Not to shabby for a joiner!

[Just Rizzle]

you've got your joints lining up on the floor to wall so why the 50 mm difference from the side walls to the feature wall in pic 2

 

[Russell brown]

Joints wouldn't line up! Annoyed the **** out of me, the darker tiles are about 2mm smaller and the grout line between meant on one tile there was 4mm difference. The customer did want them running through but I had to show him it looked worse. As for the tiles lipping yes there's a couple that lip about 1/2mm but fortunately there's a mirror going there. God knows what happened as I took my time making sure everyone was right and when I went to clean down there was a couple lipping. There's a few things not many I could be picky on but on the whole I'm happy.

 

[Stocks Tiles]

Don't take it to heart mate 🙂 practice makes perfect! Just in some situations some customers will knock you down big time or refuse to pay for it, you've done a nice job just on brick bond keep that level on everything 😉 if it starts to go wrong stop and go back as when you go up it don't get any easier :8:

 

[Russell brown]

Don't take it to heart, and I'm always open to constructive critisism. The customer was originally going to have a big unit above the sink and is now going to have a mirror instead. If they weren't big covered they'd be getting replaced. Just looked at the photo again and they do look worse than they are especially the one next to the sink!. I'm back Tuesday to start another job and do a couple finishing bits in the bathroom, I'll take some pics with packers against them as they really are minimal?.

 

[J Sid]

Russell, I had the same problem a few years back. Turn up on the job with two different coloured tiles, turn out a huge size different.
The lesson I leant was if you are supplying the tile tell your supplier that they must be same size. If customer supplying them, before job starts get them to tell there supplier the same, just as you would tell the to make sure they get all the tiles the same batch.
Wherever they came from the supplier was just getting rid of stock, when they should have ordered them in specially. If the supplier could not do this, go somewhere else.
With regards to lips, using larger tiles with rectified edges on straight or brick bond can make getting that perfect finish hard. I use Raimondi leveling system and tile spacers, worth considering on walls or floors.

 

[Stocks Tiles]

You don't have to take any pics mate, only a little tip that's all :8: long as the customers are happy, with old walls (ripped old tiles off and tiling over crap) makes it hard anyway. Like I say though you've done a really nice job I'm just a lippage hater but you haven't been doing it that long and the pictures probably make it look worse than it is with shadowing.

Monday tomorrow :yikes:

 

[steve-tiler]

Nice work, looks a smart tidy job.

 

[Russell brown]

You don't have to take any pics mate, only a little tip that's all :8: long as the customers are happy, with old walls (ripped old tiles off and tiling over crap) makes it hard anyway. Like I say though you've done a really nice job I'm just a lippage hater but you haven't been doing it that long and the pictures probably make it look worse than it is with shadowing.
Monday tomorrow :yikes:

I've been around the trade 22yrs or so, started off kitchen and bathroom fitting for my old man. Went on my own kitchen fitting and have fitted some really high end stuff and showrooms out for companies. Then went into joinery for most of it but always done jobs on the side doing all sorts from tiling to roof tiling. But recently I've really got into tiling and bathrooms because the tiling industry has moved on loads
, I even went out to Spain a few years ago before the recession to start a business up importing them, and had everything in place but got cold feet in the end

 

[Stocks Tiles]

Must have you confused with someone with a similar name who posted a few months ago who had just started tiling amongst their other trades. Sorry my bad :sofahide:

 

[Russell brown]

Must have you confused with someone with a similar name who posted a few months ago who had just started tiling amongst their other trades. Sorry my bad :sofahide:

To be fair I have been asking a few questions purely because I'd let to get upto date with some of the new stuff being used, this was the first job I've used hardibacker on. I've always tiled onto ply. Plus there's some top people on here where you can learn a good few things from 3-fall being one of them and if it wasn't for him I'd of been stuck on the wet room tray.