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[montster]

Lesson learned on this one, value all your comments.
Cheers.

 

[Fekin]

I always take a 30% deposit on any work over £500. Remember many people are in a bad way with their finances. A couple of customers have tried it on over the last six months, the usual excuses, cant find the cheque book, can I pay you next month, there was £30,000 in that account I cant understand why the cheque has bounced? People can be solvent one week and heading for bankruptcy the next week. I would recommend taking a deposit as this covers you for your materials and weeds out any dreamers!

Cover yourselves, you dont want a couple of bad debts to ruin your business. Your in business to make money, not to offer customers a credit facility while they take their time to pay. You have to pay for most other goods and services upfront why not tradespeople? They dont let you take your supermarket shopping home and pay for it when you've eaten it all and decided it tasted OK!!

I totally agree.

Not everyone who works for themselves can afford to layout hundreds on materials if it's a big domestic job and wait for payment until the end of the job.
If I do a large job then I will ask for some form of payment to cover some of the materials upfront as I have bills to pay just like the customers do, but for smaller jobs like kitchen floors or a bathroom then I don't bother if it's straight forward.
But if your doing 30 sqm of hardi backer boarding out, 12 bags of adhesive plus bottles of admix along with bottles of sealer and so on then you can be talking quite a lot of money, so then I will say from the start I need the customer to either buy xyz in or pay me for it and I pick it all up before starting.

ohh, and that's some terrible tiling too

 

[MICK the Tiler]

SORRY!! But that tiling, you had done is CRAP!! Full stop. I'd be ashamed if I put my name to such a mess.

 

[montster]

this guy aint no tiler hes a chancer and why should he have the chance to put it right send him packing its guys like him that make it hard for the rest of us. lets face it anyone that can hold a trowel thinks they can fix tiles....:furious3:

I agree, got a bloke in now doing the bathroom, doing a quality job then he`s sorting the other stuff out.

 

[LM Ceramics]

wow thats shocking tiling montster do you have the name of the of this tiler and his number i would love to ring him up and give him some abuse.

how long did it take him i bet he finished at 10 to 10 cowboy time :joker:

 

[montster]

"cowboy" Pete :mad2:------at "Cosi Home Services" 01246 810282
07843 934395
photo`s are there -- what can`t speak can`t lie!!!

 

[LM Ceramics]

ah home services a handyman i presume not a pro tiler always use a specialist tiler (ie not hanydman or plumber)

 

[LM Ceramics]

thanks for the number montster im gunna have a laugh with this guy

 

[montster]

I take your point, but I have seen some good examples of builder`s tiling.
So that is really no excuse for the poor job he did.
He was recommended to me, (had words with that person).
There was a fair bit of other work to do as well, and only a fairly small area of tiling.
I`ve done one bathroom myself, covered the basics, centred the tiles for an even cut either end, framed the window opening, trimmed edges, sockets fitted in cut-outs etc..... Took me yonks, but made a reasonable job of it, but......
I fully appreciate that tiling is a skilled trade and that`s why I didn`t do it myself this time, but when you employ someone to do a job you expect better than a poor DIY attempt.
Have a chat with him and see what utter bo***cks he tells you.
Got a Professional Tiler on the job now.