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[White Room]

Just been asked by a customer to sort out the silicon between the tiles and shower tray. I was originally asked to tile the shower cubicle but apparently she couldn't afford me. What she really meant was she couldn't afford for me not to do it!!!

The gap varied as you can see between £2 and £3.20. (Which is what the should have been paid) The photo of the edge is where all the grout/addy mix combo :mad2:was just left where it met the other tiles on the stud wall. The photo of the ceiling is where the gap is filled with grout/addy, that measured 14mm between top of tile and ceiling. AAArrggghhh
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See what you mean by £3.20....holy moses:yikes:

 

[spooner68]

to paraphrase Harry Redknap "my old lady could do better than that". I've got a re-grout request to do but have told the client they'd be better off re-tiling as its all so poor in the first place and has been so badly over-grouted and grout painted already anything I do will probably look pretty poor no matter what I do. Pause. "My husband did all of that and thought he did a decent job....." oops

 

[Dan]

Haha The gap went from £2 to £3.20. Love it!

We should use that terminology throughout from now on. You can size that up in your head easily.

 

[Mike Mike]

Haha The gap went from £2 to £3.20. Love it!

We should use that terminology throughout from now on. You can size that up in your head easily.

I can't! :incazzato: How high, in mm, is £2 and £3.20???? rrr:

 

[EverDon Tiling]

i'd say £2.00 is about 6mm and £3.20 about 10mm just a guess would measure them but looking out the window my van looks way too far to walk to get my tape.

 

[John Benton]

i'd say £2.00 is about 6mm and £3.20 about 10mm just a guess would measure them but looking out the window my van looks way too far to walk to get my tape.

The coins were in my pocket and the tape was in the van :lol:

 

[Stef]

£2.00 is 6.5mm & £3,20 is 11.2mm EXACTLY. :lol::lol::smilewinkgrin:

 

[EverDon Tiling]

Just started a bathroom refurb and the customer was telling me he had his en suite done less than a year ago he's not happy with it and wants me to do it again at a later date. I thought i would share a few pics with you all, some of the pics are taken from the bathroom I've just started today you can see the backs of the tiles through the wall :mad2: the floor has already failed looks like the "professional" tiler tiled straight onto cheap chipboard.

 

[CJ CERAMICS]

just thought that you would all like to see what a customer payed 7k for last year including tiles and suite(all from b & q) room was a bedroom which was ripped out completely and reboarded.....and to make matters worse when doing the tap test i would say that over 70% of the tiles have been dotted onto new walls.
the photos numbers 6 and 8 actually show where the bath is and the tiler has used grout instead of Silicon......actually no Silicon has been used at at all. and before you ask yes she did pay him as at the end of the job the tiler became very rude and quite aggresive stating that there is nothing wrong with the work and she was just being extremely picky so as to find reasons not to pay.

 

[Qwerty]

Looks fine to me .......... :mad2: :incazzato:

Yet there are so many people out there who will pay for this and throw away our quotes because we are too expensive........ well, it is only tiling after all. Anybody can throw some muck and tiles onto a wall cant they (I have actually been told that line before!!!!)......


MAKES MY BLOOD BOIL rrr:

 

[EverDon Tiling]

Why would you pay for substandard work it baffles me, if I'd finished a job and it looked like any in this thread i wouldn't want paying and i would have a long hard think about how competent i am as a tradesman. I always think if i wouldn't pay for it in my own home why would i expect anybody els to.

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

I wonder where these people come from, why are good tradesmen struggling while these clowns are getting work?

 

[tfs]

It all about the money money....

 

[poynton phil]

I'v been to one this week in a big house that's 4 yrs old. 3 out of 4 bathrooms have cracked floors or walls. hallway and kitchen must be 60msq, starting to crack.

The owner said this is the best house out of the 3 that were built on this plot, could have some good work coming up. It does make you wonder though.

 

[widler]

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just found this on face book,anyone seen it before?