dotting and dabbing will cost you money

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

it think if you are doing very costly work it would pay the tiler, to get limited company status to , if faced with biggggg trouble you can go bump, and the trouble dies with the company, that makes sense as well

 

[stevee]

i got a call last week from distressd lady ,her tiler had ballsed it up round the window and refused to awnser the phone/come back and finish

porcalona/tec spanish quite heavy

when i got the there i could c there was no addy showing on the side,pulled the top 3 off to find this,dot & dab

also dodgy cut round window

 

[mikethetile]

well won gary

the problem with this other chap is that he works in isolation and doessnt have the benefit of continious on job learning

this forum is ideal to keep your knowledge current

maybe you can save him from bankruptcy by reccomending this site to him

 

[Spud]

As I said the guy wont listen, shame really as I dont like to see any one lose money especially when its easliy avoided

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

I must take exeption, on remarks about old timers, I am an " old timer" and I make a point of keeping up to date on latest fixing methods. I have recently surveyed a dot and dab job. He was a young fixer. Bad practice is not about age, but ignorance. They call me Half a mill Phil, thinking they are taking the mick. but I am proud of my nickname. (There is a funny story about its origin.

 

[White Room]

Are you going to tell us:smilewinkgrin:

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

OK. Whitebeam, Its not that funny really, years ago I ran a team of tilers, specialising in power vibration fixing, as foreman it was part of my job to set the screed levels,( semi-dry) . We were doing Aldi, Liddel and Netto stores. Up and down the country,did work in Europe, and had 4 trips to USA, we had a good reputation. One day on a Aldi store I was setting levels for screed, using dumpy + 2 lasers. The tiler who was holding the staff,a good fixer, can't mention names, had a strop I asked him to lower the dot, ( level) by 5mm , he lowered it to much, so I said up 2mm he raised it but on the dumpy it was still slightly low.So I said up half a mill. He threw the staff to the floor, and stormed off the job. When I asked his mate what was wrong? he said half a mill was nothing. This was a german spec, and 0 tolerance. The clerk of works was an old bricky, (a stickler) he kindly granted us a tolerance of +/- 1mm over a 3m box streight edge. So my idea was give them nothing to find fault with. We had a good run on those stores. About 10 yrs, good money,hard graft. A few years later a freind of mine who has been living and working as a tiler in Oz . Came home to the uk. I got him fixed up with a contracs manager who is a freind of mine. He started on a job where some of my old team were working. On the first dinner break, he happend to mention he used to work for Phil Hobson. To which the whole of the team, almost in unison replied, ( oh yeah Half a mill Phil). I am proud of that title. Sorry for going on. I told you it was'nt very funny.

 

[curlycan]

Phil were you by chance in engineering at some time, I was in engineering from leaving school 1986-2002. My wife always moans that everything I do diy wise needs to be to the nearest mm even if it doesn't matter. I'm trying to do this as much as I can in my Tiling being as accurate as the materials will allow and hope this will put me in good stead for the future.

 

[doug boardley]

better than "doug the slug":lol:

 

[curlycan]

ok just read reply and realise u not in engineering. I agree about not giving people things to find fault then you can't be blamed for things going boobs up.