So How Was Your Day? - TilersForums.com

[John Benton]

mmmmm.......I wonder Geoff. Maybe its because I started life as a structural and mechanical engineer and I can smell them a mile off

 

[Just Rizzle]

the only plan I have ever done tile for tile is the one on my aviator as each tile was only correct in that position as it was a 5 x7 mtr ellipse. engineers do my head was he checking with his micromiter .

 

[John Benton]

hate it when some one gives me plans to work to I all ways ask them how long have they been tiling.

I did a job for a graphic designer and he had laid out the plans exactly the same tile for tile, but he wasn't that smart, he forgot the grout joints and had the window slightly out of position which in turn threw everything out, so I taught him a lesson and told him to go and buy 2 more boxes of tiles as he'd bought the exact number of tiles required

 

[White Room]

I done a subway with a pattern to follow, about 11 colours involved...someone got paid a nice sum for that.

 

[Qwerty]

Hahaha, same here.....he forgot the grout joints and said only 8 tiles would need cutting!!!

 

[Just Rizzle]

Mapped floor. the plan is in the bottom corner

 

[John Benton]

the only plan I have ever done tile for tile is the one on my aviator as each tile was only correct in that position as it was a 5 x7 mtr ellipse. engineers do my head was he checking with his micromiter .

One of my customers asked what tolerances I worked to. I told him I was training to be a brain surgeon but the tolerances weren't fine enough so I changed my career to tiling, made him smile.

Or like my plumber says when you ask him what tolerances he works to, he just says if he's in the right street that close enough, with a wry smile.

 

[Andy Allen]

Had one tell me he was an engineer that worked to a 1,000th of an inch. .....told him I'm a tiler and get it spot on.....

 

[p4ulo]

Everything was the customers exact choice .

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So, the reason he didn't want the mosaic feature in line with the waste / in the middle of the shower tray was because he wanted you to use less tiles? Shame, it does look a bit wonky doesn't it?
Great grout match to wall tiles Jeffy, can't even see which way the grout lines run on them walls....!

 

[Qwerty]

Yes, it is a shame. What's annoying is that nothing is central in that room to anything at all. Even the basin unit is off centre just as he wanted!!!

Still, made them a light pull with the off cuts

 

[Dougs Third Go]

Which particular area of engineering does your client specialise in Geoff?

..never work for engineers or teachers.... oh hang on, I'm married to a welding lecturer, no wonder I can do bugger all right haha!

 

[John Benton]

Yes, it is a shame. What's annoying is that nothing is central in that room to anything at all. Even the basin unit is off centre just as he wanted!!!

Still, made them a light pull with the off cuts

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Its a wonder we met up with the French with him on the project then, but then again, was it really a good job we did?

 

[J Sid]

A take on all your favourite metro's today in a shower.
3 colours, 8 different patterns

 

[Just Rizzle]

Been to the forbidden corner today the strangest place

 

[Just Rizzle]

Bit of Yorkshire on the way to the job today beets London any day