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Bless you Ali, if anything comes up, I'll give you a call ok?
Lynn
Lynn
Well I've put two days in with the builder. Im feeling it now. Just grafted nonstop. Think he was quite impressed and asked me to return to tile the hallway next week.
I want to look at this job a week or so back and posted a question on here to which Dave replied. The 600x600 P Porcelain.
Low and behold i didn't get this at the time. His usual tiler managed to fit him in.
So anyway. I've been doing wood flooring and decorative trimmings. Skirting etc. But i had a chance to look at what the other guy has done and what i need to lead off from.
Any other time i would actually turn this down and walk away. Its a mess. The tiles have a discrete vein running through them which either hasn't been picked up by the tiler or ignored. There is no uniformity in how they have been laid. Its been put straight onto concrete with no priming of the substrate. Totalling around 45 to 50 sqm. No expansion through the four rooms allowed for. 2mm spacing. And a lot of the joints are pi$$ed. :banghead:
I want to look at this job a week or so back and posted a question on here to which Dave replied. The 600x600 P Porcelain.
Low and behold i didn't get this at the time. His usual tiler managed to fit him in.
So anyway. I've been doing wood flooring and decorative trimmings. Skirting etc. But i had a chance to look at what the other guy has done and what i need to lead off from.
Any other time i would actually turn this down and walk away. Its a mess. The tiles have a discrete vein running through them which either hasn't been picked up by the tiler or ignored. There is no uniformity in how they have been laid. Its been put straight onto concrete with no priming of the substrate. Totalling around 45 to 50 sqm. No expansion through the four rooms allowed for. 2mm spacing. And a lot of the joints are pi$$ed. :banghead:
Make sure the builder remembers which bit you did, otherwise when the first 50m has issues you may get a call !!!!
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DHTiling
Ali ... let it be.. do your bit and get paid.. who cares what the other guy does as long as yours is good 🙂.. if it gets picked up , then you might get the work anyway..
Nope don't point them out, but explain to the builder that you will be:-
1) Priming the floor for this reason
2) You will be putting expansion joints in for this reason
He's likely to say that it wasn't done in the first 50m. And you can reply "I noticed that but it should have been done, now it'll only need half of it repairing rather than the whole lot!"
1) Priming the floor for this reason
2) You will be putting expansion joints in for this reason
He's likely to say that it wasn't done in the first 50m. And you can reply "I noticed that but it should have been done, now it'll only need half of it repairing rather than the whole lot!"
True enough. Most of what he's done is covered up. But the kitchen fitters have said it's not pretty. Not that they're tilers, they said they don't touch tiling. But their kitchen fit is top top notch.
I think i'm gonna do what i'm told, make sure the hallway is spot on. Hopefully the difference in mine and his work will be evident and i'll get a builder that pushes regular work my way which is what i need. Might even get the kitchen fitters interested as well. They've already taken a few cards from me after seeing me fitting skirting of all things. But i impressed him by scribbing my corners rather than 45'ing and corking over the gaps.
If a jobs worth doing and all that.
I think i'm gonna do what i'm told, make sure the hallway is spot on. Hopefully the difference in mine and his work will be evident and i'll get a builder that pushes regular work my way which is what i need. Might even get the kitchen fitters interested as well. They've already taken a few cards from me after seeing me fitting skirting of all things. But i impressed him by scribbing my corners rather than 45'ing and corking over the gaps.
If a jobs worth doing and all that.
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Ian
Are you ok for tools now Ali?
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