Remove plinths for tiling a floor?

[mma]

IMO it's all well and good taking toilets out, but if it was a bodged installation in the first place, you can literally end up in the poo! Any problems further down the line, then the customer will be straight on the blower, "my toilets leaking, my toilets leaking". Rather not get involved, same with rads.

 

[prceramics]

i would not feel comfortable leaving a customers house with there toilet door still off

 

[Ian]

but you can all cut down ply to fit a floor right????? :mad2::mad2::mad2: Or I suppose you all pay you chippys to come in and do it for you?

Thats a bit different, ply doesn't have to be cut perfectly as it'll never be seen, if I were to make a dogs dinner of someone's plinths or door, it's there on show.

 

[Andy Allen]

but you can all cut down ply to fit a floor right????? :mad2::mad2::mad2: Or I suppose you all pay you chippys to come in and do it for you?

I don't pay chippy's to do it the customer dose..

 

[mma]

Sorry Bri!!

 

[Ian]

Sorry Bri!!

No worries.

 

[mz30]

remove plinths....100%... its a bodge and cowboyish to see a groutjoint next to plinths... apply yourself, its not hard..think of the recommends not the immediate money, we offer a service.. the tiler who doesn't take out an existing w.c and basin to tile underneath, replumb and re install, isn't offering the full service, however you wanna look at it.... that's why recessions are good, they sort out the tradesmnen from the cowboy chancers... this job isn't textbook, I do this, and not that.. its I can sort this out as I want to, for their sake and mine longterm, think about it.... the longterm survivors and people not short of work ever, think like this.. if not carry on.. keep seeking new business.. make it harder longterm for yourself.. its a plinth.. its a door.. think of the bigger picture !

So after 25 years am doin it wrong? no I have learnt from past mistakes,i price for tiling end of,am a tiler not a cowboy I do tiling not plumbing not joinery etc . Its a plinth Its a door? its not tiling I don't see the point.

 

[Brian the Tile]

ohhhh come on!!!!! cutting down some kickerboards is hardly being a handyman or odd jobber. It's something you should be able to do in the course of your daily work.


Can you imagine a plumber coming along and going "sorry madam I can't lift your floorboards to run your new pipework, you'll have to get a chippy in to do that"

i was trained as a wall and floor tiler ,been doing the job now for 43years,it says tiler on the tin and that is what i do ,not saying i cant do it,i choose not to do it and explain why,i can be making money fixing tiles which is where i make my money in my eyes a plumber should be a plumber ,not a scaffolder,and as i said in the long run the customer ends up paying more in the long run

 

[mma]

If you have to cut a door down, make sure you cut the bottom and not the top! Heard of a few carpet fitters that have done that. Also heard of customers saying that the door has been damaged, when the damage was already there!!

 

[mz30]

but you can all cut down ply to fit a floor right????? :mad2::mad2::mad2: Or I suppose you all pay you chippys to come in and do it for you?

I don't get involved in that side of it ,I tell the client what needs to be done and they sort it,am not a joiner at the end of the day.