Nightmare tile from Topps

[afright]

I have recently done a shower with these tiles they are porcelain 600 x 300 split face lookalike from Topps you cannot give them a joint and its hard to grout them ,I have now got another shower to do but will not be grouting them, the walls are no more ply and primed with SBR you can't use a tile cutter so will have to be wet cut.I am just hoping that they don't catch on

 

[afright]

After reading all this i think i will just walk away if ever i come up against them, too much like hard work for a poor end result by the sounds of it.

Yes I for one will turn down any work that uses these tiles ,when I finished I took one look and thought "awful" the thing is they recommend that you butt them but they are different size's I think they would look better with a 2mm joint.

 

[White Room]

Fitted these a couple of times and once in a shower area. grey tiles and white grout :ban:

 

[Andy Allen]

Yes I for one will turn down any work that uses these tiles ,when I finished I took one look and thought "awful" the thing is they recommend that you butt them but they are different size's I think they would look better with a 2mm joint.

They dont look better with a 2mm joint thats what I did and I grouted them took 4 hours to grout 5m pointing in every joint. And it still look naff I even offered to rip it all down and retile with somthing else f o c but the customer liked them. But I will never use them again.

 

[TJ Smiler]

For me i find it a strain to hit my normal standards if i am using a tile where i know the end result is going to look naff know matter what i do.

 

[lizzardtong]

went today to see customer and tile samples. same tiles told them that is not going to happen. 😀 . so they are doing to find something else.