PITA job

[macten]

4 days in and I don't feel I've made much of a dent in the huge piles of tiles I've got!!
Spent a day sorting out the concrete to get it level - had to hit it quite a bit with SLC (this was suppose to be all sorted!)
All the furniture still in the lounge, set of stairs that I had to take down with joiner (they had to go in lounge), fridge freezer, 2 dogs, kitchen units etc.. all piled in the lounge. Wanted to get all the ditra down on first day but fat chance.
No outside tap so I put one in last night to make my life easier.
Managed to finish hallway off today and get stairs back in - so managed to get more matting down so I can make a start in the lounge tomorrow.

 

[Time's Ran Out]

See you haven't had that finger fixed yet!

 

[macten]

Ha - my fingers have bled everyday so far!
First cut of the ditra and I managed to go into my thumb
Today was taking the bathroom door off and it has one of those tensioned chains (can't remember what they're called)
but it was fitted at the top of the door so max tension - that bit me bad, as I was wiping all the blood off the ditra one of
the labradoodle puppies rocked up and emptied its bladder all over my fein :rant:

 

[andyb1]

What did you do after dinner! :sofahide:

 

[macten]

Hurrah - I'm in the lounge!

That Ditra doesn't half eat up adhesive - good job I added the word 'estimate' when it came to the materials bill!

 

[Andy Allen]

Looking really good. ..

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Ok - what does PITA stand for?

 

[macten]

pain in the ***

Though in all honesty my *** is the only thing that's not hurting :sick:

 

[Time's Ran Out]

As an Acronym I thought it was 'perfectly installed tiled application'!

 

[Andy Allen]

I thought it was bread....

 

[TJ Smiler]

That looks lovely mate, are they Porcel thin tiles?

 

[macten]

No TJ - regular big heavy thick porcs!

Really nice tile though - I've only spotted one repeat in the glaze pattern so far and I'm working out of 10 open packs at a time.

 

[macten]

End of week 2 and lounge and utilities corridor finished

Kitchen/diner to do next week which I'm a bit worried about as there's a built in media unit and island to go around - concerned that the levels may
be out when the tiles meet back up.
Also got a curved wall window feature thing that's going to be hard to cut round (worried I'll have to split a tile or two to get it in place.

 

[macten]

Monday had to work around kitchen fitter so only managed to get the last of the Ditra laid

 

[macten]

Tuesday dry laid some tiles to make sure grout lines meet up around media unit and island

Then got some full tiles down

 

[macten]

Took me pretty much the whole of today to just get all the cuts in!

 

[Colour Republic]

That looks like a complete nightmare. Nobody is managing the clients expectations.

TV, books, CDs all stacked up in recesses before the decoration is done or the skirts fitted. Kitchen completely filled before that's even finished. Sofa and furniture on the tiles before it's grouted. I'm all up for accommodating the client when they are trying to live in the property whilst the works are going on but that's taking it too far.

If I had quoted for that job and that is what I was faced with I would have had a word with them by now.

Sorry sir/madam I know you want everybody out of the house so you can get back on with your life but the fact is you're only extending it but slowing us down.

 

[macten]

It's been a mare!
Got an entire bathroom suite piled in the hallway now. Massive fridge freezer that is apparently going on ebay (put it on ebay then and get rid ffs)
Kitchen fitter's held up 'cos he spends 1/2 his time emptying cupboards, fridges etc... only to have to put it all back later. Though it's me suffering the most - God knows how I'm going to grout it all in one day. :mad2:

 

[Russell brown]

Looks good, it'll be worth it in the end.

 

[macten]

All done bar the grouting!

On the downside this is what I'm up against come grouting on Monday:

I've had a word but we'll see :mad2:

 

[Stef]

Amazing work there.
Rather you than me to try & grout that though. Torture.. [emoji35]

 

[Stocks Tiles]

Make sure you don't get the sofa dirty :sofahide:

Looks fantastic, now that does sound like a gay word when I read it back but amazing has already been used :lol: