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My girl friends mother asked me if I can recommend a painter to repaint her hall was as the wall paper was peeling off the wall, I had a look at the wall and realised that the shower was on the other side of the wall. I looked closely and shock horror!!!! No silicone in the internal joints and the grout has cracked all the way down the walls letting water behind the tiles and ruining the stud wall. She asked me for a quote to sort it (she wouldnt let me do it for a favour because "thats what she pays insurance for"), she gave the quote to the insurance company who obviously said that "they have their own experts to do the work". So I stood well back but just said to her to make sure that the "tiler" uses silicone in the internal joints not grout.
They turn up and rip the tiles off, of course the plasterboard is ruined but he tells her that its ok because he is going to PVA it before the tiler tiles it. I go round that evening and tell her what I think. Next day he has taken the old board off and replaced with standard plasterboard (of course no tanking here), I tell her what I think but try to stay out of it. This is where they realise that they cant get the same tiles :mad2:. She picks some new 1s. The tiler comes in and tiles the shower area and grouts the internal joints like a brain damaged chimp so i cut the grout out and siliconed. Neadless to say the work was terrible!
After this she decides that she isnt happy as there is a bow in the tiles so they come back and take 1 of the walls down and replace the plasterboard with MDF. I almost wet myself laughing! She phones them back and tells them that its not good enough. The next day the builder is not a happy bunny as he has to change the board (again). He then tells her that I dont know what Im talking about because Im only a tiler and he is a builder so he has to know loads more :lol:
I have missed out a hell of a lot of this story to keep it short
yikes. He also asked for a bacon butty every morning, turned upo at 7.30am on a sat without telling them and left before 9am, charged her an extra £600 to do a few odd jobs, these took him less than an hour.
But the most stupid thing out of the lot? She has asked him to fit a new kitchen for her... I dont get it.
P.S Sorry for the essay, needed to vent!
They turn up and rip the tiles off, of course the plasterboard is ruined but he tells her that its ok because he is going to PVA it before the tiler tiles it. I go round that evening and tell her what I think. Next day he has taken the old board off and replaced with standard plasterboard (of course no tanking here), I tell her what I think but try to stay out of it. This is where they realise that they cant get the same tiles :mad2:. She picks some new 1s. The tiler comes in and tiles the shower area and grouts the internal joints like a brain damaged chimp so i cut the grout out and siliconed. Neadless to say the work was terrible!
After this she decides that she isnt happy as there is a bow in the tiles so they come back and take 1 of the walls down and replace the plasterboard with MDF. I almost wet myself laughing! She phones them back and tells them that its not good enough. The next day the builder is not a happy bunny as he has to change the board (again). He then tells her that I dont know what Im talking about because Im only a tiler and he is a builder so he has to know loads more :lol:
I have missed out a hell of a lot of this story to keep it short
yikes. He also asked for a bacon butty every morning, turned upo at 7.30am on a sat without telling them and left before 9am, charged her an extra £600 to do a few odd jobs, these took him less than an hour.But the most stupid thing out of the lot? She has asked him to fit a new kitchen for her... I dont get it.
P.S Sorry for the essay, needed to vent!
