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[Diamond Pool Finishers]

Well mosaic tiling a swimming pool in somerset !, there is a tiler working on his own doing the changing rooms and surround ,he is a cracking tiler his work is spot on ! But he is sleeping in his van and working untill 9pm at night :yikes: he takes ages to do work , he drinks coffee all the time and smokes roll -ups all the time and stops a lot for breaks for the coffee/smokes/talk's to everyone for ages, .
i can't help feeling if he got -on with his work more, he could get home to his bed ,and not have to work such long hours, do any of you guys have this way of working ? :hurray:

 

[gamma38]

My sparky, well ex sparky was exactly the same, nice guy spot on work wise but started around whatever time and finished around whatever time, with roll ups and energy drinks all day inbetween, and he could talk anyone to death. I just couldn't work with him anymore, new spark is spot on, turns up on time, grafts and even cleans up as well

 

[cam_low]

That makes a change for a spark cleaning up !!!!!

 

[John Benton]

Yep go at my own pace 1-2m per day :lol:

I do go at my own pace though. Have a cuppa mid morning and dinner then one in afternoon. Generally have a chat with customer as well to get into their psyche as they will pass your name on for work. Free advertising and you can't beat that.

It depends on what the job is sometimes it can go smoothly and rattle it off, but the bathroom I'm doing now has been a nightmare for prepping, walls down, tiles off, wallpaper off (reinforced lining paper) then paint off walls as well, build new stud walls for shower, overboard, overboard ceiling for plasterer. 4 days work before I even got near a tile.

 

[Spud]

sounds like he needs a holiday Dave ,there are time and motion studies done that once you start doing more than 50 hours a week you start becoming unproductive in the hours you are working as a whole so there is no real benefit doing it long term, short term it does sometimes help but you will need extra rest to make up for it its why the europeans brought in the working time directive

 

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

Yes Gary i generally work 8-5 then Breaks 10am, 1pm then home shower rest , it has worked for about 37 years .
& that guys looks very tired !! he needs a holiday , but then so do i !!!!!!!!! lol

 

[Spud]

Working Long Hours: a Review of the Evidence

 

[Sean SML Tiling]

My sparky, well ex sparky was exactly the same, nice guy spot on work wise but started around whatever time and finished around whatever time, with roll ups and energy drinks all day inbetween, and he could talk anyone to death. I just couldn't work with him anymore, new spark is spot on, turns up on time, grafts and even cleans up as well

You mean there is an electrician out there that actually cleans up?

 

[John Benton]

You mean there is an electrician out there that actually cleans up?

He used to be a tiler so has a conscience :lol:

 

[DHTiling]

I have been called a fish wife before .. :lol: .. i do like to chat..

 

[widler]

I was talking for about 20 mins the other day, outside the factory to some staff.
But erm i did set the fire alarms off while polishing tiles up so emptied the place of over 100 staff

 

[AliGage]

I like to crack on and get a good amount done each day.
Generally work on my own so no one to chat along to. Im a smoker but only stop for one if i need to scratch my head about something. I don't take any brew lit with me so coffee breaks are determined by my customers. If and when they make me one!

 

[White Room]

Working for a guy on day work and so is everyone else on the job, brickies, plasterer etc. Tea break at 8.00am when arriving, 10.00 first food break, 1.00pm dinner break, cup of tea at 3pm and everyone goes at 4....why the cuppa at 4 I don't know.

 

[AliGage]

I find sometimes having a break for lunch means im a bit lafargic in the afternoon so usually eat as i work. More productive.

 

[Time's Ran Out]

When I work away that's what I do - work - so I can get back home sooner! No point finishing at 4 or 5 and sitting in a B&B, work through to 7 or 8 and have a good sleep to get up and back to the job for 8 start.

 

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

well i was tiling the roller-pit today, and i had noticed the tiler had laid a strip of ditra along-side the pool and filled the dimples -in , then the forman came in and started moaning about him as he had not turned-up today ! he said he was a good -tiler but slow and not reliable , Then we left at two o'clock to go to another job lol ,but to be fair we had done a good day's work !, we whent to the other-job and there were three TURKISH guys screeding they had a pump,and two were watching the one guy work ! and all-day he had laid about 25m2 ,God knows how they would make that -pay, and all there kit was top of the range and new .........

 

[Mr T]

dpf its not me on the job mate promise