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[macten]

This might be one for Ray but how do you politely/professionally explain to customers, who are otherwise perfectly intelligent adults, that adopting the gait of someone who's shat themselves whilst on their tippy toes in no way influences their bodyweight or grants them the Jesus like ability to walk on water?

 

[Qwerty]

Not a good end to your week then I take it!!??

 

[macten]

Once - okay, we've all done it but 4 times!!?!!

 

[hmtiling]

This might be one for Ray but how do you politely/professionally explain to customers, who are otherwise perfectly intelligent adults, that adopting the gait of someone who's shat themselves whilst walking on their tippy toes in no way influences their bodyweight or grants them the Jesus like ability to walk on water?

hahahah! i feel your pain! i had one the other week, a retired doctor, who walked on unset tiles after taking his shoes off and thought that would be ok!

 

[hmtiling]

Once - okay, we've all done it but 4 times!!?!!

Ah, that's a bit different

 

[Andy Allen]

I had one blame the cat !!
Hard to believe unless the cat weighed 15 stone !

 

[On one]

Typical. ...... I have just left a half finished kitchen floor done in slow set, for the weekend............got me worried what awaits on Monday morning!

 

[Kyle Knowles]

U should go to there place of work and destroy there days work and say oops sorry I thought it would be ok

 

[One Day]

Get their cat and stand lightly on it!

 

[Rizzle from the Portizzle]

tape across all door ways big sign stuck to them.going past this point will cost you hundreds of pounds
in repairs .

 

[widler]

I had one, I came back the morning after, someone had walked right across the floor and back, you could see where each step had been made,she said id left it it like that
id put straight edges and levels at the too of the stairs (it was a cellar kitchen) with a big sign, it had been taken away.
After a few choice words, i came to the conclusion that as it was a old house " "it must be the ******* ghost then love"
Which she didnt take to well, grabbed my arm marched me upstairs telling me her husband is on his way home to sort me out.
I waited for a while, for the husband, he never came, he had obviously seen my 5.8 frame and my little hands and thought better of it i politely knocked on the door, asked for my tools and never went back .

 

[WetSaw]

I think I saw that job on here.
"Is this lippage acceptable? I queried the tiler about it and he walked out of the job and won't answer my calls"...

 

[widler]

They were , erm riven rustic rusty slate tiles

 

[Flintstone]

Bad times that! No payday?

 

[widler]

Only a days work .
Just glad to get away from the dichead.
Wish I had photos , but it was the days before mobiles , never mind camera phones

 

[ttt tiling]

I usually say " Oh those tiles are ready to be walked on are they? , was wondering when the adhesive would be set" That normally leads to a very bewildered look ! Try not to shout at customers any more , not good PR.

 

[One Day]

I left the floor of a glass link half-tiled today. Barriers and tape at all 3 doors. Signs up too. I spoke with both Mr & Mrs and also advised that they have a word with their large dog.
Seeing as the temp today was barely over 7c I expect the adhesive will stay soft for quite some time....

 

[macten]

I'm struggling with hens just popping in and walking all over the work area at the moment. Can't close the French doors as I've got power cables running outside. Yes they don't weigh much but they don't half crap everywhere.

 

[Kyle Knowles]

Could do with a fox

 

[gazmcd72]

The old days of octagon and dot i did a small bathroom floor told the lady I would be back in the morning to grout it and not to walk over it over night . I returned the next day to find tiles all butted together and no joints a said to her that I told her not to walk on it overnight she replied I didn't I just mopped it from the door . "OH DID I LAUGH" not

 

[macten]

Did a porch Monday and had to clear half a ton of shoes, flip flops, wellies, bicycle helmets, coats, toy boxes etc... etc...
Turned up to start kitchen splashback today at same house:

There's 2 more walls of crap like that you can't see.
Some people really are dumbass, clueless, lazy t##ts
Grrrrr

 

[Flintstone]

I would not move all that stuff, i would politely tell them they need to move it

 

[Andy Allen]

Ha ha
Hold your arm out across the work top move it forward in a swinging motion till all the crap ends on the floor .....then tile away......

 

[WetSaw]

I tell them the area has to be cleared. If it's not they're paying for me to clear it!

 

[One Day]

Just make like a carpet fitter!

 

[Mark Frost]

eerr mm.. is there a skip outside

 

[On one]

Did a porch Monday and had to clear half a ton of shoes, flip flops, wellies, bicycle helmets, coats, toy boxes etc... etc...
Turned up to start kitchen splashback today at same house:

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There's 2 more walls of crap like that you can't see.
Some people really are dumbass, clueless, lazy t##ts
Grrrrr

I've met this scene before and the customer has said ''what do you want me to move''

 

[Blunt Tool]

I've got a bit of OCD, not the first time away to start a kitchen and washed all the dishes and pans first, dried them, cleaned the worktops and put them away haha I keep saying next time I won't do it but heho!

 

[macten]

Won't stay looking like this for long

Found 2 dead gold fish on the floor when I was tooling up!

 

[Bathfix Bob]

I've worked in houses like that, squander everywhere, you cant move for it.
Once did job for and old boy a total horder of true documentry style, scaffolding sections proped up against the dining room table (not that you could see it) and rotten apples strewn all over the floors downstairs he kept bringing in from the apple tree.