Laying Porcelain

[upsetjoe]

Haven't you seen the new reinforced titanium impregnated porc tiles, coated with Teflon so nothing sticks, silly buggers put it on both sides, you try getting one fixed and stay in place :mad2:

EDIT: and it's only TilersForums humour upsetjoe, we''re not having a go mate.

Just tell me where I can get some. :drool5:

 

[Alan.P]

Just tell me where I can get some. :drool5:

I'm fresh out at the mo, as soon as I get some more in stock I'll holla

 

[Deleted member 9966]

Joe,

I'm not a professional tile fixer, and my first big tile job was to lay porcelain tiles over my kitchen floor. I used a cheap and nasty dry cutter and found it, not easy but not difficult or hard either. the tiles were tough to cut but not impossible.

speak to your tiler about your concerns. if the company you have appointed to carry out the works are a fairly long standing organisation, they should surely have the right equipment to cut porcelain tiles.

be bold and ask why the price is now doubling because the tiles you have chosen are not ceramics. there should be relatively little difference between ceramic and porcelain if the tile fixers have experience of fixing both.

also, if you agreed a price up front, then the tiler should either stick to that price or at least come to some kind of compromise as to the increase in price. i suspect he's trying it on. challenge him and don't back down. make sure you get the quality job you want at the price that is sensible for the work carried out. if he puts up a fuss, offer to pay him for the work he's done already and end it there. find a new fixer and move on with your bathrooms.

we're here to help

 

[upsetjoe]

Basically he sacked himself out of the job this morning.

I told him another company came over last night and they would do the job for two tenners a square because even if they are porcelain they are large pannels and easy lo lay and he said he's not going to go under the last quote he gave.

On top of that his mesurements were wrong he told me there where 45 where I calculated 39. He got real ****ed and ask his tiler to recalculate, which he did twice and found out there were only 35!

I would like to thank every one, everything that has been said here matches what happened in the real world except for the titanium coated part and I have a couple a new guys to finish the job on Monday.

Regards. :8:

 

[jay]

like that large panels easy to lay:lol: good luck with new tilers hope it works out:8:

 

[upsetjoe]

Thanks.

Will tell you how it goes with the new guys.

 

[DHTiling]

Maybe a few pics as well....

 

[upsetjoe]

Maybe a few pics as well....

I can see some of you have a fetish for tiles here...:ninja:

 

[Deleted member 9966]

Joe

most of the fixers on here live and breathe tiles.... actually, maybe that's just me

 

[Sean fsy]

ive seen these so called jobs that the one man does everything and beleive me they are shockingingly bad(not all cases but most of them) do the maths, a plumber is about £240 a day (£30 an hour) he is not going to waste time tiling when he can make easier money doing other stuff. as said porcelain can either be very easy to lay or very bad, normally the ones with like a vain going through the tile are a bugger to cut as you have to do every cut on the wet cutter on the other hand some split with the least effort possible. even if i am doing a big job with porcelain i make sure i cover the cost of a new wet blade just incase it wrecks it (about £18)

 

[upsetjoe]

I attached a few pictures, now you go and tell me if it's worth the money and what you think about his job.

 

[DHTiling]

:yikes::yikes::yikes::yikes:

 

[upsetjoe]

Hopefully I stopped him shy of 12 square meters and he has the balls to ask me extra.

 

[mjp770]

all I have to say is " OH MY DEAR LORD":incazzato:

 

[upsetjoe]

Nice website Dave do you have a branch in London.