Tilers decision - easy and fast or difficult and slow?

[Stef]

I like a challenge & a bit of head scratching so I would opt for the more difficult jobs if I had the choice.
On the flip side it's the satisfaction from the customers face whether it's a simple run of the mill job or something a bit more technical that keeps me tiling & trying to strive for perfection on my jobs..

 

[One Day]

Yes Stef, i really wonder sometimes how and why tilers keep putting up with the ridiculous expectations of customers and the appaling conditions we often get.
I've come to the conclusion that many of us are just pathological people-pleasers with slight masochistic tendencies!

 

[MTiler]

I love complex mosaic work where I could just fix a metre in a day, such as ice fountains. Of all the steam rooms Ive done no two are the same, its varied work in its self. It keeps the little grey cells active. I get bored very easily.
But doing the odd metro splashback inbetween the mosaic work makes a change, for 5 minutes lol.

 

[Spare Tool]

I love it when sometimes the smallest of easy jobs often leads into something a lot bigger and amazes me how some would turn this sort of work down as its beneath them... A few weeks ago did half a day finishing off another tilers work that had gone AWOL, just grouting and siliconing, I'm just packing my van when a guy off same street stops me..."can you tile my kitchen walls please"...surprise brickbond metros!! Ive been there this week, on Wednesday the customers son walks in.."I'm opening a new restaurant and going to need toilets and floors tiling, if you can give me a quote" can never tell what can come of one crappy little job!

 

[Time's Ran Out]

I don't agree that a tiler would turn work away because 'it's beneath them'.
It's all about choices and what your workload is at the time of the offer. If the price is right every job is worth doing and if you've put your business in the position of doing top quality work on a regular ongoing basis then you've earned the right to choose. We've been fortunate to have a variety of tiling projects, not all profitable but all enjoyable from Geometrics, stone, mosaics through to a combination of materials in and out of swimming pools.

 

[One Day]

I don't agree that a tiler would turn work away because 'it's beneath them'.

I think that was aimed at me

 

[Time's Ran Out]

I think that was aimed at me

I'am not aiming at anyone, just quoting from a previous post to elaborate my opinion, which is what a forum and discussions are meant to initiate.

 

[Spare Tool]

Go on then imp...tell me honestly, would you rather finish some one else's tiling or have a day off?

 

[One Day]

I'am not aiming at anyone, just quoting from a previous post to elaborate my opinion, which is what a forum and discussions are meant to initiate.

Andy's comment - not yours!

 

[One Day]

Go on then imp...tell me honestly, would you rather finish some one else's tiling or have a day off?

Day off. It's beneath me. It would be like asking Michaelangelo to paint your garden shed!

 

[Flintstone]

I wouldn't finish some ones work off

 

[One Day]

I wouldn't finish some ones work off

good man!

 

[Spare Tool]

Day off. It's beneath me. It would be like asking Michaelangelo to paint your garden shed!

Knew you wouldn't sink so low

 

[WetSaw]

If it was worse than I can do I'd finish the job off so that my work looks better

 

[andy8758]

Finishing off other tilers work - not something I generally agree to do, but in photo below, the walls had been tiled by a "professional tiler" except - no tiles around the circular window ("cant do circular cuts like that missus"); no tiles around the fan ("tiler kept having cigarette breaks and didn't finish the job"); and no tiles on bottom row and on boxed in sections ("tiler said the builder would sort that out"). So I agreed to sort that out after finishing the kitchen floor ("cant do cuts around that type of manhole luv" - second photo).

Clearly too many tilers who cannot be bothered with anything remotely challenging (sorry Andy Allen - this job was in your neck of the woods - Stroud. I should have sent them to you really).