How about this one...part 2

[Rob Z]

Okay guys, if you liked the part 1 in this new series, you're gonna love this one...

Jim called me this morning (Jim was referenced in the part 1) to tell me about a job his guys were starting at a community center and condo complex.

His company bid on all of it, but the GC rejected their bid for some of the stone work as being too high.

So, Jim and his guys got to the job today to start tiling one of the gang showers in the community center, and the big shower they are going to do the walls for has sheets of 3/4" plywood shot to the concrete. The floor drain is recessed below the plywood.

"What's this?" Jim asks. Well, it turns out that the assistant to the Stupidintendant got with the hardwood flooring guy (go figure-hardwood any where near a public bathroom) and decided it would be best this way for the stone in the shower to transition to the hardwood.

Yes, their plan was for the Italian stone setter to set the 6 x6 stone directly over the plywood in the shower.

Well, I'm off to work now, and won't be home until late tonight. I look forward to hearing the comments that this one will generate.

Rob

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[LDavis]

Plywood shot to concrete as a base for a tile shower floor in a gang shower! Gee, what a great idea. So much faster and less labor intensive than sloping/screeding mud. Hey, and if it's "marine" grade plywood you can even say "the water-proofing is built-in!"

I feel my "sarcasm/cynicism" meter approaching critical mass so I'll move on.

[tileprof]

OMG!!!!!.....who ever is doing or running this job better look in section 9300 of specs.

[John Bridge]

What specs?

No shower pan inspection, I presume. Or was it green tagged? :D

[chip]

Off to work at 11:25 AM?

You taking any job app's?

I could use a part time job!!

And I can set 1250 s/f before or after lunch.

When you start off to work at 11:25 AM, what time do you take lunch?

Curious minds want to know!!!!!!!!!!

Art

[JC]

Be awfriad be vweary awfraid.

[kalford]

What a bunch of mental giants!! I want their names Rob....maybe they could design me a new house....NOT! Lost as a damn Easter-egg!! I wouldn't let them syphlitic midgets scrape the mud off my trowels!!

[Rob Z]

Art

For a variety of reasons, my current job dictates a late start and a corresponding late finish. At least I get to beat traffic both ways.

You wouldn't want to work with me, after the luxury life of doing inspections in the Keys and playing golf with tile store execs.

Everyone:

This is our competition, gentlemen. I am going to start raising my rates everytime I hear one of these things. I simultaneously feel bad about the tile industry and am glad because I know that I will stand out from the rest of these motorheads. (and all of you will, as well).

Rob

[Ron]

Keith,
Syphilitic midgets?Beautiful...I'm gonna use that one!

Hey,I had a labourer(16 year old punk or syphilitic miget if you will)clean my trowels one time.The next day there were chunks of Mapei Keralastic(stickiest mortar I know of)all over the top of the trowel and the handle.Know what he says?"Yeah,but you don't use the top,man."....Wasn't my labourer though.He happened to be there on the jobsite leaning on the walls.

[Bud Cline]

Hey Keith? Don't hold back man your among friends, it's ok to say what's really on your mind.

[cx]

Hey, Rob, we all seen your picture already, know what I mean? Of course YOU'RE gonna stand out! Geeez.

Oh, you meant like your tile work. Sorry, dude, I dissunderstood at first. (I speak California too, no?)

[Rob Z]

Yeah, Keith, give 'em both barrels!

[John Bridge]

I'd rest on my laurels, Keith. Syphilitic midgets. It just doesn't get any better than that.

[kalford]

em-errr people git mi dandur up!!

[Bud Cline]

I don't know John, it's been about three years ago I referred to a local tile salesman as a "Mental Dwarf" and the guys still remember it.