Better get cracking!

[trevortine]

This week was gonna be a quiet one mainly down to weather, big mahoosive set of steps to do but the weather says no. As i walked into garage with my cup of tea in hand after a long lie i thought i would tidy van out and have a kinda potter about. Phone rang, shopfitters desparate for 150 m2 600x600 in a shop right in middle of glasgow. Went to see it, priced it and was hoping to start tonight but due to many phone calls to and fro between contractors, shop owners, site foreman, the price wasnt confirmed till 6pm! Managed to get down to supplier and get enough addy for tomorrow and will be on site for 7am! It has to be finished by friday so have to work day and night, as i say, better get cracking!

[whitebeam]

Nice one, never can tell whats going to turn up..

[trevortine]

Hope it goes ok, there was bodies everywhere working when we went to see it this morning! Could hardly move! Alledgedly getting cleared out this evening!

[hillhead]

Get in there Trevor !! sweet one.

[Phil Hobson]

Good luck Trev, shop fitting I know that well, nine trades in a room 1m x 1m, done it all my life, still doing it.

[hillhead]

Dusty floors, power leads galore, adhesive not setting quickly enough, peeps walking through wet primer, step ladders all over the place,lol.
The life of a tiler..... we love it all.

[Dave]

Fingers crossed you can get on


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[timeless john]

Good Luck - The problem I find with shopfitting work is the still want a competitive price but its only the workers who lose out as you are held up all the time.
We were putting a hardstand down around a bar as the were laying a carpet up to our trims - if you lost any tools they were under the carpet!
And then to top it all you had to wait 3 months for your bit.
Nowt good about shopfitting work for us.

[Rich]

Got to be better than sitting on your backside and Im sure it will pay better to. Get your self some Redbull and some death metal tapes and show it who's boss!!!

[trevortine]

Went in tues morn and done upstairs, around 20m2 into five different rooms so lot of cutting round door standards etc, turned up at 12pm on wed and by 1130pm had 71m2 tiled and grouted, thurs done around 35 m2 around 2 colomns and nightmare bit where floor level changed and had to cut tiles all sorts of shapes to accomodate slope. Yesterday went in at 10, only to be told come back tonight!! went back in and done stairwell and changing rooms, finished off 4 or 5m2 at front that was packed with cabinets, grouted all and was home for 1130. So all in all we done ok, just the bathroom floor and hallway upsairs to finish on mon night. Contractor says client might have issue with grout lines though, they wanted 1.5mm gaps on floor, no one even mentioned it and i had already agreed a 5mm joint with the site foreman, hope theres no probs as the md was in last night full of praise for us and asking how far we travel!

[Bathfix Bob]

Wow thats some hard work there mate, nice one.

I hope the customer is happy with the grout lines, going through a third party always leads to complications.

[Rich]

Well done mate, sounds like you have made some pennies on that one