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

[Rookery]

How many times have we heard 'I've always done it that way and it's never failed', lots. What these cowboys dont realise is that often the unfortunate homeowner wont have them back in the house and so they dont know the extent of their failings.

 

[DHTiling]

How did they manage to nick the contract, must have been good talkers....but that was it.

Cheap as chips... they used then when i was busy on a job and then it went from there.. so so many calls backs they had, i spent ages putting some jobs right or in a few cases re-tiling them..

 

[John Benton]

I remember doing a job for a lady about 6 or 7 years ago. She'd had a guy in who she got out of the Yellow Pages. Replaced the taps on bath and basin, make and tile a bath panel and tile floor. Sounds easy enough.

First time she used the bath, down came the kitchen ceiling. I got a call as I used to do a bit of work through Bathstore and the customer went there to get the whole bathroom changed.

When I went to look at it, he'd taken the bath out to put the taps on, broken 50% of the tiles above the bath and then just siliconed the broken bits back on. He had tile a bath panel but the reason the ceiling came down was the fact he had not connected the waste back up after having the bath out, and a full bath of water came through.

The floor came up easy enough as he'd tiled directly on to vinyl floor. If the tiles had of been flexible I'd have just rolled it all up. :lol:

When I spoke to the customer she said he had told her 30 years of experience and never been back to a customers in all that time.

 

[stusgsx]

Took these photos a couple of years ago from a plot of 4 new build houses each selling for 1.2 million. This work was done by another "tiler" on site. I had to redo one of the floors he had laid but this room was fine?!

 

[True Tiling]

Crazy expensive. I've come across 2 jobs like this. Bonded tiles with grab adhesive on walls which created a real nightmare to take off. The bond was good, but due to spot-fixing, the damp was really bad. Massive headache to remove!

 

[Dim MiM]

Recently, Our tiler went to a job where the couple were tring to save money by diy. The results were they had used grout as adhesive, adhesive as as grout, the tiles were upside down(patten) it was rather funny and cost quite alot to replaceas they had hand made, hand painted tiles with a set design of a tree. Goes to show, better to pay the pro than have a goe yourself 🙂

 

[Ian]

Went out for a couple of beers last night, there's a new cider bar opened. Very nicely refurbished place, until you get to the toilets, I quite literally laughed out loud!

 

[danmasey]

Sexy tiling.

 

[afright]

I reckon that tiler was having to much cider.
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[Ambercat]

I had that recently, idiot must have run out of adhesive as last 20 tiles were stuck on with white Silicon (all tile on tile). Took a lot of time and effort to get off :incazzato: