Acceptable tiling or not?

[Michelle M]

I've just got home from work and this is the tiling in my en-suite so far. Is this acceptable or not? I've included 5 photos and I'm having my ensuite tiled throughout with the same tile:theres a photo where the floor meets the walls and the tiles do not line up. Chips in the tiles, Where the window frame there is the silver edging strip used and this is not flush with the tile i.e the tile sticks out and looks raised, a tile which has been cut down the edge which looks like it has a serated edge.

I'd appreciate your views as to whether you'd be happy with this level of work.

Thanks

Michelle

 

[Gazzer]

Nope not acceptable in my eyes.

 

[peteablard]

It's not the worst I've seen on here but it's far from acceptable. Have you spoken to your tiler about it? The chipped tiles can be replaced the and a neat bead of Silicon will sort out picture 1. Do the tiles line up on the opposite wall?

 

[Bubblecraft]

I wouldn't accept it though as said above, it isn't the worst I've seen

 

[Dougs Third Go]

not an acceptable job from a professional sorry to say Michelle

 

[johnryan]

looks like easily fixable problems except for pic 5. is the room out of square? do they line up on the other side? maybe he started at the other wall and found his setting out was wrong. wouldn't think much could be done about that other than taking the floor up and doing it again.

 

[Michelle M]

Hi Pete
Not spoken to the tiler yet as I didn't get home before he had gone. However I shall speak to him tomorrow morning. I just wasn't sure if I was within my rights to complain about it.

Here's a picture of the other side of the room so you can see that the tiles match up on the other side.

How would he go about fixing this now tho?

Thanks

Michelle

 

[Ian]

The only way to fix this issue is to remove the tiles on the wall where the joints don't meet and redo. No other way around it I'm afraid.

 

[Michelle M]

Am I out of order asking them to do this? What about the cost of the tiles? Should I expect them to replace them as they messed up in the first place?

I wouldn't mind but I've paid a lot of money for this. The tiles were from porcelanosa and the fitter is charging me £** sqm.

Thank you everyone for your posts. I appreciate the comments as I know its not just me being fussy now.

Thanks

Michelle

 

[peteablard]

The problem is he's used a full tile against that wall and not checked if the walls are square. That's the only one that is going o be a major headache as the floor would have to come up completely to rectify it.
have you paid for the work yet?

 

[John Benton]

If the tiler had set the room out in the first place then he would have known where all the joints would have been before he had even stuck a tile to the wall or floor. Was the tiler recommended by Porcelanosa Michelle?

 

[johnryan]

as i and a couple of others mentioned before you'd need to take up the floor to fix it, but even then you'd have cuts by the shower and door walls that were out of parallel. i think bri mentioned that strictly speaking the wall tiles that are out of line would have to come off and be redone. do you know if he used tubbed adhesive for the walls. if so it's not suitable for this application, but on the bright side if he did the tiles could be taken off and used again.

 

[Michelle M]

No not paid yet. Its 40sq as well so will be a lot. No the tiler was not recommeded by Porcelanosa. I've had a complete bathroom makerover by Wickes. So they have supplied them.

It's about an inch out as well. The room is perfectly square but he's not measured correctly. To be honest I've had the wall built on the right by him to make this ensuite so if its wasn't square it would be his fault as well. But I've measured the distance from wall to wall both ways and its completely perfect.

Would you not pay for any of the tiling if he refuses to not fix the problem?

Here's a close up:

Thanks

Michelle

 

[Michelle M]

The adhesive is Toppfix part flexible adhesive latex. Well that's the tub i can see in my bedroom apart from the grout bag. Is this good or bad?

 

[Dougs Third Go]

to me it's a classic case of floor should've gone down first, that way whatever deviations are in the walls, ie out of square, could've all been adjusted to suit.