I started a job yesterday for a very good friend. I was not charging him for laying hardibacker & tiling the floor (about 4.5sqm of porcelain). Before I started I noticed that his wall tiles were virtually coming away from the wall. So I took a picture of them.
I laid the Hardibacker and started spreading the addy. I slightly touched the bottom row of wall tiles with my trowel, and woah, 25 tiles came crashing down into the addy. I put the dirty ones into the sink to wash them. I turned on the tap, but unbeknown to me my mate had disconnected the waste pipe. The water just went straight through the plughole and onto the floor. My mate had done the measuring, and of course did not buy enough tiles for nice cuts. Luckily they were black tiles and black grout. I had to make some of the cuts a little bit shorter than I would have liked. It all worked out ok and my off cuts could easily fit into a Tesco carrier bag without it splitting. I packed up my tools and got into my car when I noticed a little yellow and black square stuck to my windscreen. A parking ticket. I was reeling on the way home. I had got a ticket for parking on a grass verge. The tires were barely touching the grass. When I got home I looked at the ticket. The parking attendant had got one digit incorrect for my registration number. I'm hoping that this invalidates the ticket. I checked online and the reg quoted belongs to a Toyota Rav4. Not a VW Golf. So, doing a good deed nearly cost me a £100 fine. BTW, my mate has now asked me to tile the wall where the tiles came away. I'll be charging for this one!
I laid the Hardibacker and started spreading the addy. I slightly touched the bottom row of wall tiles with my trowel, and woah, 25 tiles came crashing down into the addy. I put the dirty ones into the sink to wash them. I turned on the tap, but unbeknown to me my mate had disconnected the waste pipe. The water just went straight through the plughole and onto the floor. My mate had done the measuring, and of course did not buy enough tiles for nice cuts. Luckily they were black tiles and black grout. I had to make some of the cuts a little bit shorter than I would have liked. It all worked out ok and my off cuts could easily fit into a Tesco carrier bag without it splitting. I packed up my tools and got into my car when I noticed a little yellow and black square stuck to my windscreen. A parking ticket. I was reeling on the way home. I had got a ticket for parking on a grass verge. The tires were barely touching the grass. When I got home I looked at the ticket. The parking attendant had got one digit incorrect for my registration number. I'm hoping that this invalidates the ticket. I checked online and the reg quoted belongs to a Toyota Rav4. Not a VW Golf. So, doing a good deed nearly cost me a £100 fine. BTW, my mate has now asked me to tile the wall where the tiles came away. I'll be charging for this one!
:ban:i should have offered to do the tiling again but got somessing about the 1st time i never
