Tilers scrupples(again)

[On one]

A problem you have all probably come across, when your doing you thing on one part of a contract and another firm/tiler is working on another part. Well it happened this week on a big country house I was working on for a firm of plumbers and in another part of the house was another tiler/handyman! working on a separate contract.
When he finished for the day I had a sneaky look upstairs(sad I know)........a pathetic attempt at wrapping 600x400 porcelain tiles around 3 walls of the shower......he is starting to put 6mm ply down on squeaky floorboards prior to fitting electric UFH matting and tiling with large format tiles. The floor has such a hump in it that he hasn't got a hope in hell of using SLC, the SLC would all end up in the shower tray,so he must be intending trowelling over the cables,well dot and dabbing because that is the only way he will be able to complete the floor.
So what do you do? ......try and educate the so called tiler/handyman,have a word with the customer(£200 p/h solicitor) or wait for the cacky stuff to hit the fan?

Damned if you do and damned if you don't!

 

[Ian]

Stay out of it mate, you'll be the one who looks like a **** stirrer. Hopefully someone will spot the difference between your work and his and ask a few questions.

 

[On one]

I know what you mean Bri but just leaves a bad taste in the mouth!

 

[Mr Tiler]

Leave him to it mate then the handy.ancan pay you to re-do it later on

 

[White Room]

I'd keep out of it as well to be honest, that can cause so much animosity.

 

[mma]

What T Bag said!!!

 

[John Benton]

Yep stay out of it Wrighty, sometimes when you stir the **** you end up having to taste the spoon, and that ain't nice !!!

 

[Time's Ran Out]

I couldn't give a hoot - I'd tell him if he couldn't do the job correctly he should find another job.
It's allowing these idiots to demean our trade that keeps us in the DIY bracket.
Too many people stand back in life and don't want to get involved.
That's my take on it anyway!

 

[Stef]

I'm with TJ on this, I would have to say something, I couldn't stand back & watch someone being ripped off like this.

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Just to expand - having employed tilers - it's possibly the reason I wouldn't let them get away with it.

 

[Mr Tiler]

no matter how he goes about it he will receive greif, greif which he doesn't need as it wasn't him who recommended/ called in the so called tiler. that's just my opinion anyway... or finnish up your job and simply tell the customer as you walk out the door to give you a call when the other project turns sour and to have the other guy pay for it

 

[Andy Allen]

If he's on £200 p/h he can aford to have it done again.
Leave him a card on the way out...lol

 

[Mr Tiler]

When i was doing the showroom bay before there was a chap in there fitted bathrroms and done the tiling too. I was grouting up and was a bit slow then and he showed me how it was supposed to be done, it was not the way to do it lol cheers