What is the biggest mistake you have made?

[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!