Is this good or bad tiling

[xxglasglowxx]

Well the trims themselves can’t be, but the job as a whole could be.

I think I am going to get them to put cornice tiles instead of the trims. They have now agreed to lift the floor, lay screed, new UFH and re tile. Still to fight about the shaved vanity!

 

[Tony_C]

Get them to patch the plywood also

 

[xxglasglowxx]

Well the trims themselves can’t be, but the job as a whole could be.
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He hasn’t used a self levelling compound over the cables, this isn’t required as standard but I find to be a better option.

I think it’s a definite requirement for our old/uneven floor.

 

[Boggs]

Get them to patch the plywood also

Aargh! Hadn’t noticed that.

 

[xxglasglowxx]

We have now given them until tmw until we engage solicitors. Has anyone had a successful outcome in a similar situation? Any thoughts/advise appreciated. Thanks.

 

[widler]

The tiling doesn’t look too bad, but his prep is terrible and his finishing could of worked wonders to the eye.
The trims can be sorted by taking all the top course off.
Usually floors we get flat as level sometimes can’t be achieved due to certain factors.
Does it run down to the door, if you level it, especially with EUFH ,could you have a few inch step at the threshold , sometimes a big step looks awful and a few mm gap under a unit looks better.
Your property is probably over a hundred years old, and a level was ‘rack of the eye’ in those days
Saying all that, it’s not a brilliant job

 

[xxglasglowxx]

The tiling doesn’t look too bad, but his prep is terrible and his finishing could of worked wonders to the eye.
The trims can be sorted by taking all the top course off.
Usually floors we get flat as level sometimes can’t be achieved due to certain factors.
Does it run down to the door, if you level it, especially with EUFH ,could you have a few inch step at the threshold , sometimes a big step looks awful and a few mm gap under a unit looks better.
Your property is probably over a hundred years old, and a level was ‘rack of the eye’ in those days
Saying all that, it’s not a brilliant job

Thanks for the message. We are having the family bathroom done at the moment by new fitters. The floor was 16mm out and they have totally levelled it by ripping it all up and basically re-doing it. The walls are also being sorted with plasterboard. Such a thorough job by comparison. We also discovered last night that this has happened....this radiator has been on the walll less than a week.

 

[Dan]

Thanks for the message. We are having the family bathroom done at the moment by new fitters. The floor was 16mm out and they have totally levelled it by ripping it all up and basically re-doing it. The walls are also being sorted with plasterboard. Such a thorough job by comparison. We also discovered last night that this has happened....this radiator has been on the walll less than a week.

To be fair with those pictures, the setting out needed to be better, or the radiator considered during the setting out at least.

The fixing of it has married up with where the tile bevels. There would be no way around that other than to create a wooden fixing perhaps, painted white maybe, to take on the shape of the tile, and then sit flush with the radiator fixing.

Otherwise they're having to stick a flat fixing, onto a V-shaped backing (tile). There is no way on earth they could have gotten around that without adding something to marry the two up properly.

Ooorrr move the tile setting out so that the fixing site in the middle of a tile, and then carefully drill through the tile rather than going for the grout joint.

Not sure if that type of radiator you could have perhaps moved the fixings to where the centre of the tile meets a bar on the towel rail? Perhaps there was some leeway there. Not sure.

A good professional tiler would have gotten around that by way of sorting a better fixing out, moving the tile setting out, or at least fixing a proper plug into the wall and not leaving the weight of the radiator on the tile.

So the choice of your fitter wasn't a good one. IMO.

 

[Steve6690]

It might be my screen, or my old eyes, but has he laid the ufh onto floorboards and then put plywood on top ?

 

[Tony_C]

It might be my screen, or my old eyes, but has he laid the ufh onto floorboards and then put plywood on top ?

I think that's a sheet of cardboard for some kind of protection Steve 🤣

 

[Steve6690]

I need a bigger laptop screen. Or glasses 😂