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Hello,

I would not rush to blame the tiler. Or "tiler".
It depends on what you hired him for. And for how much you made the deal.

Different qualities has different prices and costs.
A good lying of tiles could take the double of time as a regular one. Consequently, must cost the duble.

But if you want to spend X money in a job, the tradesman will adapt at your budget, and might skip important steps, and I don't blame them.


1. Support looks awful. I don't know if you hired the tiler to tile or to take off old tiles and prepare the wall. So, if, for example deal a price of xx pounds by square meters, this price could not include leveling the wall. Even a good tiler could not make a great job on bad support, with bad tiles.

2. Tiles doesn't look to calibrated for me either. The same, you can not level the tiles if there are big differences between tem. You can play with, but not too much, especially if using small spacers ( of 2 mm, as I can appreciate)

So, first of all, you should give as the price that costed you this job, than I want see the opinions of the good tilers that commented here.


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lunty

Once tiles have been stuck to a wall, it's basically tough luck. I work for a tile distributor and have worked for a few in my time and all terms and conditions state that no complaints will be entertained once the tiles have been fixed, pretty much standard practice across the tile industry.

As for the calibration comments. All tiles are manufactured to EN14411 standard. Therefore a 30x60 porcelain is allowed a tolerance of 0.5% across both the length and width. This equates to a 3mm difference across the length and 1.5mm across the width. Not ideal because this allows some of the not so good manufacturers to put all sorts in the boxes.
 

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