Tiling misshaps

[sWe]

So, what misshaps have you other guys n girls had while tiling? Wiver's had a few dirty rotten ones, hehe, but I'm more interested in non-rotten ones at the moment.

I'll begin:

Once, about two years ago, as I was marking up a bathroom, I drew the line on the wrong side of the spirit level on one wall. I was too hung over to notice. In fact, I didn't notice anything until I had tiled everything... Thought it looked a bit weird, and I could'nt, for the love of god, figure out why... :mad2: Go figure, everything on that wall was displaced by exactly the width of my spirit level


Just today, I did a floor, and I had a bucket with water and a sponge in I used to clean away any excess addy in the grout lines with as I went. I ran out of tiles, and stood up to go fetch some more, and I accidentally kicked the waterbucket as I did... SPLOSH! Water everywhere, in every single grout line, and the adhesive hadn't cured yet.......... :mad2: Mad dash to get some towels and TP Turned out okay, I think/hope.........

Next?

 

[Varley]

I had just mixed up some BAL Bond with water to prime kitchen and knocked it off the bench, it went straight through my dust sheets all over the customers brand new kitchen worktops and doors. Took about half hour to clean up and I had to get more dry sheets from home to put back down, was well miffed, not what you need first thing on a job at 8:30am.

 

[GazTech]

In my younger years laying plywood in a stately home, I drove a ring nail through a pipe late on a friday evening. Over the weekend the constant dripping of water on a Steinway piano below was heard by the caretaker / butler !! fortunately for me he had the skill to repair the pipe and had covered this priceless piano with plastic and blankets as soon as he heard the dripping...pheeeeewwwww, that would have been my finest insurance claim.....Gaz

 

[theyomper]

Recently poured Self Levelling over an area of about 25m2. Opened the door just to check it and the customers young Labador pushed past me and ran / skidded through the lot and then proceeded to run back through the kitchen. Took a while to clean the paws prints and dog off.

 

[GazTech]

When my father had his utility room floor tiled in vynil tiles, the tiler layed the contact adhesive and went for his lunch to wait for it to become tacky. My fathers mother -in-law ( well into her eighties ) proceeded to walk across the floor getting herself well stuck. They had to help her out of her stockings to free her....lol :lol:

 

[Fekin]

Only mishaps I've had "so far" has been tiling a full bathroom with a mosaic border, tiling the first full wall and forgetting to put in the mosaic border, and trying to figure out for the life of me why my ceiling cuts were not the size I had planned for :lol: , then once I realised, off with half a wall of tiles and get that border in before the customer came up stairs with my brew

Done this twice :joker:

 

[Perry]

Feks mate the times I have done that over the years what border o that one lol

 

[Fekin]

Yeah, and the moment it dawns on you, you just get that sinking feeling thinking how could I be so stupid :yes:

 

[Perry]

feks i can get away with it i am stupid most of the time every one says o thats just Pete lol

 

[Fekin]

:lol:
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[peter241]

I fixed about 5 m2 of ceramic wall tiles a few weeks ago and couldnt understand why the tiles were not sticking to the addy. after a lot of perserverience i managed to get them all up.

Job done so i thought,

I had a call a few days later and had to go back to replace a tile that had come loose. when i got there i got the bag of addy that i had previously used, opened it up, and realised that it was not addy, it was self leveling compound, Derrrrrrr

The bag of self leveling compound is the same color and style as my floor and wall addy,

I put the job right and the customer was happy. thats the last time i go on an all night bender the night before work.

can u beleive my luck. haha

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

 

[Fekin]

and their still stuck to the wall then

 

[JEC-CTD]

I was doing a job in a police station. We had just self levelled a corridoor when this young WPC puts her head through a door we had forgot to get locked and asks can I walk on this. One of the lads jokingly says "yes love go ahead" and she goes sailing arse over tit down the corridoor. She was mad as hell and us in fits on the floor didn't help either.

 

[DHTiling]

I had just finished tiling and sealing a kitchen slate floor.....in fact it was the final coat of slate seal......all dust sheets down in hall way etc.....i worked my way back out of the kitchen and into the hallway......carefully put the bottle of slate seal down onto a spare tile which was on the dust sheet ( no probs )....
Then stood up to admire the floor.....turned around to walk out side for fresh air as sealer stinks....caught the dust sheet with my foot and the bottle tipped over into the dining room....ffs only carpet with no dust sheet on......slate seal does not come out of wool carpets......

That's where your liability comes in handy.........so always make sure you are up to date......

 

[peter241]

no, i had to replace them all, the leveler came off the tiles easy and i re-fixed them with proper addy