The Worst Tiling Job You've Done Page: 2

[enduro]

Did a job today for a builder i do alot of work for, hallway floor got there at 7am, set out floor, did all my cuts, loads of them around doors, electric box etc, just about to start laying at 10, women arrived home and said it was ment to be on the diamond pattern....********. builder forgot to tell me....

 

[IvegotsTILE]

I take it the builders gonna pay for your wasted time and tiles?

 

[GazTech]

I went to a job 8 yrs ago it was 10 x 10 kitchen walls 6 different colours.When I arrived the customers dressed in full papar csi suits had just finished laying out the tiles on the dining room floor as per the walls, every colour in every place,including little paper cardboard cutouts of the socket positions,they'd been up all night and promptly,went to bed asking me not to switch on my sacred digital radio and leave all the electric cutting until they got up.BIZZARE OR WHAT?l

 

[Concept PHT]

Weird.....

 

[GazTech]

Very nice people as it turned out,got lots of good work through them.I listened to my walkman ,marked all my wet cuts and took them home to cut at dinnertime.It later occured to me that if I'd known ,I could have dropped adhesive with them the night before,and they could have stuck them on the walls where they wanted them for me.I'd have had my cuts on in rapid by elevenses,grouted up weighed in and been in the snooker hall for afternoon tea!

 

[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: