Can you grout with tile adhesive?

[Stan001]

snowfrog - document all your conversations you've had to date whilst its fresh in your memory / make a diary of what has been happening plus contact the office of fair trading for advice asap .... The Office of Fair Trading: making markets work well for consumers

 

[Snowfrog]

CR, thanks for the sympathy, I feel like crying for me too.

Stan I don't think the Office of Fair trading will be able to help me. The guy was recommended by an electrician friend, I didn't get him through the yellow pages or the like. He was a good plasterer, but IMO, he's no tiler. I've paid him cash in hand, and I really can't see how I can get recourse. I know the guys name, well first nam, but not where he lives, nor anything else. The way things are looking, I'll just have to get everything sorted by the new tiler when I eventually do my kitchen.

Here are the photos, I hope.

Pictures by DaisysJ91 - Photobucket

 

[Colour Republic]

I'm really sorry Snowfrog but the plastering is anything but good let alone his tiling, in the few pictures I can see his plastering it looks awful, I'm sorry to be add insult to injury but once the plaster is painted you will see how rough it is. So sorry

 

[Snowfrog]

I want to go to bed, pull the covers over my head and stay there. I'm so fed up. Matters aren't made any easier by the constant battles with my boyfriend. He really does think I am being too fussy now. I think he's just fed up hearing me moan about it, but I can't pretend I'm happy with it, when I'm far from that.

 

[Colour Republic]

I don't often advocate suing a 'trademen' as there is normally two sides to a story but this is really quite bad, enough to have caused damage to the value of your home and I really don't say that lightly. you have spent good money after bad. I want to say something that will cheer you up and tell you it will all be OK but sadly I can't

So sorry to be so blunt and harsh

 

[Colour Republic]

Go to bed ignor my last post

 

[Snowfrog]

So you don't think I am being too fussy?

 

[Stan001]

snowfrog - please don't assume - he is providing a service - he is happily taking your money for that service.
If you dont know his name ask it, ask for a business card, take his van registration number, and take lots of pictures of his work. Get his details from your electrician friend, maybe he can help you? Have you given him an opportunity to refund you for the tiling work only? (if his plastering etc is good). You really need to take professional advice (which is free from OFT or your local CAB). don't procrastinate.

 

[Snowfrog]

Go to bed ignor my last post

At least you made me smile.

 

[DHTiling]

Pics here..

 

[White Room]

Your entitled to be fussy, your paying for work to done to a standard and it certainly has'nt reached that.

 

[Colour Republic]

Pics here..

you beat me to it dave I thought they should be shown in there full glory too

 

[Snowfrog]

Thanks Dave.

Whitebeam, I know I can be too fussy sometimes but I have clear ideas of what I want and I really don't think I am in the wrong here. I've had all sorts of grief tonight because I've said I'm not happy with everything. My boyfriend thinks everything will look fine once it's grouted. I don't think grouting could possibly fix it and if it wasn't for Baghdad today, I would say what I think it needs.

 

[simhopper]

Your entitled to be fussy, your paying for work to done to a standard and it certainly has'nt reached that.

Being fussy does not come into it

The works done is absolute rubbish,Fussy is picking up stepped tile less than 1mm

The plastering looks very poor, cuts and grout lines also poor

I would give him the oppurtunity to replace, if he refuses take him to small claims...The quicker people like this are taken out the trade the better

 

[Colour Republic]

Let's get one thing straight, you are being far from fussy!

This is a mess; his plastering is nearly as bad as his tiling. Although I have great sympathy for you I am quickly becoming angry. The chances are you are so down about this whole episode that you will want to get this buried and try to make the best out of a bad situation and in the process this 'tiler' will be allowed to damage somebody else’s property. This is a prime example of what gives our industry a bad name.

You have been recommended this 'Plasterer/tiler' by an electrician, I’m starting to wonder what the electricians work is like now. I know loads of tradesmen in my local area but I can count on one hand the amount of them I would recommend to customers as I know if I recommend someone it's as good as my company endorsing them and me taking the flack for any misgivings they may have. You haven't done anything wrong, most people on here would advise you that if you have one workman you are happy with then get them to recommend somebody for other trades you may have. Our whole industry is supposed to be built on our reputation.

I would love our industry to be monitored and government backed but sadly I know all too well that our government would use it as an excuse for a stealth tax and in the process make such a hash of it that cowboy builders would excel because they would undercut the firms that pay to comply.

I'm getting really mad now...

Snowfrog, PM me your 'plasterer/tiler/muppet's' number so I can let off some steam:mad2: