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Hi well i had my appointment with the chambers of commers was reffferred there from the jobcentre and had everything explained to me. Seems the best option for me to take as i have the next 8 weeks to make a business plan and also learn how to run the business with on a one to one basis with a...

How many times have been asked to tell the client how many tiles they need for their job ? Not how many m2....how many tiles but when you say " what size is the tile you have chosen" They reply...." We havent chosen yet until we know how many we need " !!!!! Client recently bought some Cheap...

I was just putting the last few cuts in a 35 m2 bathroom, 600 x 300 halfbond walls and floors when the builder walks in and says that the client had just emailed the plumber regarding some bits and pieces and said " dont forget to leave out for a border"....:mad2: WHAT BORDER ? No Borders here...

please feel free to post them things that don't make sense to you in everyday life as well as in the tiling trade ! could be fun/interesting .....:thumbsup:. i will start. Why don't tin- can food suppliers all put ring-pull lids on all can's ! this would make life easier and we would no longer...

Hi people, You'd probably be aware of weird glitches in the forum when it comes to loading pages and replying to posts. The forum would lose connection to the server. This *should* be fixed now. I'm still testing, but it does appear to be okay now. We've upgraded the PHP version on the...

I am posting this in a non public forum in the hope it will not get taken off there was a therad taken off tonite where yes a member did get ripped into by me and others but he did ask for it and people need to see as honest trades men we do not put up with this sort of thing i will now get...

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Now i thought i had seen everything when i saw an old lady at the top of the stairs naked from the waist down ,demanding that i get her some toilet roll,but today i was absolutely and totally beaten by one of my workmates,he is fitting sash windows in a heritage house in the town centre and i am...

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Started a bathroom install on monday and found what must be over 400 **** mags behind bath panel. 70s, 80s, 90s. Funny to see how women changed there grooming habits over these decades. Placed all these mags into 2 4ft high piles at top of stairs. The woman of the house seen them and asked us...

I have posted these in here, as its not good for my rep (such as it is in the gutter most of the time) to show this type of thing. I got asked to do a nero marquina book matched free standing unit, by an architect I had worked with before. However the main contractor wasn't best pleased that he...

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I was at a charity "do" a couple of weeks ago raising money for Muscular Dystrophy, my brother kindly treat me and Lou and 2 of my sisters and hubbies and paid for the table. Good on him:smilewinkgrin:. As the evening and auction wore on a few of us tradesman got together to auction our services...

What ****es me off......... ONE People who point at their wrist while asking for the time....I know where my watch is pal, where the **** is yours? Do I point at my crotch when I ask where the toilet is? TWO People who are willing to get off their arse to search the entire room for the TV...

I'm not expecting a full list of 50 from everyone :lol: Are there any things you've always wanted to do in life but have never got round to? I'd love to learn how to play the piano and learn another language, probably Spanish so I can complain to porcelanosa direct :lol: PS we're in general...

Any tilers like going to the exhibitions? Whats the funniest thing you have seen? Are you a contractor working at one of the exhibition halls. Maybe the NEC Birminhgam. Perhaps the Excel in London. Or some of the many many regional locations. We do 15 shows a year and have...

just saw this gorgeous yummy little glass kajak - I would love one!! and the clear warm water beach to go with it...and a deserted little private island to row out to... hmm... and so on.. :lol: anyhow, this is a thread for all you good people to post any fancy stuff (things, not people, ok?!)...

hello. questions? en-suite is 1.6metresx3.2metres with one window on the long wall. (Q1)when you fix your battern to the wall,would you fix a battern all the way round then put a single row on like when your laying bricks or mark out the rest of the walls and then do a wall at a time...

Driving through my local village today my daughter asked me about 'Mad Jack Fuller' so here it is. Have you got anything like this in your village? :thumbsup: Follies of Mad Jack Fuller in Brightling, East Sussex The members of the Fuller family were local landowners at Brightling, East...