against the grain

[faithhealer]

went to quote a shower, tiles coming off, dot and dab, should be able to strip it in an hour but the actual mixer shower has it's pipes running horizontally from the corner of the shower, from sub flush to into the shower. You can't tile there so there is a 50mm channel of 'filler'. She doesn't want it putting right just re tile as per existing. A days pay is a days pay but what would you do?

[united]

I had a situation a bit like that this week was tiling a shower room and the pipe work for the shower came down the corner then across the tiles into the shower, I said I could fix it so the pipes were hidden or at least move the pipes to make it neater but the customer said no just do the tiling

I did the tiling, they were pleased and booked me to come back in Sept to do upstairs too

Anyway as you say a jobs a job and if the customer wants it the way it is then that's all you can do

[timeless john]

It's a difficult one to advise!
Someone will do it for her if you don't and a days pay is just that. In these testing times it's really a case of - do you have enough work to walk away or is the customer in a situation that to do it would help her out considerably.
For me if I felt that it would be leaving it 'unsightly' then I'd not get involved.
Would it be possible to overboard the mixer wall to take the depth of the pipes into consideration and tile over?

[faithhealer]

It's a difficult one to advise!
Someone will do it for her if you don't and a days pay is just that. In these testing times it's really a case of - do you have enough work to walk away or is the customer in a situation that to do it would help her out considerably.
For me if I felt that it would be leaving it 'unsightly' then I'd not get involved.
Would it be possible to overboard the mixer wall to take the depth of the pipes into consideration and tile over?

would creep over the tray. Mentioned to her I could re do the pipework for her, chase it deeper into the wall but she seemed adamant that it was good enough! I'll probably take her money (or somebody else will but I won't be a happy bunny

[Scott]

Do it, customer is always right.

Could get her to put it in writing incase it fails?

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

as above mate