Public Thread!: Poor Tiling Workmanship by DIY and Rogue Traders

Old Mod · May 18, 2019

Excellent well done.

Thanks for your patience.

snackeroo · May 19, 2019

3_fall said:
Did you reply to original email when confirming acc?
Your profile says we’re still awaiting email confirmation.

Unfortunately, I have not recieved a confirmation of account email. I checked 'spam' and that was empty, so did a resend confirmation email, and nothing arrived. Tricky one this

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Boggs · May 19, 2019

snackeroo said:
Been having bathroom installed. Have posted some photos of the standard of tiling, where I have notice some problems. Wavy tiles, spacing seems to be different from one tile to another, trim doesn't seem flush and the walls are not flat with tiles bulging.

It is quite poor to be honest, mainly due to the wrong sized trim being used for the tiles and poor prep work, ie getting the walls flat and level before tiling.
The cutting of tiles into the trim could be neater.
It’s not a total disaster, and could be fairly easily rectified.
Have a chat with your installer, highlight your issues and see what they are willing to do to rectify.

Old Mod · May 19, 2019

snackeroo said:
Unfortunately, I have not recieved a confirmation of account email. I checked 'spam' and that was empty, so did a resend confirmation email, and nothing arrived. Tricky one this .

I’ve changed it to valid manually, see if there are any differences. Maybe you signed up right in middle of change over. We were offline for several hours.

snackeroo · May 19, 2019

3_fall said:
I’ve changed it to valid manually, see if there are any differences. Maybe you signed up right in middle of change over. We were offline for several hours.

Attach files has appeared. Thanks

I bet it is because I signed up during the change over.

snackeroo · May 19, 2019

Boggs said:
It is quite poor to be honest, mainly due to the wrong sized trim being used for the tiles and poor prep work, ie getting the walls flat and level before tiling.
The cutting of tiles into the trim could be neater.
It’s not a total disaster, and could be fairly easily rectified.
Have a chat with your installer, highlight your issues and see what they are willing to do to rectify.

Thanks @Boggs - Response from fitter is 'plastering wouldn't of achieved anything in the room apart from extend the job'.
It was in the contract and I had said beforehand that the room was to be plastered. Lo and behold, many tiles are all over the place.

Boggs · May 19, 2019

To be honest replastering a room would not get bad walls flat enough for successful tiling.
90% of jobs I complete solid walls are overboarded with plasterboard or tilebacker, the extra time taken to achieve flat and level walls is easily caught up at the tiling stage.

Andy Rhodes · May 19, 2019

snackeroo said:
Thanks @Boggs - Response from fitter is 'plastering wouldn't of achieved anything in the room apart from extend the job'.
It was in the contract and I had said beforehand that the room was to be plastered. Lo and behold, many tiles are all over the place.

sorry but did you say to the fitter that it needed plastering before hand or did the fitter say this to you

snackeroo · May 19, 2019

Andy Rhodes said:
sorry but did you say to the fitter that it needed plastering before hand or did the fitter say this to you

It was written in the contract that walls had to be plastered. Did the ceiling but not the walls. I said it was written in the job spec and forms part of the contract, but he said they did not need doing. He tiled over part blown skim, skim which was not blown and old adhesive. Sprayed with bonding first.

Dumbo · May 19, 2019

Don't know if it's been said but you can't tile on bonding

snackeroo · May 19, 2019

jcrtiling said:
Don't know if it's been said but you can't tile on bonding

He actually told me that the tiles would not bond as good on new plaster, so better without. Strange one, that. Yet he goes ahead and tiles on plaster. (new or old, plaster is the same to me

)

snackeroo · May 20, 2019

These are photo's of the tiling done onto aquaboard.

Andy Rhodes · May 20, 2019

Unfortunately your a victim of the 5 P's poor preparation pi** poor performance.
Have you told him your concerns regarding the workmanship & requested that he rectify them

Tile Shop · May 20, 2019

I thought it was the 6 P's?
Proper
Preperation
Prevents
Pi...
Poor
Performance

Could be wrong though. Usually am

Tony_C · May 20, 2019

This should be an easy rip out

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