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

[GoneGuy]

Just tiled a kitchen splash back in a 1 year old house built by a popular company.
Well I was looking at the tiled floor and spotted that previous tiler has left spacers in the floor and tried grouting over them??
Must have been on price work

 

[Tile Shop]

Just tiled a kitchen splash back in a 1 year old house built by a popular company.
Well I was looking at the tiled floor and spotted that previous tiler has left spacers in the floor and tried grouting over them??
Must have been on price work

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de spacer say "peek'a'boo"

 

[GoneGuy]

de spacer say "peek'a'boo"

First I thought it was a bit of rubbish then as I looked there was 4-5 of them and that was just in the kitchen area, not including some chipped tiles and my pet hate cutting around door frames ( couldn't sneak any more photos )

 

[Time's Ran Out]

When I saw the brick slips I thought WTF! Then yesterday they painted them so perhaps that's the look they were after.
So I looked at 2 of the 3 bathrooms they've had done and again WTF!
Now this is 2 streets away from the Thames in a £2-3 million semi detached property under refurbishment.
What is our industry coming to!

 

[WetSaw]

Maybe when they've painted over the tiling it won't look so bad as well....

 

[Blunt Tool]

That's bad! I'll never understand the way customers pay thousands for tiles then get the cheapest installer to do it! It's like buying a brand new car and getting Jack from down the road who repaired your mower few years back to maintain it.

 

[WetSaw]

When I first looked at this I thought it was OK...until I noticed the right hand wall.
Nobody on site own a level?

 

[Italy]

stop stop

 

[demi34]

You get for what you pay. The job probably it is done by the builder cheap and .

 

[Time's Ran Out]

You get for what you pay. The job probably it is done by the builder cheap and .

Down here nothing is cheap that's why the client brought his own trusted tradesmen in from Nottingham. Trusted in what? Because it isn't in the building trade that's for sure.
A further point of interest is the back kitchen it's been in over a week and a guy came down from Nottingham to fix a few extra units so it could be templated for Corian!! I'll show the 'kitchen' as it stands today. No roof, no floor, no f...ing clue!