your not going to believe this one.

[marbleman]

i fully understand how you feel , but really you cant get involved . your involvement is with him not the client

 

[Andy Allen]

trouble is his first words to me after i explain it to him was, how am i going to get out of this one , not what can i do to put the job right.

 

[Stewart]

trouble is his first words to me after i explain it to him was, how am i going to get out of this one , not what can i do to put the job right.

The sign of a quality tradesman......

 

[Andy Allen]

Sounds like a typical know-it-all that's never asked a question in his life......

thats him to a tea stewart.

 

[marbleman]

andy i fully understand and yes you where right in walking away and telling him why , but that should be the end of it , he has to deal with this issue , take your wages and wish him luck

 

[DHTiling]

Gyvlon Down a month..:lol:..

Instant failure.. and quickly as well.. The sulphates will get to the adhesive real quick..

 

[Ajax123]

First thing I would do is verify that it is indeed an anhydrite screed. Bear in mind that there are other pumpable screeds which would have the same blue edging strip. Until it is verified let us hope it is a cement based flowing screed. However if it is anhydrite it will not be anything like dry after just a month. The underfloor heating needed to be commissioned first as well. Could be one that turns ugly on you if you are not careful so lets get it verified first.

 

[Dan]

he only ows me for today, which i'm picking up tomorrow, told him i wouldn't do any more on the job, dont like the fact my sign written vans outside.

Get in!

That's even better mate.

So pleased.

I'd tell the customer why you're not doing the job then. Dog eat dog if you've been paid mate. Get paid. Tell customer why you've left the job (hopefully they're aware you were even on the job). And get the job stopped. Go advise them that what's been done has been wasted. And provide an estimate to re-do what's been done and finish the job fully at a fair rate. I hope you know what the price was put in for originally, that'd benefit you heavily. You want to make sure you get the re-fix mate. I'm pretty sure if the customer is happy in the end, even though it had cost them a lot more (which hopefully they'll get back of the other guy but possibly not) then they WILL tell others about how good you are as they'll not want their friends using the wrong guy, as they did.

I change my opinion fully based on the that fact mate. I thought you'd not get paid if you

 

[Dan]

First thing I would do is verify that it is indeed an anhydrite screed. Bear in mind that there are other pumpable screeds which would have the same blue edging strip. Until it is verified let us hope it is a cement based flowing screed. However if it is anhydrite it will not be anything like dry after just a month. The underfloor heating needed to be commissioned first as well. Could be one that turns ugly on you if you are not careful so lets get it verified first.

Probably best do that before you go with my route above there. lol

You do only want to rat on him if he's actually done something wrong. Though I'm guessing if your gut feeling felt wrong-doing (and the fact he didn't know what the screed was and / or didn't know how to prep it) that you're right.

 

[Andy Allen]

its gyvlon the client told me as i was digging for info, plus i was sweeping the floor in areas that weren't being tile and you could see the latence, comeing off

 

[Ajax123]

Wonderful..........

 

[DHTiling]

its gyvlon the client told me as i was digging for info, plus i was sweeping the floor in areas that weren't being tile and you could see the latence, comeing off

That doesn't sound good either, over wetting of the pour maybe..

 

[spooner68]

Is he a member here? By the sound of it, not.

 

[marbleman]

lets put this another way , how do you know this guy and why did you help him on this contract , is he someone you just know from a tiling shop or a mate of a mate ,
i find most of the time you say something to the client you rarely get the job anyway , he has made a mistake and he has to be given the chance to recitfy work , and hopefully he will do this , as you have informed him it will only last 1 month if he is lucky , give the guy a chance in sorting it out , maybe iam wrong i dont know

 

[Spud]

what a night mare ,when customers purchase a gysum screed you would think that they would get an advice sheet on how they need to be treated from their builder/ architect as there are still lots of tilers/ floor layers that are unfamiliar with them and some folks mistake it for slc when they first come across it