I agree with Fred trying to match tile is difficult time consuming
and most customer are not willing to pay the price for your time. What you
need to think about is the time spent for tile searching is probably
better put to use networking with the tile companies, fabricators. Retail marble
and tile shops or making cold call on hotel and office building. What the
biggest bang for your dollar or the biggest return on your time.
John E. Freitag
President/Director
The Stone and Tile School
Office 407-567-7652
Cell 407-615-0134
jfreitag@thestoneandtileschool.com
From: Fred Hueston
[mailto:fhueston@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 7:35 AM
To: Restoration and Maintenance
Subject: RE: [sccpartners] Tile research quandry
this is always a problem trying to find an exact match. I
would look at it in a case by case situation..If the job is big enough and you
stand a chance of getting the work it may be worth the time. I have also been
paid to try and find a match. keep in mind that you may never find an exact
match. If the client insist of exact, i would say sorry and walk away.
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Baird Standish <bairdstandish@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
Lately,we have been getting into projects that involve polishing, repair and replacement of tiles. We have, as a consequence, been asked to research and obtain replacement tiles. Sometimes this is easy, sometimes it is like being asked to bring back the wicked witch's broom. We have not been paid to do this research and it is pretty hit or miss. I really do not want to spend a lot of my free time visiting tile stores and perusing the internet for these kinds of thing if the chances are that we will not find an exact replacement. On the other hand, it seems as though some of our competition are very willing to agree to such extra work. In one recent case, the potential client was willing to award a tile installation contract to whoever could match new terra cotta tile 100 year old tiles that had become slick, pitted and darkened. I came up with a decent new tile after a fair amount of research, but the tile is bright, rough an new. I suggested that we darken the new tile and clean/hone (whatever) the old ones in order to match them. Client thinks this not good enough and is holding out for an exact match. This particular example is probably on the extreme side, but all-in-all , these projectss add up to a lot of work on spec. Has anyone had experience with how to handle these situations?
Thanks,
Baird
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