bigest mistake you ever made

[nybor62]

once turned up to site persimmon homes saw site agent pointed out which plot i was doing . ent in wrong plot & tiled kitchen floor half way through hit a snag with floor called site agent over to me explained problem .he said you have a bigger prob your in wrong house .how gutted was i felt sick

[andy allen]

tiled a kitchen floor with the wrong tiles once while the customer was on holiday.
she come home and was in tears when she rang me.
however as it turned out it wasnt my fault, i always keep every note, scrape of paper, everythink relating to a job till its finished, so when me and the customer retraced every think back turns out the tile shop write down the wrong codes.
i dont feel its fair to mention the name of the shop, but lets say there not "topps" of that customers xmas card list.

[Wingn]

Biggest mistake for me was getting caught urinating outside by the chief Health & Safety officer of a massive shopping centre job. Didn't go down too well.

[nybor62]

Biggest mistake for me was getting caught urinating outside by the chief Health & Safety officer of a massive shopping centre job. Didn't go down too well.

bet he was ****ed off

[Wingn]

Made me walk to the nearest shop (about a mile away) and buy Domestos to bleach the area or I was off the job. Wouldn't have minded, but I had only been on the job for a few hours.

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

yes they have no adventure these day's!! it use to be a chalenge sometimes finding a place to have a wizz!!!

[Dave Ramsden]

When I was an apprentice my boss and I entered a house, him in the ouse bathand me in the en-suite... Customer came in around 11 and we had fair cracked on apart from we had tiled plot 10 with plot 11's tiles.
Gaffer also chipped a bath taking tiles off, needless to say we were in the boozer for about 1pm that day!

[whitebeam]

I got married and split up 20 months later

[kilty55]

getting on the train to coventry and going for a nice wee nap,,,,,,then awakening in aberdeen as i got on the wrong train

[Fekin]

Can't think of any real bad mistakes, thankfully.

[deanotile]

Gaffer was on holiday but he had sorted all the tiles for the week and left the job sheets in the office.
My first job was in Shrews-bury so off I went. Got to the site found plot 69 and proceeded to tile the bathroom, en-suite 1, en-suite 2, kitchen, utility, and cloak room. Then I went to the site office to get the job sheet signed the site agent said I can not sign this as it is for plot 69 Welsh-pool.

[hillhead]

Not taking up tiling at 18

[Scott]

Biggest mistake for me was getting caught urinating outside by the chief Health & Safety officer of a massive shopping centre job. Didn't go down too well.

At least you went outside!

[richie b]

biggest mistake i made we were tiling a house out in the sticks and i really needed the toilet so went in the woods at back of house because there was no toilet, and i wiped with some deck webbing the one ya get with ardex superflex waterproofing, i didnt know at the time it got bits of fiberglass in it

[mikethetile]

biggest mistake i made we were tiling a house out in the sticks and i really needed the toilet so went in the woods at back of house because there was no toilet, and i wiped with some deck webbing the one ya get with ardex superflex waterproofing, i didnt know at the time it got bits of fiberglass in it

[Phil Hobson]

biggest mistake i made we were tiling a house out in the sticks and i really needed the toilet so went in the woods at back of house because there was no toilet, and i wiped with some deck webbing the one ya get with ardex superflex waterproofing, i didnt know at the time it got bits of fiberglass in it

Ooooouch

[andy8758]

Richie - you get my thx for having the best mistake on here - thats just priceless!

Every job I seem to do has a mistake. Worse one to date is when tiling a floor. Prepping at end of a long day I lifted a loose floorboard found 2 radiator pipes wrapped in hessian in middle passing over a joist. Screwed down edges of board, and went to pack up. Customer runs out to tell me water is coming through ceiling below. Returned and lifted floorboard to find plumber had used nailed clips for pipes over joist. One had worked loose, inside hessian (!!) and when I secured florrboard it forced thye nail through the pipe......

I hate screwing down floorboards to prevent flexing.

[diamondtiling]

I laid a floor for a regular customer about 5 years back, it was 300x300 porcelain. He came back from work and I was just finishing the grouting. His first words were "very nice, but why did you lay them straight? I asked for brick bond"
I checked my notes and he was right.......Dooohhh!!!

We waited for his wife to come in and both agreed that the floor would either be left down or lifted and relayed at my expense depending on her reaction. She came in and said "ooh, thats lovely, it makes the kitchen look so much bigger, thanks Dom"
I bought him 6 bottles of red wine that cost me £60, better than the £600 it would have cost for the tiles plus time and materials, and I have since done his daughters bathroom, he rang me every hour to make sure I was doing it right and to take the micky.