READ THIS it will make you laugh

[opiethetileman]

I went to install 214 sq feet of tile. A kitchen small foyer and a 1/2 bath. The homeowner wanted to pull his own toliet and reset it as well as the pedestal sink. So I get there and the toliet is shattered????? I ask him what did you do?? He said my freind told me to just pop the toliet up off the flange. He tried and it wouldnt budge so he used a pry bar and pryed it up all rite. HE never removed to toliet bolts to the flange.

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[tilesnake]

I would love to watch this guy change the oil on his car! :bonk:

[Davestone]

Yeah,that's funny :p Hey ope you're gonna let him help you, right? :)

[LadyGodiva]

And I thought that I was clueless :D

What a dummy! :yipee:

[Davestone]

I just remembered about a dozen years ago i pulled a toilet and put it out in a hallway next to the bath and the owners 2 year old used it for two days before we realized :) And then we beat him mercilessly :p

[opiethetileman]

Unless I need my pole polished if you get my drift. There was a butt plug the size of a football in the vanity it fell out when i moved the new toliet

[Davestone]

Boy i didn't need that much info,now you've upset my weekend. :D

[dian57]

I hope his wife had a really good sense of humor.

[tileguytodd]

You get all the good jobs Opie :D :D :D

[Unregistered]

when i read that it reminded me of this couple who bought their first home (an 87 yr. old house, totally needed a ton of work) and asked that i do their tile work. they had absolutely no idea of how to do pretty much of anything in home renovations. her dad was a painter by trade. he labelled all the cans and wrote which paint to use in which room. they somehow got that mixed up and painted latex over oil, mistake number one. number two- the guy has never removed a toilet so he asked if i could help take it off then put it back on after i finished tiling. keep in mind that during the whole time i was there they interuppted me a thousand times with a gazillion questions, like do i know a good electrician etc... and i just wanted out of there a.s.a.p. so i re-installed the toilet to keep the peace and told him it's all good. i go back downstairs to finish the last few tiles and he comes running, saying he cracked something. by this time i have had enough of them and told him if he cracked a tile, i'm charging him for replacement. so we go upstairs and he tells me that he felt the toilet was not secure so he gave it one more turn. outcome- he cracked the entire bowl, all the way from the bolt and up. with caulking gun in hand, he asks if he could just caulk the crack. i replied, "sure, go ahead, but the first 200 pound man who sits on that is going to cause you a whole lot more headaches than you have now". so then he says " i guess i have to go buy a new toilet". i reply "that would probably be a good idea". he asks " how much do you think a new toilet would cost at home depot". i thought i was going to lose my mind. last i heard, they split up and sold the house.

[Unregistered]

That's a good story but I have a couple to add:

I'm referred to this guy, an unemployed accountant, who wants a new kitchen floor. All the appliance come off the floor including the dishwasher. I explain to him that I may need to turn off the water main because I may be the first guy in a loooong time to remove the dishwasher and the copper inlet tube may be kinked and the angle stop may be all rusted up. He says he'll help me remove the dishwasher. "I'll be right back, let me go get my tool.", he says. I thought that was odd, he said tool singular, not plural. Anyway, I can hear him rummaging around in the garage for his tool. By the time he gets back to the kitchen I have the dishwasher out and sure enough the copper tube has a pin hole in it and the rusted angle stop feels like it will torque off in my hand. But he wants to show me his tool as I'm trying to get out the door to the water main shutoff.

He follows me out the door, to the curb, and back into the kitchen. Now, I say, let me see your tool. It's a friggin' 3/64ths allen wrench. That was my first clue what this guy was like. I got worse.


Then there was the guy who decided to install his cabinets for a res. remodel. Cheap cabs that came in modules. In the mast bath he had installed three modules and the center section was installed backwards. Yep, face to the wall. I said I wasn't gonna' touch it until it was corrected but he said he'd have to take it all apart to do that so why not just cut new drawer openings into the back of the center cab. Sheesh! The job was completed and I was so gone before he made the correction. Normally, I would have just made the correction myself and proceed as scheduled but my intuition told me this guy would be a problem. A plumber friend later told me the homeowner had purchase all new cabs which were professionally installed which are still covered with a painted rough top as far as I know.