Floor tiles to skirting detail.....

[merlecollins]

Hi all,

anyone know where I will get a decent detail showing that leaving the skirting off when tiling a floor is the best practice?? British Standards or something like that....

I am about to start a new build house in the next week where we are tiling the entire ground floor (approx. 70m2) and have for the last 3 months stipulated that the builder leave the skirtings off until we have completed the floor tiling

He has now at the last minute went back to the customer and said this is not normal and that he wants an additional £500 to fit the skirtings after the floor tiling:yikes: WHAT A LOAD OF TOSH

The concrete has UFH pipes in, so I have specified that the perimeter moevement joint can be hidden under the skirting also.

Cheers in advance,

MC

 

[basshunter]

The last line of your post is all the reasoning i would need as a client.I guess the builder has a few reasons for this approach (finishing and getting paid and less work being two that spring to mind)

 

[Spud]

It seems very strange that he is acting this way ,was he upset that he was not asked to do the tiling ?

 

[tfs]

perhaps he is worried that he may be asked to sribe the skirting to the floor in the event that your tiles are not 100% flat.

Or

He may just be a chancer!

I cant think of any other reasons

 

[merlecollins]

perhaps he is worried that he may be asked to sribe the skirting to the floor in the event that your tiles are not 100% flat.

Thats exactly what he is citing:mad2:

the tiles are 450x450 and they will be flat......

I've just had an email from the customer saying he has spoken to the builder and that the builder is happy to wait and see how flat our floor is....basically he will go out of his way to create a problem when we are finished so he can say 'I told you so!!'

 

[tfs]

takte it up with the customer mate, its there builder, there cash.

£500 (labour only) is pretty steep for that in my opinion, especialy if he already has the rest of the build to do. Unless there are complex rooms, angles etc this would never take more than 2 days for one decent joiner. (maybe even 1 day mate)

 

[White Room]

Has the builder decorated any areas yet with the skirting on

 

[jay]

i hate to be different but// whats the prob with cutting to skirt leaving room for expansion tiles still need to be cut yes you have to be neater but as whitebeam mentioned if skirt is already down meaning the rest has to be trimed to keep same level why make it harder than it already is just cut tile to suit:dizzy2:



sometimes its better to go with the flow rather than dig your heels in and make waves

 

[hillhead]

a builder that i do a lot for usually leaves the second fix until i'm gone apart from architrives in bathrooms etc. but sometimes when i' delayed and the joiners have to go in they fit the skirtings but DONT drive the nails home so i can take em off again,handy enough.

 

[lucius]

Offer to do the skirting yourself for£300, probably never get any more work of the builder though.
Lucius