Having a nightmare, A bodge job or am I being picky

[Andy Allen]

jeeezz, makes you wonder how he gets away with it...

 

[Sean SML Tiling]

Or its pictures of other people's work and hes uses them to get work.

 

[White Room]

Or its pictures of other people's work and hes uses them to get work.

Been done before as many would vouch for on here....

 

[SlippySlipster]

Could well be. But you live and learn think he got the idea I roughly (DIY wise) knew what I was on about so scarpered ASAP

You live and learn and its given me the confidence to do it myself like i originally planned to I know I won't **** it up anywhere near as bad as he did. I've made a start on fixing the problem and what I have done so far looks spot on

 

[MTiler]

Those internal corners are bonkers, did he have a Labrador with him by any chance?

 

[SlippySlipster]

No all his own handy work. It's absolutely shocking and he thinks that's ok to do.

 

[Sean SML Tiling]

Might get away with the corner if he used a 20mm bead of silicone

 

[SlippySlipster]

That was my plan on both sides I was going to use a thick bead of silicone as they both only go up to the underneath of my top cabinets. i have sorted the side that was completely out and now the bond wraps correctly and it looks a lot lot better than before bar the large gap. Need to take it to the floor next.

The only bit I may need a bit of advice on is how to do the windows and if I need to put a ledge in or not or if I can just tile into it.

 

[John Benton]

That was my plan on both sides I was going to use a thick bead of silicone as they both only go up to the underneath of my top cabinets. i have sorted the side that was completely out and now the bond wraps correctly and it looks a lot lot better than before bar the large gap. Need to take it to the floor next.

The only bit I may need a bit of advice on is how to do the windows and if I need to put a ledge in or not or if I can just tile into it.

Personally with metro tiles I don't like the sill tiled. I took some tiles out a couple of weeks ago at a customers that had been tiled with metros. Granted it had been tiled badly around window but it looked better with a bull-nosed window board in.



Sorry for neck creaking photo

 

[SlippySlipster]

That looks great, where would the best place to get those from?

 

[John Benton]

The window board was from a local timber merchants 220mm depth 600mm wide, pre-primed MDF and I gave it a couple of coats of acrylic eggshell after fitting it prior to tiling.

Normally comes in 5.4m lengths for about £20 but I know the guys down the timber yard and they just had an off-cut of 3ft so it didn't cost me anything

 

[area tiling]

Poor job all round , i wouldnt pay him a penny! poor striking out , and dot n dab is a no no !! No matter what size of job you do , if its worth doing , then its worth doing right !! but you shouldn't asume he's alright because he's an older chap, wrinkles on your skin don't make you anymore competent !

 

[SlippySlipster]

Hi All,

I'm making great progress with the tiling of my kitchen and am so much happier with the way it looks

A couple of questions though.

I have put in window board and am now wondering how to tile the top of the window reveal how do i follow the bond round etc if someone has a picture of what it should look like it would be much appreciated.

Last question is i purchased a manual tile cutter it was the best sub £70 one i could find that was in stock.

I have been using it fine and it was cutting great but it has now started to leave small aluminium looking marks on the tiles where the breaking bar presses.

And the scoring wheel isn't making the same sound, it's as though it's not scoring the tiles correctly anymore and the cuts look a lot less clean than they did previously any suggestions or is it just take it back and get something like a RUBI pocket 40 or does anyone have any other recommendations.

I already have a wet saw but the manual cutter is a lot faster to use?

Thanks in advance.
Jon

 

[Dan]

Jon,

You shouldn't need to press on the tile cutter too much, it sounds like you've made the scoring wheel blunt. So if it's not scoring properly, you're now needing to push on the snapping bar a littler harder, so that's now leaving marks.

A quick fix for the snapping mechanism is perhaps to put a bit of tape over the ends or something. Or tape some little bits of rubber of some sort to it (doesn't need to look too neat as long as it does the job).

Wheel-wise, you probably need a new wheel. And try not to press too much on it when you're scoring. And don't go over the same score again, once it's scored you should find it'll snap. No need to keep going over it or aggressively run the wheel up and down the tile a load of times.

 

[SlippySlipster]

Good shout on the tape thanks.

I didn't think i was pressing that hard, and i only ever scored it once may have been when i added a little bit of extra pressure when i got to the beveled edge at the end to make sure it scored correctly.

Can you replace the wheel on all tile cutters?

Thanks for the advice.

 

[SlippySlipster]

I can replace the wheel on my cutter i swapped it to one from another cutter i brought that was too flimsy and it works like new again

 

[CJ]

Put duck tape on the breaker arms.......stops the metallic marking.

 

[Dan]

That's what I meant.

 

[SlippySlipster]

Have put the tape on and no more marks spot on again thanks.

 

[SJPurdy]

sometimes a little lubrication on the axle of the scoring wheel helps.

 

[SlippySlipster]

I'm getting there now; I have a question though, I have tiled into the reveal of one of the windows in the kitchen.

If you look at the pictures i have attached, i'm left with a thin cut at the top of the reveal. I'm not sure how to wrap the tile, if it should go to the top (inside) of the window or if it goes above the window or both somehow?

Thanks in advance.

 

[mattster]

all thoose quotes seem too cheap as they say pay peanuts you will get monkeys

 

[SlippySlipster]

I didn't tell them what to quote me and got 3 quotes plus a price from someone on here it's only 8sq meters so hardly an epic for someone that claims to know what they are doing.

It's a bit moot point I've nearly finished the job myself now, but I've heard if you pay with bananas you get a better class of monkey!