Too Much Too Soon - Advice Please

[Weebisto]

Guys thanks for all your comments. Yesterday was a rough day but your support encouragement and ideas have really helped

 

[Andy Allen]

I was thinking of @Andy Allen ...
at 51 and continues to do kitchen splashbacks...
but it is ot from the above discussion.

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I'm not a tile snob..

 

[Sean Kelly]

I feel for you, but you do have the right attitude. I did a tiling course many years ago (see the link at the bottom of this post). I did not feel it was the right thing to go into peoples houses and 'practice' on their expensive tiles. So I spent a year on the building sites practicing on their tiles! I was earning £40 a day, but I had just got paid redundancy so was able to still live.
The main thing about working on site is that you have space to work (it's a building site!). Tiling a family bathroom with the family still living there and it's the only bathroom is a nightmare in itself.

By the sounds of it you also got a 'bad' customer.
We all get nightmare jobs from time to time and you will learn from them.

Good luck with the business.

 

[Italy]

I'm not a tile snob..

me neither.
look what I did 15 days ago.
2 elderly gentlemen in wheelchairs.
there was a step between the kitchen and the room,
every time they had to go outside to go to the kitchen.
her nephew has demolished everything in the evening
and I the next morning put mortar on the wall
and I laid the tiles with sand and cement.
so, everyone happy.
I'm more than happy to give you life
to two elderly,
making a floor of 40sqm.
with this job I could win jotm.
but some members would not understand.

 

[Albert]

me neither.
look what I did 15 days ago.
2 elderly gentlemen in wheelchairs.
there was a step between the kitchen and the room,
every time they had to go outside to go to the kitchen.
her nephew has demolished everything in the evening
and I the next morning put mortar on the wall
and I laid the tiles with sand and cement.
so, everyone happy.
I'm more than happy to give you life
to two elderly,
making a floor of 40sqm.
with this job I could win jotm.
but some members would not understand.

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I think i understand you took out the step and made a ramp?

 

[Italy]

Ithink i understand you took out the step and made a ramp?

see the ladder to the left?
now missing a step
there was a 20 cm high floor.
as big as the floor I did.
do you need a drawing?

 

[Albert]

see the ladder to the left?
now missing a step
there was a 20 cm high floor.
as big as the floor I did.
do you need a drawing?

No, you took out a landing and made all level

 

[Italy]

No, you took out a landing and made all level

yes , landing in italy pianerottolo.
google translate,did not translate landing.

 

[Sean Kelly]

Seamless Antonio!

You have made those wheelchair users more independant and saved the back of their carer.

Definitely HOTM (Hero Of The Month).

 

[GoneGuy]

Well done @antonio, you have helped someone be more independent and happier.