Tilers decision - easy and fast or difficult and slow?

[Flintstone]

I do like to use the brain and do the more complicated jobs and jobs where the finished item is more important than just the cost.

 

[Spud]

I get bored doing anything too long, did a kitchen splash back in metros today and loved it , nice easy work local to home and finished early , I Wish more days were like that

 

[WetSaw]

"He was difficult and slow" a fitting epitaph for me....

 

[One Day]

High quality / fast / cheap.
Pick two.

 

[Fraser Tiling]

Vast floors on price is the earner, bathrooms with large tiles, decors, windows, boxing and ***** levels is the day rate challenge to make the silk purse.
Commercial BCT 25X40 walls with 5mm joint 30x30 floors is the brain killer, and mosaics to egg shaped rooms are the ones you wished you never started.
Think you need a bit of each to realise how much you still hate going to work and question why you didn't start running a brothel instead.

 

[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.