Advice needed - removing tiles from backer board after bad job

[AliGage]

I personally don't think hes done a bad job at all.
The small cut to the brick wall isnt ideal, but, in a room thats clearly out of square and such a small space too, the slightest deviation will stand out.

However, consider how you're going to use this room. If the cuts in the doorway were straightened to the door wall then you'd be stood in the shower and the grout lines would look peed looking out of the shower. To which I think would be 100 times worse. Youre not going to walk in to a cloakroom staring right down at your feet are you?

Who built the studwork around the shower?

 

[gmt1981]

Perhaps I'm not explaining it clearly enough, or its just something I'm being fussy about. However, if you stand in the shower the grout lines don't point straight ahead but slightly to the left, with cuts getting smaller on the wall to the left, and cuts getting bigger to the wall on the right.
The small cuts by the brick wall don't bother me as they will be covered by boxing anyway.

How can you tell the walls are out? From a layman's point of view, it looks like the whole lot would have looked straight if he had worked off either the door or brick wall.

The timer admitted himself to that it was out, so whilst I do welcome further discussion does anyone also know how easy it is to remove the old tiles without damaging the backer board?
Many thanks

 

[AliGage]

Maybe I need another coffee and then have another look.

 

[widler]

If you straighten off the brick wall it will look massivly out in the doorway. It looks out both ways if you know what i mean 😉
But if you insist on taking them up, hammer , bolster and hit em .
2 ways they will come up
1 in pieces
2 fully
All depends on how well they are stuck

 

[John Benton]

So what you're saying is when stood in the shower the grout line is not running at 90 degrees to the tray. From what you have said it can only run at either 90 degrees to the tray or parallel with either door wall or back wall, the tiler couldn't make all of those 3 things happen.

 

[Qwerty]

Have you put a square against the tray to see how the tiles run out? As the others say though, something will have to give!

 

[AliGage]

To me it looks at 90° to the shower tray. Difficult to tell really from a picture. But that is what I would of led from. Last thing you'd eant is to be standing in the shower and it running out down the centre of the floor.

 

[Andy Allen]

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Perhaps I'm not explaining it clearly enough, or its just something I'm being fussy about. However, if you stand in the shower the grout lines don't point straight ahead but slightly to the left, with cuts getting smaller on the wall to the left, and cuts getting bigger to the wall on the right.
The small cuts by the brick wall don't bother me as they will be covered by boxing anyway.

How can you tell the walls are out? From a layman's point of view, it looks like the whole lot would have looked straight if he had worked off either the door or brick wall.

The timer admitted himself to that it was out, so whilst I do welcome further discussion does anyone also know how easy it is to remove the old tiles without damaging the backer board?
Many thanks

When you tile a floor you have to square it off of something looking at your photos if he squared off the brick wall it would look out of square in the doorway same on the opposite wall if he squared off the door wall looks to me like he's tried to avrage it out on both walls not worring about the small cut on the brick wall as it's being boxed in......

 

[Old Mod]

The answer to the setting out really is to set it out urself isn't it.
U can see basically how it will look from what's been done.
So if ur tiler is happy to change it for u then surely the resolution to the setting out will be for u to guide the tiler, and show him how u want it set, then there can be no more heartache.
This isn't a smart *** reply, it's just the easiest solution.
You can tell from the responses here that it's a close call, believe me if members thought there was something fundamentally wrong they WILL say!
Well if I was ur tiler, I'd want u to set it out for me!

 

[p4ulo]

Gosh that's a shame cos the tiles look lovely!
I guess its your call at the end of the day, it will be interesting to see if he comes square off the shower tray or the brick wall? I wonder which one would make you happiest?
They might come off the backer board ok, won't know til he starts chipping away!