 

[John Benton]

Bonus time Andy

 

[Ian]

Had exactly the same thing recently Andy, did a slate floor and the customer says its too dark. Apparently they have got an artist coming in to paint the tiles to lighten them! I hope I get to see the result for some pics!

 

[peteablard]

That happened to me a couple of months ago! I do a lot of work for a local builder but this was in his house. Had about 10m2 down on the floor then stopped for lunch, he sat there looking at it then said I don't like it, take them up!! Got paid twice so didn't mind too much!! At least he changed his mind then and not after the full 40m2 was down!

 

[Rookery]

I dont remember that ever happening to me but many a time I've thought to myself,
'do they really want me to fix these awful tiles, have they got no taste?'

 

[peteablard]

When I first saw the thread title I thought it was going to be about problems you'd had in the bedroom Andy:lol:

 

[DHTiling]

I did a kitchen wall job a lot of yrs ago , wifey chose tiles whilst hubby was working away .

I was just washing off when hubs came home , after a few mins he came into the kitch to see how things were going , took one look at tiles and then went back to his wife and all hell broke loose :lol:

He then came back , said take them off , I will pay you twice , j was gutted having to rip them back off.

 

[andy8758]

I love customers too. Never been asked to remove tiles, but I was refurbing a bathroom - lower half tiled with brickbond white, upper half painted with Farrow and Ball's finest. The "wife" returned home and looked in after I had finished the painting and told me the paint was the wrong colour. Turns out her husband had mixed up her instructions - woodwork colour became wall colour and vice versa. At £56 a litre that's an expensive mistake - I repainted it too .... at extra cost of course :8:

 

[jonnyc]

i did a job on moors somewhere outside sheffield many years ago.
wife went on holiday and husband decided to rip kitchen and floor out and redo before she came back as surprise.
i laid a genuine reclaimed jerusalem floor which at that time was about £ 400.00 per square mt plus my exorbitant fixing costs plus new smallbone kitchen.
she came back slightly earlyas we were applying last seal and flipped her lid.
we ran out the house and left the husband to his fate.
it was pretty scary

 

[Gazzer]

i did a job on moors somewhere outside sheffield many years ago.
wife went on holiday and husband decided to rip kitchen and floor out and redo before she came back as surprise.
i laid a genuine reclaimed jerusalem floor which at that time was about £ 400.00 per square mt plus my exorbitant fixing costs plus new smallbone kitchen.
she came back slightly earlyas we were applying last seal and flipped her lid.
we ran out the house and left the husband to his fate.
it was pretty scary

Obviously not a good holiday then ?

 

[On one]

Yep, had it happen to many years ago. The architect had chosen the kitchen splashback tiles when the lady customer was unable to pick them because of illness. Let my self in,started tiling away,mid morning she comes down,didn't like them........off they came!

 

[stone tiler]

Had a client do the same before xmas. 100mts in a large kitchen/conservatory. 600x400 classic trav filled and honed laid b/b. Laid 60mts and all was fine, lady kept looking in and loving it over 4 days. Got a crying phone call 4th night. She hates it and cant live with it (even tho her sister has the same and shes copying as she likes it so much!)
Take it up and change it to a random brick bond. Same tile, same setting out point. Obviously couldn't save the tiles and had to latex the entire area to get a new level playing field. Luckily her husband was away on a business/golf trip with the Glazers!
Extra £4k and a promise to not to tell him. Thanks very much

 

[Jeff the tiler]

Sent my wife away while I tiled the Kitchen Dining room and hall. 60 x 60 porcelain nice tile 38 metres. Wife came home and could not believe they were matt and not polished:mad2::mad2: ...Anyway 18 months later they are still down and i think finally she is starting to like them. Though probably wrong!

 

[Andy Allen]

seems some folk have money to burn....lol

 

[STEVO]

Think of it this way Andy, it could just be an excuse to get you back in the house!!!

 

[Pebbs]

Yes Andy I have had a situation like this...except it was my own bathroom!!! I had it mosaiced, got to the end, walked in once it was grouted up and said OMG I hate it! I thought it would grow on me...no amount of new towels and bathmats can persuade me differently...the bloody mosaic has to be ripped out! It may be a woman thing, or just the fact that im fickle!

Lynn

 

[Time's Ran Out]

We did a black marble floor in Durham over electric Ufh cable. Husband stood and watched for an hour. Got back the next day and was told they should have been white!! Apparently he thought his wife had changed her mind. We were just fitting so had no previous involvement in design.

 

[On one]

Yep, had it happen to many years ago. The architect had chosen the kitchen splashback tiles when the lady customer was unable to pick them because of illness. Let my self in,started tiling away,mid morning she comes down,didn't like them........off they came!

ME AND MY BIG GOB....that's twice now....a customer from last thursday has just rang up and said can I take her 100mm x 50mm travertine kitchen splashback off.......''it doesn't go with her granite worktop''!!!!!!...oh deary me!
Hey ho...more work for me.

 

[Lee@emctiles]

tiled a kitchen walls today, customer came in just as I was finishing, said I hate it...:yikes: not the tiling, but the tiles she bought, she paid me for the job, then by the time I had got home she rang to book me in to retile it, her husbands going to take them all off again...:lol:...really do wonder about some folks..lol

From a retailers point of view......i think this happens a hell of a lot!