B&Q tiles....once again

[devonmark]

:furious3: In the middle of doing a 14m2 bathroom, the customer has supplied the plain white 225x300 tiles, what a fu*&in nightmare...tiles vary in size big time, even out of the same box...if anyone tells me they have got their tiles from B&Q again I shall run faster than an olympain...Mark.

 

[DHTiling]

have used them as well and they are a nightmare to use..but a good grouting job will make them look ok...........

 

[penno]

Used some B and Q tiles last week, looked bloody awful. When finished and grouted though it looked really nice.

 

[stiffcham]

I used B&Q tiles last week, total nightmare the size varied:furious3: made the job a pain in the arse, Never again.

 

[grumpygrouter]

DId a bathroom recently with B&Q tiles - white 150mm square, made by Pilkingtons, they were fine!

Grumpy

 

[tiler-101]

BnQ bargains then cant beat them can you gloss white on a brown biscuit real professional gear Their black polished porcelain is really dark brown from good old China and white is cream colour through that should be interesting.

00ps did I say white sorry how did I get white from cream must ask BnQ how they magic that one

 

[Grace'sDad]

I just quoted for a job - the customer had a single 600x600 polished porcelain floor tile from B&Q and two sides were 599mm, the other two were 600.5mm. I explained the problems this would cause and "suggested" they buy something a little better from a good tile retailer. Their response was "yeah, but these are really cheap!"
- any wonder why?:mad2:

 

[tiler-101]

They are throughout the group I think at 11 quid a meter. remember to seal them and I personally wouldnt trust a grey adhesive with the white ones. In fact take a day off let someone else have the head ache

 

[grumpygrouter]

I just quoted for a job - the customer had a single 600x600 polished porcelain floor tile from B&Q and two sides were 599mm, the other two were 600.5mm. I explained the problems this would cause and "suggested" they buy something a little better from a good tile retailer. Their response was "yeah, but these are really cheap!"
- any wonder why?:mad2:

Don't think those tolerances are too bad actually, way better than some Turkish porcelain tiles I fixed that a customer obtained form Topps in the summer. (Sorry Gaz, they were really crap!)

If the tiles measure roughly the same on two side just make sure you fit them all the same way up. Sometimes there is an arrow on the back indicating 1 particular direction.

Grumpy

 

[Jimmy1710]

Done two jobs in recent weeks with plain white B&Q tiles, they were bad, but last week started a job using some Turkish tiles from Tile Magic and the difference in size was both ways in some cases was almost 3 mm!!

 

[tiler-101]

DId a bathroom recently with B&Q tiles - white 150mm square, made by Pilkingtons, they were fine!

Grumpy

B n Q take a lot of their ceramic and their stone from Pilks, johnsons also in the mix. Its the Turkish, Spanish and bulk Chinese stuff they knock out at silly money. You have to realise these guys are part of the Castorama group so can buy stuff for pennies and make huge profits at £4.99 what rubs me up is they buy crap when they could buy ok tiles and still make the profit

 

[JaimeCummings]

Done two jobs in recent weeks with plain white B&Q tiles, they were bad, but last week started a job using some Turkish tiles from Tile Magic and the differen