Handmade tiles the latest fashion

[White Room]

A know a man who makes handmade tiles in Bath. He is a journalist at a loose end during the summer. And that's why handmade tiles are so bad.

Probably sells them to friends and family who tell him he's a true craftsman everybody else says he's *****

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Didn't know we were allowed to use that word ( moderators only?).

 

[Taylormade]

Hand made tiles can be a nightmare but designers and architects love them because they are individual and I like them because you can charge more The trick is spend time in the prep and point out the issues in them ie size variation, bowing, thickness, colours etc etc

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Hand made tiles can be a nightmare but designers and architects love them because they are individual and I like them because you can charge more The trick is spend time in the prep and point out the issues in them ie size variation, bowing, thickness, colours etc etc

I agree that you charge for the additional time in getting that 'look' but if you have to point out the issues, then your in trouble. They know what there're after.

 

[White Room]

I agree that you charge for the additional time in getting that 'look' but if you have to point out the issues, then your in trouble. They know what there're after.

But they don't know what's involved to fix there super duper tiles, we want that and they don't listen.

 

[Time's Ran Out]

We just make it all look so easy.

 

[andy8758]

Got a mild dressing down last week. Fixing these concrete encaustic (rustic) tiles from Alegria, in a refurbished restaurant. Foreman had me lasering levels to the millimetre. Everything precise and in line. Designer arrived on Tuesday and complained tiles were too neat.......
"We were looking for a more rustic look. You know, uneven, lipped, out of alignment..."

There is no pleasing some folk.

 

[andy8758]

The work I started this thread with. A little unusual, but beats the standard metro splashback for originality. The picture tiles are both thicker and thinner than the crackle glaze plain blue and white tiles (which are themselves different sizes). The cooker splashback was a bespoke set of tiles.

 

[White Room]

Lovely work Andy.