08/22/2023
I truly love my job. It’s hard on the body, the mental exhaustion from endless amounts of math and geometry, dealing with customers who are worried that a youngster is remodeling a room in their beloved home and the fact that no job will ever be repeated exactly the same. Each job is it’s own custom piece of art and I absolutely am enthralled that I get to be the man behind the work. This job was special to me because it was for a retired tile installer. Someone who I knew would critique every tile, every cut and every grout joint. This specific floor was installed with ditra heat so his wife wouldn’t have cold feet in the winter and the pattern was her favorite not his (“happy wife happy life” he jokingly says to me as he guaranteed that he wouldn’t be happy with anything less than perfect for his bride of countless years.) It’s typical in the trades for the heat to get passed on down the line. The framers are rough, the drywall guys are messy, the electricians are picky and the plumbers always break my tiles to move the pipes they miss placed…. Leave it to the Tile Guys to make it right, they’re the finish trade after all. The homeowners want perfect, fast, and cheap installation all while the General Contractor wanted me to be done 2 weeks before I started. It’s a good think I like to work under pressure 😂 pressure makes diamonds and diamonds cut tile so Let me reiterate what I stated at the beginning… I truly love my job.
