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I know almost nothing about tiling so this is the reason I have turned to this site to ask a few questions.
Before I ask anything I will just give some information, first of all, the tiling is for a bathroom wall and it is done using two types of tiles, large 60x31.6mm tiles with smaller mosaic type tiles (I think around 2.3mm squares). A mock up of the wall design can be seen in the attachments.
The first thing I would like to know is, what level of placement accuracy should I be expecting? This is the first time I have got a professional tiler to put the tiles in, the last time I had the bathroom tiled it was done by a friend of mine who a surgeon but has an interest in DIY. Anyway, so far around half the tiles have been placed and looking at the gaps between each tile is quite worrying, some tiles are placed perfectly with a 3mm gap to the next tile while others seem at a slight tilt with some tiles getting to within 2mm of each other on some sides and 4mm on others, this however, is not the problem, I can see with the large tiles perfect placement can be difficult. The problem arises with the mosaic, with the gap between the bottom of the mosaic and the top of the large tiles ranging from 4mm to 1mm. My issue is that the old tiles done by my non-professional friend were placed with a much more even gap between each tile than currently and this tiler is taking far longer and much more money do it.
My second issue is that the tiles seem to stick out of the wall itself by different amounts, ie rubbing your hand against the wall you feel some tiles sticking out and others going in with the mosaic being especially bad, with the two tile thick mosaic strip almost appearing to be concave and the gap between the strip reduced from the 3mm set by the mesh to around 1.5mm. I even had the plumber install some "tile backerboard" to the wall which is supposed to even the entire wall (which it did) and ensure the tiles would stick.
Sorry for the longish post, I can try and post some pics if you need them (provided I find my camera), also, sorry if this is the wrong type of post for this forum or wrong section.
Before I ask anything I will just give some information, first of all, the tiling is for a bathroom wall and it is done using two types of tiles, large 60x31.6mm tiles with smaller mosaic type tiles (I think around 2.3mm squares). A mock up of the wall design can be seen in the attachments.
The first thing I would like to know is, what level of placement accuracy should I be expecting? This is the first time I have got a professional tiler to put the tiles in, the last time I had the bathroom tiled it was done by a friend of mine who a surgeon but has an interest in DIY. Anyway, so far around half the tiles have been placed and looking at the gaps between each tile is quite worrying, some tiles are placed perfectly with a 3mm gap to the next tile while others seem at a slight tilt with some tiles getting to within 2mm of each other on some sides and 4mm on others, this however, is not the problem, I can see with the large tiles perfect placement can be difficult. The problem arises with the mosaic, with the gap between the bottom of the mosaic and the top of the large tiles ranging from 4mm to 1mm. My issue is that the old tiles done by my non-professional friend were placed with a much more even gap between each tile than currently and this tiler is taking far longer and much more money do it.
My second issue is that the tiles seem to stick out of the wall itself by different amounts, ie rubbing your hand against the wall you feel some tiles sticking out and others going in with the mosaic being especially bad, with the two tile thick mosaic strip almost appearing to be concave and the gap between the strip reduced from the 3mm set by the mesh to around 1.5mm. I even had the plumber install some "tile backerboard" to the wall which is supposed to even the entire wall (which it did) and ensure the tiles would stick.
Sorry for the longish post, I can try and post some pics if you need them (provided I find my camera), also, sorry if this is the wrong type of post for this forum or wrong section.
