The Worst Tiling Job You've Done

[Concept PHT]

Job Done!! lol

 

[bluewaters tiling]

The worst job i have ever done is to tile a sluice room (Mentley disabled washroom). Walkt into this one blind! bumpy white tiles (b&q) 4x4 25 mtrs wall tiling.
Had to cut round everything sinks taps shelfing etc. very dirty job.Staff coming in & out to wash the dirty pans! Then waited 3 months to get paid as it was a charity.
That was rockbottom for me! Live & learn though.

 

[GazTech]

YAK. I worked 4 a kitchen firm as a teenager,tosser plumber forgot to connect waste under the floor in this bungalow.Bloody sink had a waste disposer in it ,in the height of summer they called us coz of the smell .Guess who had to don a dry suit get under floor ( bout 24 inches high) clean it all up and disinfect,lowest in the pecking order me.Got the MD back though stuffed some big spuds up the exhaust of his prize Mazda ,just after I jacked. I know I'm bad

 

[Fekin]

Mine has to be a shop re-fit I did a few weeks back.

Disabled toilet, so it was quite big for a bog, just grouted up a full wall and a joiner started to hammer and chisel out a door lock in the frame work, only flimsy stud walls, shattering my nice clean grout lines :angry_smile:

 

[Greedo]

Done a kitchen splash back for a couple in their 60's last week. Turned up to do the job and there were holes all over the place where the kitchen fitters had chased the sockets into the walls. Told the guy he'd need to sort it as the tiles were only small 4 x 4's. He disapeared to get some bonding and came back 5 mins later with a neighbour who was pissed and had no top on. It was freezing outside as well. Guy turned out to be a half decent plasterer but was one annoying b*stard. He left and the old guy sat at the kitchen table the whole time I was there just watching me and talking ****e. He wasn't watching me as such, just wanting to chat but by god he was a pain in the arse. It was a Sat as well and never got finished till 6.45. Got home and got grief from the Mrs as we were meant to be going out. Wished I'd never taken the job in the first place :icon8:

 

[penno]

Worst job was last month, did a kitchen floor to ceiling in the cheapest tiles in the world. Every single tile through the wet cutter cause the pressure of the manual shattered the tiles into a hundred bits they were that fragile. Never again.

 

[postie]

I guess it's the job i am on at the moment for a property developer almost every tiles is warped and ther are 2 mm differences on some tiles got 3 bathrooms to do with these i must be mad but can't turn it down as it could lead to more work.

 

[LEWIS]

Worst job - doing it now, main contractor has left the tiling until the last possible second and now wants 10 wet rooms doing by Friday. Does any one no where i can get a gun?

 

[CLAYS TILES]

i must be lucky, the only crap job i've had is the one that got away!!!:icon9:

 

[sc24]

as an apprentice raking out and epoxy grouting to pub urinals, imagine years and years of p##s leaking out as you raked out the old grout

 

[CLAYS TILES]

yuk! i once read a quote on here............. DON'T TOUCH PUBLIC TOILETS! guess thats why!!!!!!!!:icon13:

 

[CJ]

Not really my fault........but

Was doing a kitchen floor for this "flash love herself" kind of woman.........and was grouting in the dreaded Black grout. Told her to stay out as this stuff stains everything, and she had beige carpets.

Kids came in from school in mid grout, dog (Forgot to mention they had a dog) was going mental in excitment. Well then the kitchen door shot open and the kids tried to come in for some snacks......I had to stop them........but the dog shot past them and me.........slide over in the black grout, jumped up and bolted out......up the hall and beige carpet. Black pawprints all the way to the front door, and a dog covered in black grout

Women went mental..........at the kids and then I heard the dog yelp.

Nothing I could do...........except snigger under my breath.........and carry on grouting.

I did hear she changed the carpet the week after

 

[GazTech]

brilliant....proper funny...how the hell did you keep your face straight cj ?

 

[Home Tiler]

first job i did was for a friend ...he said practice on my bathroom...so i checked it out ...walls were all over the place...and he didn't want to spend money putting the walls right,,, so of i started ....you can imagine the trouble i spent trying to get all the walls level with my addy..back butttering and putting addy on the wall...(i was doing it after work ...and was really really knackard)....seeing it was my first job i decided to get some epoxy grout after i spent christ knows how many hours tiling after work..(thought it was a good idea) ....opened the tub smelt like pisss started mixing it ...my arms felt like jelly...then a started putting it on the walls,,, honest i think i nearly started crying ..it was like fighting mike tyson ...god was i knackard ....but i held back the tears and got on with it!!!

but when i finnished i realised i wasn't gettting paid

thats when i broke down crying

to say i was fooked would be an under statement..

i don't care if i don't have any friends now to be honest

steve

 

[CJ]

Gazza, I could'nt really..............

She paid me as well