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The continuation of the never ending bathroom.
It's been over a year in the planning, I did 6 days work prepping the room (everything moved, floor ripped up and lowered, stud walls etc etc etc), then the slate the customer bought on the internet turned up all scratched and new had to be sourced. Then they live in London and are only up here so often so it's been ongoing since early April. Fussy is not the phrase, but it's a high end bathroom and she wants it right. But turning up on a morning and finding 3 or 4 300 x 600 slate tiles that I've fitted the day before on the floor because they where too 'rough' or didn't like how the textures matched in with the rest wears a little thin.
Anyway the customer is always right, and I'm keeping track of time etc, but yesterday was first day back on the job due them being away, hurt my thumb at the weekend so decided to do some grouting (wish I hadn't because I can't move my hand today). Really fetched out the work and I was as pleased as punch, good feedback from customer that she was liking it.
Well gets up this morning and when I come downstairs there's a message waiting for me on the phone. "I am not sure about the tiling now the grout is in, the spacing looks even more out - flaws and the uneveness of the surfaces are quite bad. So I am considering removing them all and starting the tiling process again. I need the weekend to consider and get some other opinions. I don't think it's a good idea to do any further work at this stage so don't worry about coming over today. I will be in touch again to discuss it with you."
To say I'm a little cheesed off is the understatement of the century. All spacings were agreed before tiling commenced and the number of times we have had the 'slate is a natural product and there are a lot of variations with texture and thickness (even though it's supposed to be calibrated)'. There's nearly 40 square metres of the bloody stuff stuck on the walls, and it's well stuck.
I honestly want to turn around and say do one. It's going to be soul destroying removing all that work when there is nothing wrong with it, just because she doesn't like it now.
It's been over a year in the planning, I did 6 days work prepping the room (everything moved, floor ripped up and lowered, stud walls etc etc etc), then the slate the customer bought on the internet turned up all scratched and new had to be sourced. Then they live in London and are only up here so often so it's been ongoing since early April. Fussy is not the phrase, but it's a high end bathroom and she wants it right. But turning up on a morning and finding 3 or 4 300 x 600 slate tiles that I've fitted the day before on the floor because they where too 'rough' or didn't like how the textures matched in with the rest wears a little thin.
Anyway the customer is always right, and I'm keeping track of time etc, but yesterday was first day back on the job due them being away, hurt my thumb at the weekend so decided to do some grouting (wish I hadn't because I can't move my hand today). Really fetched out the work and I was as pleased as punch, good feedback from customer that she was liking it.
Well gets up this morning and when I come downstairs there's a message waiting for me on the phone. "I am not sure about the tiling now the grout is in, the spacing looks even more out - flaws and the uneveness of the surfaces are quite bad. So I am considering removing them all and starting the tiling process again. I need the weekend to consider and get some other opinions. I don't think it's a good idea to do any further work at this stage so don't worry about coming over today. I will be in touch again to discuss it with you."
To say I'm a little cheesed off is the understatement of the century. All spacings were agreed before tiling commenced and the number of times we have had the 'slate is a natural product and there are a lot of variations with texture and thickness (even though it's supposed to be calibrated)'. There's nearly 40 square metres of the bloody stuff stuck on the walls, and it's well stuck.
I honestly want to turn around and say do one. It's going to be soul destroying removing all that work when there is nothing wrong with it, just because she doesn't like it now.
