Dodgiest place you've worked?

[Mad Hatter]

I started a job today refurbing Social Housing and I have been shipped out to Moss Side, Manchester. Despite my doubts on the way driving to the job I have been made welcome and had a good laugh all day long and it has turned out a lot better than I thought it would. Too many people get tarred with the same brush is what I've learned today from what I saw in the people I met. It's Goat Curry for dinner tomorrow from the local Carribean Cafe that has been recommended to me.

So where's the place you lot have felt most at unease whilst your van was parked up on the front?

[CJ]

Edinburgh

[faithhealer]

Council house, 10.00 at night fixing a leak which had fused all the lights so, thankfully, couldn't see what was making the smell!! all the doors were hanging off the hinges. So Glad I had my (big) dog in the car!

[pjtiler]

HMP strangeways the week before the riots
talk about a powder kegg

[Mad Hatter]

I bet that was interseting. Was it really a sh't hole inside? Wasn't that the reason for rioting, that and overcrowding?

Are you glad the job didn't get dragged out for an extra week? There was plenty of work for the local roofers after that anyway.

[pjtiler]

I bet that was interseting. Was it really a sh't hole inside? Wasn't that the reason for rioting, that and overcrowding?

Are you glad the job didn't get dragged out for an extra week? There was plenty of work for the local roofers after that anyway.

we were doing the new showers in a wing needless to say we didnt finish the job
over all it wasnt that bad as far as prisons go

[enduro]

Mental health hospital, tiling a shower i had to be escorted in with my tools to the room and locked in, and if i need to go to the van they had to come and let me out, and i had to remove anything that a patient could harm themselves on....So that was nearly all my tools..BLOODY NIGHTMARE.
At least i know what it will be like when when i go mad .

[CJ]

HMP strangeways the week before the riots
talk about a powder kegg

Maybe That was the reason they went on a riot?............they didn't like your tiling

[sWe]

Some guy's cabin, which he was converting to a year round dwelling. Everything was rotten, and I made the misstake of needing to go number two there once. I simply couldn't use his WC, it was that putrid.

Doesn't compare to what a fellow tiler told me about two occasions when he layed some floors in a mental institution though. Some lunatic snuck up on him while he was drilling in concrete with a hammer drill, and chewed off the power cord... And some little old lady walked by him as he worked, ****ing as she went... Etc etc...

[grumpygrouter]

HMP strangeways the week before the riots
talk about a powder kegg

You were in there tiling weren't you????

[wayne]

nigeria... bit of an eye opener that one.

[pjtiler]

nigeria... bit of an eye opener that one.

did you have to pay for your armed gards or was that in with the contract

[Fekin]

Dodgiest place I've ever tiled....... my mums

[wayne]

armed guards on the gates to the compound we were in but that was it. ventured out a couple of times but it was rather unnerving sitting around houses made of pallets while drinking with our nigerian labourers.

[garythetiler]

johannesburg 1991

[andy-p]

did a bit of repair work in a " ahem " massage parlour, dodgy in a very nice way tho!! this place was paradise, it had snooker tables, a bar, smallpool , jacuzzi ,steam room and wall to wall quality babes no growlers let me tell you i hung (pardon the pun) that job out !!

[LM Ceramics]

council houses salford,and norris green liverpool

[Holohana]

Terminal 5!

[whitebeam]

A house in hackney london, 8 in the morning the tenants were offering me tenants super

[IvegotsTILE]

glasgow.Asked for directions to Celtic ground and didn't realise Ibrox was round the corner,they chased after me but my van was quicker than them ha.