What a nightmare they are. Hassle of other trades walking where they want. Gear in your way. Everyone in a rush. Doing a bar / grill place now and it's becoming a nightmare. We got the main upstairs done yesterday in project floors. In that room the bar ain't finished, painter ain't done, and a massive brick wall has to be sealed. Madness!!! The ladies black tile floor me and MIke done looks ruining now, scratches all over it. They have said they want to open on Friday and all downstairs ( 90m2 ) needs screeding over Ashpalt. What a joke. Give me a domestic job over this any day of the week.
I agree mate, those types of job are a joke. I spend the first day or 2 getting really ****ed off with every1 and then start to not give a **** myself. Not the sort of work I want to be doing
The amount of times I have turned up and all the other trades have laughed,so many times. We just used to pack our gear away and leave,we'd soon get a phone call saying go back it's all clear now They used to expect us to line borders up whilst every trade walk all over the carpet
Ha ha, this is how I spend my life. Was doing some latexing last week. Turned round and they had tipped 2 tonne of ballast over my primer. Unhappy dayz
Haha, nightmare. It's not just commercial, I had a Spacia job yesterday inn a kitchen, got there and not only were the kitchen fitters there but sparkies turned up as well! I boarded it out when they were on their break, fXcked off for a few hours and came back at 4pm, done in a hour. Would have been a nice easy job for a Friday otherwise.
Jobs like this are a joke. I've never understood why there's a rush to get flooring down. That's should be done when every other trade is finished and off site
We were doing a casino once,and the floor was all different levels,I told the foreman it will need screeding before we laid the carpet,he said that'll be ok just go over it the underlay will cover that. I got the shop we were doing it for to fax over a disclaimer for Him to sign first. He did not sign,but done the screed Just got to cover your ass all the time, He would of Denied all knowledge of our conversation if I never asked him to sign
Disclaimers are good for scaring muppets like that. Unfortunately though, it wouldn't stand up in court if he signed it or not and you'd still be liable, crazy I know.
Half the time on big jobs you spend to much time asking for areas to be cleared or finished so you can get on with what your doing or fighting with folk so you can just get on with your job, don`t do many but 9 times out of 10 it`s never straight forward. Couldn`t do it day in day out would rather fit Mrs x livingroom any day of the week. Plus how many site agents do any of us know that are actually allright to got on with? not many thats for sure, usually all we hitlers with a chip on their shoulder.
Thats my life, im lucky in a way as the site im going to be on next (two very big karndean jobs) I get on well with the site manager running those two cores so its alright very helpful guy, other sites though christ! just finished a staircase in carpet tiles (desso dash) and the glass was in on the handrails which made it nigh on impossible to cut the tiles in around the handrail post bases on the other side of the glass, mention it to the site agents that they need to get it taken out and they refused and where generally less than helpful the entire time I was there, on the site in hackney I stay well clear of the guy running the core im on as he is nothing short of an utter d*** throughly unhelpful and a proper jobs worth. Saying all that I much prefer commercial work to domestic, been doing the commercial stuff for just over a year and ive found its easier and financially more worth it over domestic stuff (dead my way on domestic) and found personally a bad site manager isnt as bad as a bad home owner.
Just going on own experience m8. Small example, was very fortunate that a new estate was getting built close to me and managed to get a lot of supply & fit, site manager hated me ( probably because the good looking lassie in the sales office was not getting enough comission on selling carpets) anyway my best m8s brother is an inspector for HSBC nicer guy you couldnt meet but on site he don`t take no sh**e, think they have to operate that way, he comes over hows tricks m8 blah blah usuall... the site manager became my ass licker just because I knew a HSBC inspector, sad to see just wish I got a lot more work their so I could see him squirm LOL
Got back yesterday with semi hang over from the flooring show ( I blame Dan and graham for gettin us on the beer early)then had to screed 90m2 ish with a mate. Never been so knackered. The place is opening Friday night. Crazy. I'm booked in Thursday to lay the floor and loads to be done by other trades. Going to be crazy. I can see me goin mad at someone. Also will the screed be dry??? Green bag over Ashpalt with no heating or air con done yet. No windows except for the front.
Green bag should go off. Few trades may of walked thru it before it had chance tho! On the topic of commercial jobs, I had a call back from my job last week, apparently we didn't put a door plate down in the kitchen. I said to the owner is the door close to the floor, yep, is there glue on the vinyl? Yep. The builder had ripped it up so he didn't have to cut the door, cheeky little bastard.
The amount of times I went back when I was doing hotels,they said the carpet has come up. When I got there you pull the carpet back and the underlay is not stapled anymore( the builders had pulled it up and ripped it) and the gripper where they had pulled it up has been put back down back the wrong way. And they say no one has pulled it up
Same as me Daz without the beer went to the show then on the way back 110m2 latex at Worksop college last little bit it got very dark so had to use torch whilst on the knees lol as trolled back in at 11pm knackered
Friday was a joke. I was goin mad at everyone. Put a wood batten across the room an some spark got under it then walked in the glue??? I said what did u think the batten was for an he said I don't know and walked off. Back there tomorrow to carry on. We had to move all the crap, boxes and tables ourselves. No one cares.
Getting there now. Finished laying the planks. Just got to go back after the cleaners and silicone, doortrims and weld. 21 arcs to cut round today. Slows ya right down.
