What is the biggest mistake you have made?

[afright]

Worked on a site ,and the carpet fitter's turned up and asked me the name of the owner which was right so they started to lay the carpet got to the last room and they was short of carpet,I then just mentioned have they got the right house as the son has brought the house next door,oh dear :yikes:

 

[afright]

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

Yep I've done that, but lucky bluffed the customer,convinced him thats how he told me to do it that way.

 

[cone]

Tiled a full bathroom then realised I forgot to put border in! Felt like a right **** when customer pointed it out. Another one, had a bathroom to rip out, all tiles to come off walls and was flat out busy and pulled 2 chavs in I know to pull bathroom out/tiles etc.. Dropped one off outside the house while he waited for his mate to call, his mate arrived half hour later with tools, these 2 headers walked into the next house, upstairs and started ripping tiles out of the bathroom while the owners daughter sat downstairs thinking they were in to do a job for their parents lol. Now this is the funny part if it, once the owners found out, the husband went crazy but after some calming down by his wife, I ended up with getting paid for tiling the new bathroom because his wife was wanting a change. The 2 chavs however didn't get paid for their work. Could have ended up alot worse but its been a good aul laugh in the pub when I see that cple lol

 

[cone]

Worked on a site ,and the carpet fitter's turned up and asked me the name of the owner which was right so they started to lay the carpet got to the last room and they was short of carpet,I then just mentioned have they got the right house as the son has brought the house next door,oh dear :yikes:

Lol, just after seeing this after my post. **** happens is all I can say as ya can see from my post above

 

[cone]

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

What you mean landscape?

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Tiled a full bathroom then realised I forgot to put border in! Felt like a right **** when customer pointed it out. Another one, had a bathroom to rip out, all tiles to come off walls and was flat out busy and pulled 2 chavs in I know to pull bathroom out/tiles etc.. Dropped one off outside the house while he waited for his mate to call, his mate arrived half hour later with tools, these 2 headers walked into the next house, upstairs and started ripping tiles out of the bathroom while the owners daughter sat downstairs thinking they were in to do a job for their parents lol. Now this is the funny part if it, once the owners found out, the husband went crazy but after some calming down by his wife, I ended up with getting paid for tiling the new bathroom because his wife was wanting a change. The 2 chavs however didn't get paid for their work. Could have ended up alot worse but its been a good aul laugh in the pub when I see that cple lol

If you got paid why would you not pay the labourers!

 

[mma]

Same as cone, tiled a wall and forgot about the border. Also removing old tiles from a bathroom wall but keeping the old bath. The first tile I removed, I dropped and it scratched the bath quite badly. Thankfully the couple were ok about it and I didn't have to pay for a new bath! It was only the grout keeping the tiles up. No adhesive on the back of the tiles??

 

[Spud]

Last year before Xmas , I thought it would be a good idea to do some house bashing , ended up mixing up to similar tiles and tiling the kitchen floor patchwork style didn't see it until i grouted as they were so close I took out the Wrong ones and cleaned them up and didn't even invoice for the bathrooms I had tiled as I felt such a plonker

 

[Stef]

In doing a full bathroom supply & fit years ago, took on the full job.
The only thing that wasn't getting changed were the door facings. Don't know why when I look back on it.
They looked terrible so ripped them out & replaced them, sticking in the last nail or 2 & swung my estwing down & took a chunk out the side of the bath, the lip.
Quick call to the plastic surgeon got me out of buying a new bath.

 

[Andy Allen]

ou mean landscape?

200x300 tile.......lanscape .....tiles fitted horizontal on the wall . Picture frame tiles fitted vertical on the wall. ..

 

[steve-tiler]

I dropped a tile in a 1400mm walk in shower tray. Was doing top cuts and it fell out my hand and when through the cardboard and dust sheets and took a big chip out it. Had to be a matki tray didn't it.

I was employee of the month!

 

[kevsalt]

left out the mosaic border...got two walls up before i realised,,,,doh ..what a numb nut

 

[andyb1]

Put some feature tiles up, forgot the metal trims they wanted In between :lol:

 

[Rich Midge]

Turned the water on under the kitchen sink in a show house when I was an apprentice. Filled 10 or more buckets to clean them before I noticed the water coming through the light fittings from upstairs. Turns out the plumber hadn't capped any pipes. The whole of the upstairs was under about 3 inch of water. Mains pressure straight out the cold tails.
A fella tipped me £20 (half my weekly wage as a 17 year old) after I'd finished grouting his kitchen floor. Picked up a bag of adhesive and walked right through his house and down his newly tarmaced drive to the van before I found out the bag was split. Gave him his cash back and spent about 2 hours cleaning.

 

[Ian]

I was doing two ensuites a in the same house, got the floor tiles mixed up, fortunately the adhesive was still soft(ish) when the homeowner spotted it. I may have mentioned before that I nearly burnt a house down when a spark from my grinder lit a dust sheet I'd used to cover a motorcycle in the garage!