What is the biggest mistake you have made?

[Knifey_Spoony]

No matter how good you are at whatever job you do,sometimes you will make mistakes.Just wondering what big mistakes you lot have all made?

When i was an apprentice i was left to grout a big porcelain or stone floor.Can't remember as it was a long time ago.I grouted about 30m2 then went to wash it off and the grout was rock hard.The house had underfloor heating so it made it go off really quickly but i had still grouted way too much anyway.I just couldn't get it off at all.I called my boss to come who went mental at me when he couldn't get it off either.He tried all kinds of acids and stuff on it but it never completely came off.We had been on the job for 4 days and he never got paid because of it.

One other time i layed a 50m floor out wrong.It was a entrance to an apartment block which had a foyer that led to a stairwell like a U shape.I was just using a tape to measure everything up then tiled the entrance way which was about 35m.When i got into the room with the stairwell there was a 1cm cut running the whole way along the skirting down one of the walls with 600x600 tiles.Had to have the whole wall plaster boarded again to cover it.Was on a building site so i felt like a right **** having everyone know.I have always doubled checked my laying out by manually checking with a tile rather than solely using a tape ever since.

So what mistakes have you guys made?

 

[Russell brown]

Once had a labourer drill all the kitchen door handles wrong and couldn't get handles to match the holes. I've made a few but nothing that sticks out.

 

[Dougs Third Go]

once left out thermostat on underfloor heating also tiled 2 bathrooms with the wrong tiles, (labourer was supposed to carry tiles up to bathrooms and stack them outside each bathroom, he stacked the wrong ones)

 

[lizzardtong]

I did cut the cable on underfloor heating. And did plumb thermostatic shower the other way - twice.

 

[gamma38]

When i was younger i tiled a floating floor as a weekend cash job, needless to say i got a call to say it had failed. I went round to look and it wasn't the end of the world to be fair. I managed to rectify two rows of cracked tiles and never heard back again. It cost me and it was a lesson learned. Apart from that i don't make mistakes..... I'm perfect.......:yikes:

Just ask my missus.. :sofahide:

 

[Sean SML Tiling]

I've also made a few mistakes on setting out but now everything is double checked. Also tiled onto paint when I first started. Guess what the tiles nearly fell off the wall. Was lucky enough rectify it in time.

 

[Fliselege]

Is this just about tiling or is it time for story of the bird I pulled that had an Adams apple and took a pee standing up? I've damaged a heated floor cable twice, done a rip out without being told the floor is staying, and used the wrong tiles twice, one I spotted was a delivery mistake and fixed it there and then, and the other one I got away with as the customer preferred the contrast of different tiles, lucky for me, but still felt a plonker for not spotting it

 

[tubs]

Buying RUBI Cutters !

 

[Rookery]

Did a big floor once through several rooms and when I was putting the last couple of rows in by the back door I realised that the composite door wouldn't have opened. Fortunately my joiner pal was able to take a few mil off the bottom for me without it affecting the threshold.

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Fully tiled a bathroom and seperate Wc. Only to realise wc was only meant to be half height!

 

[nybor62]

when i was house bashing for persimmon , i tiled a kitchen floor , only to find out after i'd done i was in the wrong plot .

 

[Dash J]

Tiled a floor and forgot to put probe in for ufh

tiled round a kitchen island and went off square,had to get a tile laser cut to fit

the list goes on lol

i will stop now before I make a complete Hugh hunt of myself

that was a long time ago btw I'm not bad now

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

My biggest mistake involved one of a pair of very expensive vases placed on shelves high above either side of double doors, me trying to carry to many plastic trims through the doors.

I will leave the rest to your imagination.

 

[Andy Allen]

Tiled a bathroom up to boarder height picture frame only to discover the boarders were landscape. .....and so should the field tiles have been..

 

[area tiling]

Tiled a wall once halfway up in stack pattern , and grouted out ! The next day customer came back from hols and said it should have been laid in a brick bond pattern , also dropped a tile onto a shower tray once which had to be completely ripped out ! Well all make them !!!