So How Was Your Day?

[widler]

Today I have finish a 130m2 limestone floor , it's been a mare , 200 ish year old cottage , used to be 2 houses and a post office , 7 different rooms plus hallway , no room square to the next and he wanted it flowing through.
All floors out of level , one by around 5" in 4m, very very testing
I drafted in Andystyletiling to grout 60m2 ish this morning, had it done for lunch , so cheers Andy

 

[Simons70]

New job started Monday. Nothing ready,I send the list of all issues found in site Monday and today I receive the ''unfinished list'' with all items notified by me Monday.Seem to be our fault for not do like Harry Potter and fix baths,walls plasterboard,showers pipes,bath panels,frame doors and tiling and grouting in the same time. Around 10 o'clock I receive a text message :''URGENT! WE NEED BAGGAGE HANDLERS TO START TOMORROW AT 6.30 AT HEATHROW AIRPORT(NO EXP. NEEDED) 12 HOUR SHIFT-£230 PER SHIFT.CALL NOW 020xxxxxxxx. How I can continue to be a tiler....

 

[White Room]

New job started Monday. Nothing ready,I send the list of all issues found in site Monday and today I receive the ''unfinished list'' with all items notified by me Monday.Seem to be our fault for not do like Harry Potter and fix baths,walls plasterboard,showers pipes,bath panels,frame doors and tiling and grouting in the same time. View attachment 83250 Around 10 o'clock I receive a text message :''URGENT! WE NEED BAGGAGE HANDLERS TO START TOMORROW AT 6.30 AT HEATHROW AIRPORT(NO EXP. NEEDED) 12 HOUR SHIFT-£230 PER SHIFT.CALL NOW 020xxxxxxxx. How I can continue to be a tiler....

I had one of them through the week, I was tempted though but had a job to sort out.

 

[Simons70]

I had one of them through the week, I was tempted though but had a job to sort out.

Can you image,no tools,no responsibility,no PAT tested,no snagging list,no unhappy clients,no deadlines,no dirty hands,no dust! THIS IS HOLYDAYS!!!

 

[John Benton]

Finished off a kitchen floor this morning, cleaned up en-suite ready for siliconing tomorrow. Glazier went in after me to change dg unit and left, when I went back upstairs again he'd left the old unit and all the packaging, old foam ends off cables (unit has motorised blind in in) strewn all over the floor. Am I just wasting my time I ask myself I've saved all the bits and when he comes next time I'm going to put it all on the drivers seat in his van

 

[Joseph Kover]

Oh & he wanted to go & catch some Pokemon.
Place full of grown adults with faces buried into their phones doing the same.

Zombies. They also play Ragdoll blaster and zombie smash. Look at how many accident, also Vulnerability for attack, rubbery. Idiots

 

[Joseph Kover]

Great day, Finished European heritage tiles, small loft bathroom, now heading to see a wet floor issue after another tiler.

 

[Andy Allen]

I've just had a power nap !!
Thinking of mowing the lawn now

 

[J Sid]

had a nightmare yesterday, b&q tiles customer had delivered.
3 different shades with BCT and made in Italy tiles in the same box
would have walked but was a friend of the wife's so had to sort it out

 

[Joseph Kover]

Every day is a new adventure

 

[Italy]

today, continuous time. 6.30 / 17.30. break 30 minutes.
destroyed and tired

 

[Old Mod]

So the question is can you spot the mistake the electrician made?
As I was about to Lay the last small complete floor the other night I uncovered, from under all the debris, a severed UFH cable.
It had floated to the surface through the latex and was directly beneath where the steel fabricators were installing the balustrade.
So I maticulously uncovered more cable until such time that I had exposed a loop, this way both pieces could be brought together, excess removed as repair made, easy! ...........well, or is it I ask myself this evening.
I even left a small channel in the floor to insert the cable and a flap of anti crack membrane so it could all be put back together as it should be.
Having spoke to the agent today, he assured me everything was tickety boo!
Arrived earlier and after unloading and retrieving other kit from the lock up, I had a wander round to survey the bits and pieces that I needed to do this evening.
Which, incidentally, is supposed to be my last shift!!
Having got to the said floor last I was greeted with this, it's nothing unusual, used to it by now.






Because I had to fit some skirting around that side too, I had to clean up so I could remove the 6mm ply covering the floor, but the penny was about to drop!
As you can quite clearly see, the repair has been made.
And looks like a good job!
Look.......

But can anyone tell me,
Where on gods earth am I going to put the cable?
I have never before seen something so completely stupid!!
He didn't bother removing the excess, he just joined the two pieces together and left it!
And these guys laid it!
So there's no excuse, they know (apparently) how to install UFH!!
So it has to beg the question,
Why should I even bother!!
It took the best part of a week to get the repair kit in the first place!!

Just to add to that, when I uncovered everything to remove the ply, this presented itself.
All that crap was UNDER the Corex!


And the brown residue on the tiles and nosing?
Packing tape! You know the kind they use to pack boxes, that horrible plastic tape.


The tape itself came up clear!
And the adhesive remained in the tiles and nosings.
You can see the clear tape below.



So was it really worth it I ask myself, was it really worth spending so much time and energy to bring together 7 completely different pieces of tile to create this,



When you have completely incompetent electricians and people who instruct labourers how to cover a finished piece of work!
Rant over!

 

[Qwerty]

I feel for you mate I really do!

 

[John Benton]

Nothing surprises me these days Marc, just no consideration or appreciation of other trades

 

[WetSaw]

Never had you down as a whinger....

 

[WetSaw]

So the wife decided I'm going to have a BBQ for my birthday tomorrow and I have to have an Andysday today to go shopping with her, what's that all about.

 

[Old Mod]

I feel for you mate I really do!

Nothing surprises me these days Marc, just no consideration or appreciation of other trades

Cheers guys I'm ok haha I was just lost for words with the complete stupidity of the electrician leaving a 800mm loop in mid air!
I mean ..........Really? Hahaha

 

[Old Mod]

Never had you down as a whinger....

Every day's a school day Paul!

 

[Old Mod]

So the wife decided I'm going to have a BBQ for my birthday tomorrow and I have to have an Andysday today to go shopping with her, what's that all about.

Serves you right!
Karma's a *****!

 

[Old Mod]

Just as an update to my 'feel sorry for myself post'
Last night, the head sparks was on site today and I may have made a comment about the cable.
He came, he saw, he went!
And the electrician who repaired it has had to unrepair it, and will be repairing it properly tomorrow.
Feeling quite smug actually!
Yes yes, nothing new!
I did offer to take the sparky on my next project to give him some on the job training, that might have bordered on a comment too far! Haha

 

[Joseph Kover]

Lovely day today, heading to work, the power generator on the car gone, waiting for AA recovery, go to garage 300 quid short to start the day with. Get to site 2pm, didn't see the job upfront, twice as big as I expected to be, top of this nicely prepared floors and walls. But hey, no moaning, still happy. Time for quick prep only and let it settle . no one here, so I can wipe the bath and shower tray after the other traders left of plaster, woodcuts and whatever you imagine. Image before after meshing. Still better than it was.
Someone can explain what's the point to leave the plasterboard 5cm short and the floor doesn't go under the wall either?

 

[WetSaw]

Think I might have found the water leak....

 

[White Room]

Lovely day today, heading to work, the power generator on the car gone, waiting for AA recovery, go to garage 300 quid short to start the day with. Get to site 2pm, didn't see the job upfront, twice as big as I expected to be, top of this nicely prepared floors and walls. But hey, no moaning, still happy. Time for quick prep only and let it settle . no one here, so I can wipe the bath and shower tray after the other traders left of plaster, woodcuts and whatever you imagine. Image before after meshing. Still better than it was.
Someone can explain what's the point to leave the plasterboard 5cm short and the floor doesn't go under the wall either?

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Always used to leave a 10mm gap under the boards when dry lining, just in case of a small leak so the water wouldn't get sucked up into the board...say in a kitchen bathroom areas.
50mm no idea ??

 

[Joseph Kover]

Always used to leave a 10mm gap under the boards when dry lining, just in case of a small leak so the water wouldn't get sucked up into the board...say in a kitchen bathroom areas.
50mm no idea ??

I Wish you have done here too.. They connected the floor heating too, while the actual wiring Matt is in the box unopened. Never understood this sort of solutions.plywood on the floor not fixed, 2cm gaps between them. Seems very sloppy work, they weren't like this before.

 

[Flintstone]

Typical builders. What you have you put on the walls?

 

[Spud]

Did a small floor today , first job back after being off sick so am happy but knackered

 

[gazmcd72]

So the question is can you spot the mistake the electrician made?
As I was about to Lay the last small complete floor the other night I uncovered, from under all the debris, a severed UFH cable.
It had floated to the surface through the latex and was directly beneath where the steel fabricators were installing the balustrade.
So I maticulously uncovered more cable until such time that I had exposed a loop, this way both pieces could be brought together, excess removed as repair made, easy! ...........well, or is it I ask myself this evening.
I even left a small channel in the floor to insert the cable and a flap of anti crack membrane so it could all be put back together as it should be.
Having spoke to the agent today, he assured me everything was tickety boo!
Arrived earlier and after unloading and retrieving other kit from the lock up, I had a wander round to survey the bits and pieces that I needed to do this evening.
Which, incidentally, is supposed to be my last shift!!
Having got to the said floor last I was greeted with this, it's nothing unusual, used to it by now.
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Because I had to fit some skirting around that side too, I had to clean up so I could remove the 6mm ply covering the floor, but the penny was about to drop!
As you can quite clearly see, the repair has been made.
And looks like a good job!
Look.......
View attachment 83661 View attachment 83662
But can anyone tell me,
Where on gods earth am I going to put the cable?
I have never before seen something so completely stupid!!
He didn't bother removing the excess, he just joined the two pieces together and left it!
And these guys laid it!
So there's no excuse, they know (apparently) how to install UFH!!
So it has to beg the question,
Why should I even bother!!
It took the best part of a week to get the repair kit in the first place!!

Just to add to that, when I uncovered everything to remove the ply, this presented itself.
All that crap was UNDER the Corex!
View attachment 83656

And the brown residue on the tiles and nosing?
Packing tape! You know the kind they use to pack boxes, that horrible plastic tape.
View attachment 83658

The tape itself came up clear!
And the adhesive remained in the tiles and nosings.
You can see the clear tape below.

View attachment 83657

So was it really worth it I ask myself, was it really worth spending so much time and energy to bring together 7 completely different pieces of tile to create this,
View attachment 83659
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When you have completely incompetent electricians and people who instruct labourers how to cover a finished piece of work!
Rant over!

W*****S mate that's all you can say about them and they think their the creame de creame of the building trade

 

[White Room]

Moving from one lock up to another on the same farm, can't believe how many unused tools I have

 

[Old Mod]

I'm not saying my current client is particular but,
I was asked to explain why these two joints were so vastly different in size!!!!
This is a conservatory which is 80% glass and you can imagine just how warm it gets in summer, and cold in winter.
So as the skirtings were not removed I was always going to leave a generous joint at the transition between wall and floor!
But 'vastly different?' Dunno Praps my eyesight is worse than I thought!

 

[Old Mod]

Moving from one lock up to another on the same farm, can't believe how many unused tools I have

Anything up to date enough to sell Mark?