Know all builders! - TilersForums.com

[area tiling]

Tiling onto a 22m2 green chipboard floor upstairs , told the customer it would be advisable to overboard with either some form of backer board or plywood , for extra strength, it would be more moisture resistant and peace of mind! When the builder heard this he said the usual rubbish , tiler doesn't know what he's talking about , they don't understand this new green chipboard ! Lol
Fact of the matter is that builder is in a hurry as usual, and that he doesn't want to be eating into anymore of his profits!!
Am not saying that you can't tile onto these green chipboard floors , but I don't want to be going back to repair any work so ill always do it right first time around!!

Question , ? Anyone else have these problems ?

 

[Spud]

Too often these days

 

[Protilers]

you are not alone.......but what do we know?

 

[Alan M]

this happens in every trade. some clown thinks he knows better. then he undermines you and makes you look like you know nothing or are out to money grab.
you are best to walk away and saw nothing infront of the customer then talk to them on your own. most will see that you are trying to help them and are willing to pay the little bit extra

 

[kilty55]

direct your customer here well soon put them right

 

[White Room]

Some plumbers can be just as bad from my experiance....

 

[Dougs Third Go]

tbh, backer boards don't add "extra strength" but they give a more suitable substrate to tile onto. A builder actually rang me today to ask what level the new floor should meet existing floor on an extension as he was aware that I'm a bit pedantic ( he actually said "anal" lol) about where and how to cover chipboard.

 

[charlie1]

Here is the problem I find with lots of tilers / builders, because they have done it in the past and the floor was still intact when they where leaving the customers cheque in hand, these cowboys have a reinforced feeling of "thats was a good job".... then 2 years pass.... they never get a call back....there feeling of "that was a good job" is growing day by day!.... meanwhile back at the ranch, floors are cracking, customers are just thinking "oh my grout is needing redone!, I shall call local tiler as this must be normal after 2 years"... some people have a very shortminded vision of a tiled floor, imo, a tiled floor should really last forever, not 3-5 years or even shorter.... you will never educate these idiots, they know better as they do it all the time!!!.....sorry, needed a rant!!

 

[Colour Republic]

tbh, backer boards don't add "extra strength" but they give a more suitable substrate to tile onto. A builder actually rang me today to ask what level the new floor should meet existing floor on an extension as he was aware that I'm a bit pedantic ( he actually said "anal" lol) about where and how to cover chipboard.

I was going to point that out myself but i'm a builder so what do I know?

 

[area tiling]

Really annoys me , was even questioning myself, but i guess ive got a conscious the customer seems a good person , but she's getting nudged in the wright direction! I've now lost out on the job as the builder has told her some rubbish that he has tiling priced into the job and his tiler has no worries tiling onto the green board !