New bathroom install, questionable tiling, advice needed!

[Robbb]

Hi all,

After saving and saving and finally getting our new bathroom installed were not too happy with the finish of the tiling. I’ve signed up here to get some advice.

Is this a poor finish? Looks bad to me and I’d expect better. Am I have expecting too much?

I’d estimate 10 tiles have cuts similar to these (although these are the worst).

Would this be easy to resolve? My fitter subbed the work out to a tiler, so am in contact with him directly but waiting for him to reply.

Cheers
Rob

 

[One Day]

It’s poor!
I’d get him to repay you all the money.
20% left won’t even pay for it all to be stripped out.

He might (possibly) have paid him £15k in which case I'll happily rip out and redo for the twenty percent!

 

[Flintstone]

Very poor job, as you know !

 

[demi34]

Very poor poor

 

[Bathfix Bob]

Tiler rushing to get to another bodge job or doesnt have the skill in the first place. I bet he boasts about how fast he can tile a bathroom.

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Bathroom fitter who contracted to someone who wasn't qualified - that's bad for this customer.

Tiler rushing to get to another bodge job or doesnt have the skill in the first place. I bet he boasts about how fast he can tile a bathroom.

 

[Bond]

Not a great result, (have seen worse) depends on your expectation and what you perseve to be acceptable,at the end of the day. ( some people would be happy with this result ,others not so ).

 

[PaulSmith]

Needs starting again IMHO. Very poor

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Not a great result, (have seen worse) depends on your expectation and what you perseve to be acceptable,at the end of the day. ( some people would be happy with this result ,others not so ).

No one should have to accept this standard of work.

 

[Tommythetiler80]

Wow! It’s crap! Sorry to be blunt but it’s fact.

 

[Dumbo]

I think the op probably gets the idea now do we need to keep rubbing salt

 

[Time's Ran Out]

I think the op probably gets the idea now do we need to keep rubbing salt

It’s not rubbing salt in my view.
Many members are reading this thread and everyone is allowed an opinion.
Perhaps it would be easier to put up a poll asking is it acceptable / or not!

 

[Martyn Leeds]

Its not good, very far from perfection, which is what you should be expecting. But its certainly not the worst we've seen here.
Its the fine details he's struggled with, I'd expect that he's a half-decent site tiler, but lacking that extra bit of attention to detail needed on a higher-spec domestic.

Should really have been spotted before it got to the finishing stages though, as now its a bigger job to replace the dodgy bits

 

[Italy]

some customers, could they accept this job?
who are these customers?
I do not understand,
the usual habit of making clear grouting
with non-calibrated dark tiles,
the mosaic in marble, best to avoid talking.
just seeing the first photos, I have no client
who would accept this work.
and I'm sure.

 

[hmtiling]

Terrible tiling and , what look to be, terrible tiles.
Are they British Ceramic tiles or B&Q or similar?

 

[dynamictiling]

As has been mentioned previously poor tiling. If I was to fix that job I would insist on stripping it out and starting again.

The main contractor you hired is responsible for this, as it was him who sub contracted the tiling out. If he does or doesn't get money from the previous tiler or has paid him is not your problem.


Best of luck with it and I hope you get a good outcome.