What is the craziest job you have ever done ? - Tile Advice

[Leatherface]

Just thought I would start a new thread,
there are many businesses out there who get one firm to do all their shop fitting nation wide as it makes good sense to allow one contractor to send relaible tradesmen who will get the job done on time and to a good standard ( rather than find trades in every town or city that the shops are situated )

My most seemingly pointless jobs recently have been :

Travel from Halifax to Scotland in one day to fix one and a half metres of tiles to a shop front.

Also travel from Halifax to Stoke to replace three tiles at the Wedgewood museum.

Can anyone beat this ?

Am waiting for someone to ask me to go to Ibiza to replace and grout one mosaic tile ! Any offers ? :yes:

 

[knightonthetile]

Belfast to Dublin for 1 tile that the plumber cracked. job was tiled 2wks prev,well rewarded for my efforts though :yes: happy days,wud do it every day if i cud get away with it

 

[Leatherface]

happy days

 

[doug boardley]

Belfast to Dublin for 1 tile that the plumber cracked. job was tiled 2wks prev,well rewarded for my efforts though :yes: happy days,wud do it every day if i cud get away with it

did you tell us about that one a while ago, if i'm correct you got rewarded quite handsomely!:hurray:

 

[knightonthetile]

Not me just done this before xmas. wud luv to tell you what i got for my trouble but sometimes the missus reads these and what i got and what she thinks i got somehow don,t tally up if you know what i mean,suffice to say it kept me in guinness over xmas. :dizzy2:

 

[doug boardley]

Not me just done this before xmas. wud luv to tell you what i got for my trouble but sometimes the missus reads these and what i got and what she thinks i got somehow don,t tally up if you know what i mean,suffice to say it kept me in guinness over xmas. :dizzy2:

nuff said!!unk:

 

[Gazzer]

Birmingham to Dublin for 5m2 floor.

 

[murf]

I once tiled :yikes:a bathroom in a mental asylum.

 

[geordietiler]

newcastle to maidstone for 2 skirting tiles at beaverbrooks entrance

 

[Leatherface]

Mental
These contract shop fitting companies must be making a killing, god knows what they are charging if they can afford to pay us our rate and still make a profit

 

[rbz1744]

Tiled 200m2 of a footballers wives type house only to be called back 8 months later to tile over tile as the customer found it difficult to keep the original polished porcelain clean - happy days

 

[davy_G]

To replace a 'few' loose tiles on a huge curved door step. Asked by a mate over the phone, went round one evening, the whole thing was boast the concrete screed was boast as well. Kango job, what i expected to be a fri avo job turned into a 3 weeker by the time the new step i constructed and cured & the new tiles came.

 

[medlar]

tiled a complete downstairs for an irish couple,just plain black 400x400 ceramic,living room,dining room,kitchen,lobby,toilet, passageway and conservatory,then added tiled skirting,i was sick of seeing black tiles, oh and the black grout,the job looked horrible but they liked it

another queer job, travelled all the way to norfolk to replace 2 tiles for wilkinsons hardware stores in thier ladies rest room as the edges had chipped and a lady worker slashed her foot and put in " where theres blame theres a claim" but part of my contract with wilkinsons states that i must travel to any of there branches whenever.

Jimmy

 

[d noulton]

done a job couple years ago listed building in kent eynsford to be precise
lovely village anyway kitchen floor never seen a floor so uneven like tiling the waves of the sea I said to the customer do you want the floor leveled oh my god no tile it as it is she said happy days lippage everywhere just as she wanted :8::hurray:

 

[Wow Tiling]

had a few strange jobs over the years but a couple that spring to mind are

plymouth to aberdeen to meet a sparks to sort out some ufh at a health club

working nights tiling a floor in a crematorium

and being asked to tile a farmhouse kichen floor out off square to make it look rustic

but all the above were well paid so can't complain, in fact would like a few now if truth be told