Acceptable lippage in large format floor tiles

[JMC tiling]

I disagree a couple of those pictures there i no way that grouting is going to hide the degree of lippage .

so you disagree that cheap tiles can be bowed and have poorly shaped, curled edges, that the pictures are not totally clear and that the grouting is poor?

 

[Italy]

There should be no excuse for lippage in this day and age with the use of levelling clips it should be avoided. However if the tiles vary in width by 2mm then they could also be bowed.
The point the OP was making is he asked if a levelling system was being used, was it ok to tile over the cracks, and were the tiles ok to use. All assured replies from his tiler of choice. In the end he chose the ‘tiler’ within his budget but unfortunately it looks as though corners are cut to turn out a below standard job. When getting estimates it’s only fair to try and get like for like and in this case it was outside of budget, so the ‘I’ve done it this way for years’ won the job.
We see it a lot on here and really sometimes you have to ask, why do people pay for this standard of work.
I get a deposit, but balance on completion. The customer only pays when they are happy. Why pay if you don’t like what’s been done!!

The last sentence is a question?
or an exclamation?

 

[Dumbo]

No cheap tiles can be rubbish . You said lippage is hard to judge because of poor grouting . That I disagree with you can clearly see from a couple of the pictures the lippage is bad no matter what the cause.

 

[Shinyshiny054]

They only tiled half the ground floor (thank god) so there are plenty of tiles left to assess for bowing etc. We’ll be doing the other half, will be interesting to see whether or not we do a better job with zero experience and a tile levelling system .

As I said, I don’t know WHY I paid this guy, I never do that, i just wasn’t thinking clearly and was so relieved to be on the Home run to moving out of a single bedroom upstairs and back into our house. It’s cramped with 4!

Another tiler is coming out tomorrow to assess and advise. Will ask him to look at the tiles as you have all suggested all possibilities for such a lax looking job.

 

[Time's Ran Out]

The last sentence is a question?
or an exclamation?

Exclamation!!!!!
Didn’t want to ask a question just exasperated that people pay for poor work!!
You know I love my !!!!

 

[Flintstone]

Whenever I’m going to have a job done or buy something or go somewhere new, i do a bit of homework first to make sure it’s what I want and expect, I wish all customers would do the same, it would save so much of this situation.

 

[Shinyshiny054]

Whenever I’m going to have a job done or buy something or go somewhere new, i do a bit of homework first to make sure it’s what I want and expect, I wish all customers would do the same, it would save so much of this situation.

@Localtiler I wish I had, really but (and I don’t want to XFactor sob story you with this) we’ve been living, four of us, in one room for months, someone offered a chance to escape it at a reasonable price and timescale and we jumped at it.

ANYWAY, the decision was poor but it’s done and paid for and now I need to try and find out the way forward and put this down to momentary stupidity.

 

[Just Rizzle]

have you reported him to trading standards if he says he guarantees his work trading standards are cracking down on rogue traders as its practically theft.

 

[GoneGuy]

They only tiled half the ground floor (thank god) so there are plenty of tiles left to assess for bowing etc. We’ll be doing the other half, will be interesting to see whether or not we do a better job with zero experience and a tile levelling system .

As I said, I don’t know WHY I paid this guy, I never do that, i just wasn’t thinking clearly and was so relieved to be on the Home run to moving out of a single bedroom upstairs and back into our house. It’s cramped with 4!

Another tiler is coming out tomorrow to assess and advise. Will ask him to look at the tiles as you have all suggested all possibilities for such a lax looking job.

Could you post a picture of two tiles face to face to show if there is any bowing of the tiles. Just to help clarify the issues of the tile?

 

[GoneGuy]

Could you post a picture of two tiles face to face to show if there is any bowing of the tiles. Just to help clarify the issues of the tile?

Im not saying the tile is to blame, just to show in pictures the quality of the tiles