How bad ?

[Sir Ramic]

How bad does a job have to be before whoever did it actually admits it ?
This was at a school where my daughter has swimming classes....how hard is it to cut a piece of trim somewhere close ?
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[Indy]

Admit it? Wasn't my fault there wasn't enough trim.

Anyway the trim was of really bad quality so it was impossible to do a good job.

I'm never wrong and have a certificate to prove it.

[Dan]

bugs me when I see stuff like that knocking about. I bet the pool people didn't even complain you know.

[Gall.B]

Could fit your head in that gap!

[Dave]

oooh nice,

[radim]

a wee drop of grout and will b ok.....

[Stewart]

It's a well known fact that trim needs to be cut like that for expansion.....(;0)

[tommyzooom]

At least they mirtred it, I,ve seen it butted together

[TF Ed]

nothing surprises me anymore..

[Sean fsy]

Probably because it wasnt a tiler who done it, more like a labourer or chippy or bricky who couldnt work outside because of rain. This goes on far to often me thinks.

[doug boardley]

you won't see it with your swimming goggles on

[Mike]

Probably because it wasnt a tiler who done it, more like a labourer or chippy or bricky who couldnt work outside because of rain. This goes on far to often me thinks.

you're right there, a painter/decorator told me today that a builder he works for has a polish guy doing all the trades for him, plumbing , tiling, plastering and electrics, and that's after he finishes his factory job at 2p.m.

[hillhead]

Looks well

[tilerjason]

its a movement joint

[jay]

missed it by that much

[andy8758]

you're right there, a painter/decorator told me today that a builder he works for has a polish guy doing all the trades for him, plumbing , tiling, plastering and electrics, and that's after he finishes his factory job at 2p.m.

In my part of the country, most builders have failed to pay all the genuine tradesmen - i.e. they commission work then just dont pay. So many of them are unable to sub-contract genuine plumbers, electricians, plasterer and tilers, because they have all been ripped off by the builders recently. So the builder continues to win contracts(!) but now uses Bobskivana the Lithuanian strawberry picker who once wired a plug for his uncle and dobs and dabs floor tiles over the 2.5mm T & E he used to wire in the 40Amp cooker......

[doug boardley]

Right, gonna jump on this right now, no need to slag off immigrant workforce, most I've met are very highly skilled tradesman that can do the job in question regardless of if they have to take on many jobs or not to make ends meet. Let's have less of these type of comments please as it goes against the grain of what TF is all about!

[Mike]

Right, gonna jump on this right now, no need to slag off immigrant workforce, most I've met are very highly skilled tradesman that can do the job in question regardless of if they have to take on many jobs or not to make ends meet. Let's have less of these type of comments please as it goes against the grain of what TF is all about!

i wasn't being racist doug, just getting the point across that there's people (this time a pole) is doing tradesmens jobs and undercutting the genuine workers.(and i doubt he'd be qualified in any of the trades never mind all 4)

[GC-Terrazzo]

The immigrants are starting to get in on the terrazzo down south and i can tell you there working for peanuts, been told there working for half the day rate the regulars work for and our day rate is nothing special.I honestly dont know how they could afford to work for that much.

[Tabby Cranks]

I'm with you Doug.
Cowboy builders were here before the eastern europeans, so who was doing the work then? Every country produces good and bad tradesmen. One of the best stone fixers I ever met was a bulgarian (not sure if that counts as eastern european). That guy charged a pretty penny for his work.

[GirlRacerRed]

i wasn't being racist doug, just getting the point across that there's people (this time a pole) is doing tradesmens jobs and undercutting the genuine workers.(and i doubt he'd be qualified in any of the trades never mind all 4)

Mike, Doug was responding to the post by Andy8758. But if you can refrain from generalising about people's skills unless in charge of the full facts, then that would be appreciated. It is afterall libelous and Dan is the one who tends to get it in the neck when somebody reads something posted by another member that is defamatory or derogatory. There are cowboys in every trade, and we are now seeing that it does not matter which part of the world they live in or they come from. There are as many genuine tradespeople from Eastern European countries as there are here in the UK, just as there are as many cowboys and chancers from both sides.

[Gall.B]

Can understand peoples frustrations but this has been going on for a long time, remeber going on to a job about 8 years ago for a large tiling contractor got pulled of a job to help on a 3000m floor there was another 7 guys there and guess what me and my mates where the only time served tradesmen there the rest had done a 2 week course and thought they knew it all we had a former chef a ski instructor a guy who said he played pro with Swansea all doing it cheaper than real pros! We seen there first strech was a bit curvy and walked off the job and suprise we were back 2 months later trying to fix the inevitable mess 150mm of the square over 10m etc................. oh and they where all Brittish!

[whitebeam]

We was getting British chancers when I was first on sites 40 years ago, so not a new thing.