Advice please, bathroom fitter has dot and dabbed tiles!

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Hi all, I'm hoping you can help with some feedback, please

My parents are currently having a new bathroom installed, all stripped back to bare walls and floor.

The fitter has done/hasn't done some things that I'm 99% sure aren't good practice, but he has convinced my Dad it is fine.

I have only done Able skills basic tiling course, but I was soaking up info like a sponge, so maybe I'm wrong, but so far my research and gut says otherwise.

The biggest issue I have, is that he has dot and dabbed the tiles to the wall. 800x800 porcelain at 8mm thick. His excuse was that the wall wasn't level, which is no excuse really because surely he should have leveled the wall before tiling. I called him out on it, he told my Dad it is perfectly fine.

He then proceeded to dot and dab the tiles onto the new wall that he built, which presumably is flat and level. Although he has done it in ply, which to my understanding isn't a suitable substrate for a shower wall?

There is no tanking on the plywood shower wall or under the bath.

I then came back yesterday to find the bathroom floor is about 16-18mm higher than the hallway carpet floor, which means a massive lip.

To top it off, it looks like the floor has been dot and dabbed too.

Some tiles aren't lined up properly or grout lines are different widths. Not big discrepancies, but considering the size of the tiles and there are only 6 tiles laid, seems a bit pony to me.

I've attached some photos. As I said, I'm a beginner when it comes to tiling, so help/advice would be greatly appreciated.
 

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Not the best practice. Heavy tiles. I personally wouldn't have gone on ply and I think I can see some OSB there as well. Walls look well out and should have been sorted. All in all not great.
What's with the timber at the bottom?
 
Not the best practice. Heavy tiles. I personally wouldn't have gone on ply and I think I can see some OSB there as well. Walls look well out and should have been sorted. All in all not great.
What's with the timber at the bottom?
Thanks for the feedback mate.

I guess he is a tiler by tradesorry supposed to be, as his son is the plumber.
Yeah I only noticed the OSB last night not even flush with the ply, and a load of rubbish chucked behind the walls they built (even though we have a skip)

The timber at the bottom is what he used to set off from.

It's only been a few days and one of the top tiles has popped off the ply already!
 

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Hi all, I'm hoping you can help with some feedback, please

My parents are currently having a new bathroom installed, all stripped back to bare walls and floor.

The fitter has done/hasn't done some things that I'm 99% sure aren't good practice, but he has convinced my Dad it is fine.

I have only done Able skills basic tiling course, but I was soaking up info like a sponge, so maybe I'm wrong, but so far my research and gut says otherwise.

The biggest issue I have, is that he has dot and dabbed the tiles to the wall. 800x800 porcelain at 8mm thick. His excuse was that the wall wasn't level, which is no excuse really because surely he should have leveled the wall before tiling. I called him out on it, he told my Dad it is perfectly fine.

He then proceeded to dot and dab the tiles onto the new wall that he built, which presumably is flat and level. Although he has done it in ply, which to my understanding isn't a suitable substrate for a shower wall?

There is no tanking on the plywood shower wall or under the bath.

I then came back yesterday to find the bathroom floor is about 16-18mm higher than the hallway carpet floor, which means a massive lip.

To top it off, it looks like the floor has been dot and dabbed too.

Some tiles aren't lined up properly or grout lines are different widths. Not big discrepancies, but considering the size of the tiles and there are only 6 tiles laid, seems a bit pony to me.

I've attached some photos. As I said, I'm a beginner when it comes to tiling, so help/advice would be greatly appreciated.
Is defect after defect im afraid , at least is not finished and can be salvaged .
 
Yeah, discussed it all with him, got him to change all the ply to tile backer board and tile with the correct method of adhesive application 👍
Would of gone cement board can get in 6mm and 12mm , or a green plasterboard or tile backer certainly not wood .
Looks like a easy in bath probably would of done the room while leaving the bath in the garage
Your going to have to project manage that job or going to end up with a mess
 

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