Cowboy Builders

[theyomper]

Who's watched this tonight?
Notice the tiler doing the bathroom?
Large format tiles.......Dot and Dabbed..............Tubbed Addy....
Sums the program up.........a builder always complaining.........a presenter always pleading poverty...........and local firms taking a hit in the pocket.......that's entertainment.........I think not

[whitebeam]

Missed it, bugger

[Leatherface]

Yea saw it. Melinda Messenger was the best bit, still looking fine !!

[john32145]

exactly how could you say no to her lol

[lawrenso]

Who's watched this tonight?
Notice the tiler doing the bathroom?
Large format tiles.......Dot and Dabbed..............Tubbed Addy....
Sums the program up.........a builder always complaining.........a presenter always pleading poverty...........and local firms taking a hit in the pocket.......that's entertainment.........I think not

What channel and what time?? I will catch up and show it to the guy that bodged my bathroom


Cheers

Steve

[Alan.P]

What channel and what time?? I will catch up and show it to the guy that bodged my bathroom


Cheers

Steve

Another thread about it here, started at the same time There is a link to the show, needs registration to watch but only takes a minute, I posted a couple of pictures in the thread, the tiling part ( brief ) is shown on the clock counter on the bottom of the picture.

[keraldine]

The guys were supplied with all the correct bits to do the job properly , the tubbed addy for the kitchen walls and white rapid set flexi for bathroom as they were large format (no sign of using that at all and deffo not returned )
Melinda was soooo tiny and she just turned up after the designers had arranged everything , i do think i might of cried a bit more than that if i came home to my front room looking like that though Still each to their own and all that

[Dave]

was that you on the telly keraldine...

[keraldine]

Yeah my 3 seconds of fame , really badly edited so not great advertising for us .
I was explaining that because we were giving them the goods we couldnt stretch to glass mosaics for the whole bathroom and all they showed was me saying how expensive they were OOPs

[Dave]

3 times more expensive than normal tiles....

[Alan.P]

Thanks for the info Keraldine Makes me wonder if it was just for show, " here's our tiler fixing tiles " he says " I'll just dot and dab for show for the cameras " Well you never know, as Keraldine says no mats were returned, sooooooooooooo maybe ???

I know, far too trusting

[LM Ceramics]

ye i saw it bit of a cowboy himself

[theyomper]

How about e mailing the builder, his e mail addy in on the programs web site, and asking if he employed a pro tiler or whether it was one of his navvies. No wthat would be fun....think I'll do that and keep you all informed

[theyomper]

Have just e mailed the builder. as follows......will I get a response?????

"I write in reference to this week’s program from Taunton and more specifically the tiling method employed when doing the bathroom.
The program showed your tiler using a ‘Dot and Dab’ method for the fixing of the wall tiles.
Any professional tiler would tell you that this method in the trade is considered to be a method employed by the novice or the cowboy and is not a recognised fixing method as it can lead to a multitude of problems, especially in a wet environment.
I understand the restraints put on an individual whilst being in front of a camera, having had the experience myself, however as the title of the program suggests, that it is produced to highlight the failings of ‘Cowboy Builders’, how can you justify using ‘Cowboy Techniques’ in putting right the errors of others and misleading Joe Public in believing that this is an acceptable method of tile installation?

I look forward to your comments.

P.Robinson"

[LM Ceramics]

Have just e mailed the builder. as follows......will I get a response?????

"I write in reference to this week’s program from Taunton and more specifically the tiling method employed when doing the bathroom.
The program showed your tiler using a ‘Dot and Dab’ method for the fixing of the wall tiles.
Any professional tiler would tell you that this method in the trade is considered to be a method employed by the novice or the cowboy and is not a recognised fixing method as it can lead to a multitude of problems, especially in a wet environment.
I understand the restraints put on an individual whilst being in front of a camera, having had the experience myself, however as the title of the program suggests, that it is produced to highlight the failings of ‘Cowboy Builders’, how can you justify using ‘Cowboy Techniques’ in putting right the errors of others and misleading Joe Public in believing that this is an acceptable method of tile installation?

I look forward to your comments.

P.Robinson"

you probably wont hear anything off them if you do it wont be a nice reply i bet

[Daz]

Have just e mailed the builder. as follows......will I get a response?????

"I write in reference to this week’s program from Taunton and more specifically the tiling method employed when doing the bathroom.
The program showed your tiler using a ‘Dot and Dab’ method for the fixing of the wall tiles.
Any professional tiler would tell you that this method in the trade is considered to be a method employed by the novice or the cowboy and is not a recognised fixing method as it can lead to a multitude of problems, especially in a wet environment.
I understand the restraints put on an individual whilst being in front of a camera, having had the experience myself, however as the title of the program suggests, that it is produced to highlight the failings of ‘Cowboy Builders’, how can you justify using ‘Cowboy Techniques’ in putting right the errors of others and misleading Joe Public in believing that this is an acceptable method of tile installation?

I look forward to your comments.

P.Robinson"

I'm curious.....did you get a response??

[Rob Z]

One of the best ones I ever saw on TV was a show where the "Pros" were remodeling a bathroom. They installed large (~18" X 198") porcelain tile over plywood with mastic and used a large notch trowel (I think it was a 3/4" U notch 19 mm in the UK ) and skimmed the back of each tile with more mastic as he set it.

OK, this gets better...

The floor had electric in-floor heat, bedded in the mastic setting bed for the tiles.

Even better: he cut a long channel in the plywood with a jigsaw so that he could get rid of the thick leads that led from the thermostat to the mat. This channel was about 2 feet long X an inch wide.

Cowboy, hack, butcher, sxxt for brains...take your pick, this guy was it.