Some times you have to laugh

[Gazzer]

A builder asked me to patch up a wall recently. He said it was ready to tile.
It turned out to be an end wall in a bathroom with a towel rad on. The wall was made of chipboard and where they had taken the bottom row of tiles off to get the new bath in they plastered up flush to the old tiles with bonding plaster !
That was the first problem I saw , then they expected me to tile around the rad brackets ! Then i saw the leak on one of the microbore pipes !
I removed the rad and looked at the wall, 2 tiles looked as if they were about to pop off. I gave them a pull and half the wall came away. It was only the rad brackets and grout holding it on.
Someone had actually papered the wood and then at a later date had tiled over it !!! Oh well at least the wood was clean for me to board over with backerboard and then retile.

 

[Ian]

So many bodgers about! I can't stand shoddy workmanship.

 

[Bubblecraft]

That's nuts mate. Hope you told your builder what you needed to do to prep it correctly & the extra charge for this.

 

[Gazzer]

Yeah he was ok about it. Nice bloke actually, he knows if I say its gotta be done this way then thats what happens.

 

[Dougs Third Go]

nice when they're prepared to listen to you

 

[charlie1]

Things need to be done right, simple as! A customer recently asked me to tile her bathroom 600 x 300 s and finish off round the door with trim, the facings where very thin. As you can imagine, it would look hideous, id recon a good 3-4mm gap would have required filling. I insisted that the facings be removed at no extra cost and a wooden packer be inserted to frame allowing the facings to be as they should. Customers can either take your advice or they can bodge it themselves