To potential customers looking for a tiler.

[DHTiling]

Why oh why do you ring the day before you need your tiling done and expect the tiler to say , ye! no probs i can start tomorrow..

you know weeks in advance you are having your bathroom/kitchen etc fitted.. so RING a tiler and arrange that as well...:mad2:


Yet another NO!!!! i cannot start tomorrow or the day after... The clue is Plan ahead and then you will not be let down or end up with odd job bob doing your tiling and then naff it up and you will be very upset..:lol:



Rant! over..:smilewinkgrin:

 

[Stewart]

You've had the same day as me....

 

[Tony73]

)) have hapent to me few times, but i think not well organised client would be bad client. so don't worry . some people think, you sit at home and wait for they call

 

[hillhead]

It's as bad when a comp rings and say's Joe we have a marble bathroom all set to go for you on friday !! no chance.

 

[DHTiling]

I had one last night as well... some comp from darn sarf.... wanted a shop floor in Darlington tiling next week... :lol: oh how i laffed before he hung up...


Plan ahead , it's easy you know..

 

[Perry]

What i used to get Dave is we have a house ready in two weeks 2 months later on a Friday night hi Pete its all ready for you Monday :mad2:

 

[DHTiling]

Mad innit.

 

[Stewart]

I gave 4 jobs away today because they haven't planned them properly and have unrealistic schedules. There was a time when I would have made it work and slotted them in, but I'm married with 2 kids, 1 dog, love my time off and life's too short. Quite happy to let someone else stress about it.


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[Stef]

If a customer does manage to get a tiler in the next day then you can almost guarantee a penny to a pound that it aint going to be done right.

On the very rare occasion you will manage to catch a good pro tiler between jobs but 9 times out of ten the customers going to end up with a builder who thinks they can tile.

Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

 

[radim]

I gave 4 jobs away today because they haven't planned them properly and have unrealistic schedules. There was a time when I would have made it work and slotted them in, but I'm married with 2 kids, 1 dog, love my time off and life's too short. Quite happy to let someone else stress about it.


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this is deffo one of top ten quotes on this forum:hurray:

 

[tommyzooom]

The first question I ask is "when are you looking to have the work done?
You get the odd person who says they won't be ready for a month, a lot say " can it be finished for the weekend?":mad2:

 

[Rizzle from the Portizzle]

love the ones. ring up you priced my job 6mouths ago can you start tomorrow. say course i can ive been waiting for you to call. long silence. realy but iam going on holiday tomorrow good luck:8:

 

[ms.tiles]

i had a custommer call me, "need my bathroom floor tiled"!!
asked when he needed it doing he said tomorrow, just laughed and said minimum of 6 weeks,he said he'd ask his new tenants (moving in in 3 days) if they could wait and he'll call me back.

Never did call me back surprisingly.

 

[MTiler]

I get it quite often. I want to ask why on earth have you left it to the last minute but hold my tongue. Bless 'em. And usually they dont like it and seem surprised you cant do it.
Although I dont get it when Im quiet lol:mad2:

 

[Perry]

had one today rang this afternoon disabled wc finished by monday 600 x 100 have the materials :yikes: in the middle of Picadilly

 

[swanman]

The phone never rings with urgent jobs when you are quite

 

[merit]

then you get the ones. its already to go ,every things fitted,then tell em you dont tile round toilets and basins, get your plumber back

 

[widler]

and then the ones who say 'right it be ready 2 weeks thursday,so book me in'
so you get jobs finished,then phone call day before 'im a bit behind,come next thursday instead'
erm,yeah,ok then,your the boss,i be there on the dot ,not

 

[Bubblecraft]

I get this a lot. Last year I had a couple who wanted a 4m slash back done. Came out & quoted & they were happy with the price. They said "that's great. You can start tomorrow?" Told them I've nothing free at all for a month so they called out a "Joe Bloggs" to tile tile it next day.

They told me later that he started at 9am & didn't leave until 9.30pm that night!!! This is the job he done -

They then called me & booked me to re do it all a month later. They hated it so much that they changed the tile. I started at 8am & was finished just after lunch & that's removing his tiles & fixing the dodgy patch up he did of the walls. Here was the outcome -

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