Need some URGENT advice

[whitebeam]

I agree, you can stick site work where the sun don't shine.

[GazLC81]

This is why the idea of doing site/contract work fills me with dread!

You go into pretty much any toilet of a pub or club or whatever and you can see that they have just started in the bottom corner and usually ended up with small cuts everywhere looks a mess.

Is it just me that scrutinises the tiling of every toilet I go in?

Gaz

[Falcone]

I havent even done ma first job yet and I'm checking out tiles in boozer toilets... FFS this is it begun!! lol

[felix]

Think I'll avoid site work if thats what its like. Don't think I'll buy a new build house either

[whitebeam]

On the site I worked on so many houses were Housing trusts, they had there own inspectors checking the quality of work every couple of days, the propertys that were being sold, did'nt seem to concerned. 35 years ago on council housing sites you had a clerk of works and he was'nt letting you get away with nothing.

[Regthing]

Originally Posted by GazLC81

Is it just me that scrutinises the tiling of every toilet I go in?

LOL

I've just finished my first tiling job (my own bathroom) and I found it very reassuring that I had done a much better job than any of the pub toilets in the town (and WAY better than the toilets in the Glasgow Ikea )

hi mate where in crewe are you working?
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there are plenty of good main contractors out there fellas, my books full of them, ditch the bad and keep the good, 3/4 of my income is from site work but i have done it for a long time, if the contractor turns up on a horse and says things like "the hell i will" or they sing "rawhide" get in the van and go.

p.s. this reply is only for old fogies over 35, the young uns wont know what i am talking about, your good friend hoss

[tiler tom]

Maybe the attitude to take is do as the site asks after all they are the customer so to speak and try not to worry about the end result if it is done how they wanted, although you do run the risk off not being employed by them in the future when the work is snagged and they have to pay out for doing it again properly. It seems all sites are not like this though, months ago I was offered site, nice new walls and power where you needed it, £20 a metre supply your own grout and adi. The trouble was they wanted everything bang on no corner cutting and for a 3.5 metre kitchen with loads off sockets earning £70 over 2 days did not appeal. In fact I know that they were losing a tiler on a weekly basis and had to continualy get a replacement.

[faithhealer]

talking to a contract tiler the other day who works for various local builders. Never primed a wall for 20 yrs!!! As Chase said, fast and aggressive!!