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Hi all. Thanks so much again for the replies. He’s coming today to hear my complaints. My only concern is that he won’t have the skill to put it right. He didnt mention a problem with Metro tiles before undertaking the job, it was only after he started that the complaints came in.He has tiled up to the bath and silicon and the connection along with some grout along a little step that we have where the pipes run. He installed the full bathroom including the bath. A friend of mine said he should have put a piece of wood behind the bath panel to stop it pressing in however the way the little shelf meet the bath makes me think even a piece of wood is not going to stop this happening. I have no idea what the solution is and wondered if anyone here has an idea?

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To be honest its rough as a badgers *** , black grout is possibly the worst grout to use on white metros , awful and looks wrong to me, grey or white is my preference.
To be honest only way it would look better was if everytime you went in the bathroom, you blindfolded yourself ;)
Seriously though , its a rip out. Even his bond runs out
 
Ok, so he’s said there’s nothing we can do about the trim. That the way the tiles are means that the trim will always stick out at the top and bottom. And that cutting the trim at an angle to make the two sections stick together won’t make a difference (attached photo). Says that the reason he’s put the plastic grossness at the top where the tiles meet the ceiling is because there’s a small gap, about an inch, too small for a line of cut tiles. Says he can take it off and white grout in the gap instead but that’s the only solution. Says it’s our problem for picking metro tiles and dark grout and that he would never comment on a clients choice. I said that a heads up would be have been good and I wouldn’t have chosen the same tiles if he’d mentioned the potential problems. He said he’s only tiled these tiles one before and won’t be doing it again. Also said he would put a bit of silicon behind the bath panel to stop it going backwards (?) I questioned it and said it needed a bit of wood behind to stop it and he disagreed and said he’d sort it. Guess we’ll have to wait and see what it looks like.

He’s going to take the clear silicon off the edge of the bath and do again with white so that’s good news!!
 

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