Public Thread!: Poor Tiling Workmanship by DIY and Rogue Traders

[Old Mod]

What about now @snackeroo?

 

[snackeroo]

Been having bathroom installed. Have posted some photos of the standard of tiling, where I have notice some problems. Wavy tiles, spacing seems to be different from one tile to another, trim doesn't seem flush and the walls are not flat with tiles bulging.

 

[snackeroo]

What about now @snackeroo?

Still not visible. I hope my workaround will be ok. I just host them and paste the links which show up as images.

 

[snackeroo]

Here are a few with tiles and trim:

 

[snackeroo]

Ahhh ok, maybe there’s a restriction on new members currently.
Unfortunately for you, we’ve just changed forum platforms today and everything is brand new and we’re trying to iron out bugs.
See what I can do.
Bear with me please.

@Dan

I understand. Lovely looking website. I have managed a 'workaround'

 

[Old Mod]

Excellent well done.
Thanks for your patience.

 

[snackeroo]

Did you reply to original email when confirming acc?
Your profile says we’re still awaiting email confirmation.

Unfortunately, I have not recieved a confirmation of account email. I checked 'spam' and that was empty, so did a resend confirmation email, and nothing arrived. Tricky one this .

 

[Boggs]

Been having bathroom installed. Have posted some photos of the standard of tiling, where I have notice some problems. Wavy tiles, spacing seems to be different from one tile to another, trim doesn't seem flush and the walls are not flat with tiles bulging.

It is quite poor to be honest, mainly due to the wrong sized trim being used for the tiles and poor prep work, ie getting the walls flat and level before tiling.
The cutting of tiles into the trim could be neater.
It’s not a total disaster, and could be fairly easily rectified.
Have a chat with your installer, highlight your issues and see what they are willing to do to rectify.

 

[Old Mod]

Unfortunately, I have not recieved a confirmation of account email. I checked 'spam' and that was empty, so did a resend confirmation email, and nothing arrived. Tricky one this .

I’ve changed it to valid manually, see if there are any differences. Maybe you signed up right in middle of change over. We were offline for several hours.

 

[snackeroo]

I’ve changed it to valid manually, see if there are any differences. Maybe you signed up right in middle of change over. We were offline for several hours.

Attach files has appeared. Thanks
I bet it is because I signed up during the change over.

 

[snackeroo]

It is quite poor to be honest, mainly due to the wrong sized trim being used for the tiles and poor prep work, ie getting the walls flat and level before tiling.
The cutting of tiles into the trim could be neater.
It’s not a total disaster, and could be fairly easily rectified.
Have a chat with your installer, highlight your issues and see what they are willing to do to rectify.

Thanks @Boggs - Response from fitter is 'plastering wouldn't of achieved anything in the room apart from extend the job'.
It was in the contract and I had said beforehand that the room was to be plastered. Lo and behold, many tiles are all over the place.

 

[Boggs]

To be honest replastering a room would not get bad walls flat enough for successful tiling.
90% of jobs I complete solid walls are overboarded with plasterboard or tilebacker, the extra time taken to achieve flat and level walls is easily caught up at the tiling stage.

 

[Andy Rhodes]

Thanks @Boggs - Response from fitter is 'plastering wouldn't of achieved anything in the room apart from extend the job'.
It was in the contract and I had said beforehand that the room was to be plastered. Lo and behold, many tiles are all over the place.

sorry but did you say to the fitter that it needed plastering before hand or did the fitter say this to you

 

[snackeroo]

sorry but did you say to the fitter that it needed plastering before hand or did the fitter say this to you

It was written in the contract that walls had to be plastered. Did the ceiling but not the walls. I said it was written in the job spec and forms part of the contract, but he said they did not need doing. He tiled over part blown skim, skim which was not blown and old adhesive. Sprayed with bonding first.

 

[Dumbo]

Don't know if it's been said but you can't tile on bonding

 

[snackeroo]

Don't know if it's been said but you can't tile on bonding

He actually told me that the tiles would not bond as good on new plaster, so better without. Strange one, that. Yet he goes ahead and tiles on plaster. (new or old, plaster is the same to me )

 

[snackeroo]

These are photo's of the tiling done onto aquaboard.

 

[Andy Rhodes]

Unfortunately your a victim of the 5 P's poor preparation pi** poor performance.
Have you told him your concerns regarding the workmanship & requested that he rectify them

 

[Tile Shop]

I thought it was the 6 P's?
Proper
Preperation
Prevents
Pi...
Poor
Performance

Could be wrong though. Usually am

 

[Tony_C]

This should be an easy rip out

 

[Tony_C]

Less than half an hour later...

 

[snackeroo]

Unfortunately your a victim of the 5 P's poor preparation pi** poor performance.
Have you told him your concerns regarding the workmanship & requested that he rectify them

He knows Andy. I gave him a test area to redo to see how his work panned out and it was still poor. I could not honestly expect to believe he is capable of fixing the whole room if he cannot fix a small area which needed doing. It was all I could do to see how he handles a small area before I would consider letting him loose on the rest of it. So he is pretty much kicked off. Inspectors will be visiting to see his work and I am sure things will be rectified in the right way.

 

[acaciaguy]

Inspectors? Does the tiler work for a firm?

 

[snackeroo]

Inspectors? Does the tiler work for a firm?

Yes. He is a subbie.

 

[Dumbo]

Yes. He is a subbie.

When the guys come around from the tiling company keep it on point . Dont start saying he was ten minutes late one day or he didnt shave before he cane to work ir he is a messy worker it just dilutes the fact you are not happy with the work . Keep it on the tiling everything else doesn't matter .