Looks a great product is. But Who on earth would try an stick a full piece of gripper and also nice to see the fitter wearing jeans. Professional.
Funny you mention a fitter in jeans. Went to see a job that I priced but another firm got. They were using cheap alternatives to what we quoted but anyway I saw one of their guys and said we quoted for this. He said we probably got it as we have better fitters. The guy doing the underlay was in jeans!
Thats just mad isn't it, almost as good as using an estate car with carpet on the roof. I do my best to look professional with proper work attire I.e printed/embroidered t-shirts and snickers fitters trousers probably like most of us on here.
That's great we could sell that all day long... anyone know who to contact with regards to this product.? Is it only available in the US.. Rugrat www.carpetfittersshoponline.co.uk
Why is it unprofessional to wear jeans ? I do, most of the time, as I find most fitting trousers uncomfortable. If I don`t have a logo on my t-shirt, and Snicker`s on my knees, does that make me a bad fitter ?
Didn't say it made people bad fitters. To me its just looks unprofessional and fitters I know/seen who wear jeans also drive round in estate cars which to me also looks unprofessional. Most fitters I know wear some sort of work pants be it snickers dickies, or whatever brand. If you prefer to wear jeans that's your choice but im also allowed my opinion. Never said you was a bad fitter Neilydun.
Your entitled to your opinion, of course. I just found it strange, that you thought because the guy was wearing jeans, he would be unprofessional. I do have an estate car by the way ! Just don`t use it for work, ha
Sorry I didn't mean he was an unprofessional fitter just looked unprofessional to me wearing jeans especially as they are advertising a new product. I'll let you off having an estate car as long as you don't use it for work. Lol
to be fair Neilydun we hear it all the time about how the 'cowboy' fitter turns up in jeans etc. I know your not a cowboy (well charlie anyway) but it is looked up on as a cowboy. Just shows you how so many people judge a book by a cover ! I get to meet a lot more fitters than the average person due to the job i do. Looks and what someone wears i have learnt myself can be very deceiving. I know of plenty high quality installers that look like a bag of crap when they turn up. I also see installers that looks like a Snickers advert and are the worlds worse fitters, the way you look has absolutely no reference on how good you are. However, customers dont get to see what i see (the quality of installers). Customers for some reason look at fitters in two ways - scruffy/jeans/tracksuit etc = cheap fitter but poor quality Flash/ all singing and dancing/ brand new van etc = high quality but expensive. Its wrong really. But to be fair we all do it ! Lets say you go to a top restaurant, what do you expect the chef to be wearing? 1- Tracksuit / jeans / scruffy looking? 2- Chef whites / clean and well presented? Im sure you expect to see No2 ? Daft thing is teh tracksuit / jeans person could well be the best chef in the world.
my mrs just read the above and said "like a chav" ??? What is a Chav? she said to ask you lot to explain to me what a 'chav' is ???
I'm an inbetweener then ? Dress smart in my nice snickers (& blagged branded Tshirts) in my tatty looking Van ?
Matt I like your comments there. I hope Neilydun understood what I meant. To give an example I came into fitting floors at 30yrs old after being made redundant. The guy John who trained me was an awesome carpet/vinyl fitter trained by his dad from being at school. We did the Karndean course together even though he'd been fitting it in Matalans/Marks for years but wanted the certificate for doing domestic work and we won fitters of the week as well. Point I'm making is John wore jeans for work but I eventually got him to wear snickers but even then he wouldn't use knee pads so eventually the knee's wore out and he didn't replace them just kept wearing these pants with no knees. Can you imagine what customers faces were like when he turned up to their house faced with this scruffy looking guy and to top it off he smoked alot (which customers didn't like too) so the independent shop we worked at told him to smarten up or ship out. He was a stubborn so an so and eventually the shop let him go which in turn affected me so we parted ways too. I'll always be grateful to John but he was his own worst enemy. There are lots of cracking fitters out there who really need to smarten up a tad it can only help them in the long run. Ive not got a brsnd new van but I present myself well and it seems to go a long way.
It has to be snickers or equivalent for me and the same goes for the lads that fit for me. We've just had a lad in who talked the talk about what he was able to fit and would i give him a chance to start for me. He assured me he had proper fitting gear and clothing, we agreed for him to wear my branded polo shirt as it was my job. The bugger showed up in the worst ripped pair of joggers, filthy old trainers and my polo shirt all crumpled. By lunch time the customers has called me wanting a visit to examine the work which is when I spied the state of the fitter. Needless to say he was removed from the job and never been back since. Sloppy attitude towards appearance = sloppy attitude towards work
