Right or wrong ?

[mrct]

I've recently tiled a cloak room. The giant toilet flush and toilet were centre to the room as you look at it. The window has been built off centre and is above the flush and toilet ( which is centre)
in your experience what would you centre.

I centred the flush and the loo.

 

[One Day]

Looks fine to me. I'd have done the same.

 

[cam_low]

when the loo goes in if it was tiled the other way it would look even more out of sync with everything.

 

[Concrete guy]

I just spent about a minute looking at that image wondering why the ceiling was tiled:8:

 

[mrct]

Customer wants the window to be centre and I've explained everything else will run out. Ie flush and loo The window isn't built central and is about 10/15 mil out of square. Dispute been running for five weeks, she won't pay.

 

[White Room]

She's being bloody minded, must be something in the water at the moment.

 

[Chalker]

Looks right to me, your eye would be drawn to the wc and would look wrong if you hadn't.
you could have centred a full tile to the wc, this would have got rid of the two cuts to the
left of the window, but may have worked bad on other walls.
either way, she should pay.
Send letter of intent to say you are taking her to court now, and if she doesn't pay take her to court .
habe used these in the past, they take a small cut , but will get your money.http://www.thomashiggins.com/
act quick and read phil's thread on poor customer!

 

[White Room]

Looks right to me, your eye would be drawn to the wc and would look wrong if you hadn't.
you could have centred a full tile to the wc, this would have got rid of the two cuts to the
left of the window, but may have worked bad on other walls.
either way, she should pay.
Send letter of intent to say you are taking her to court now, and if she doesn't pay take her to court .
habe used these in the past, they take a small cut , but will get your money.http://www.thomashiggins.com/
act quick and read phil's thread on poor customer!

Thats in the Arms Paul....

 

[Chalker]

[/B]Thats in the Arms Paul....

Oops!

 

[Spud]

Looks good to me , did she give you set out drawings or tell you how she wanted the tiles laid out before you started the work ?

 

[mrct]

No drawings. Just said she had a thing for the tiles being centre so with a big silver flush and a loo in the centre of the room I've been taught that's what you centre not a crooked window, reckon if I had the centred the window I'd be getting complaints that the flush and toilet are not centre , it's one of those customers.

Ive ve started court proceedings but thought if I get tilers reactions on here esp as I don't know any if you then it gives me some clout as I really don't think I'm wrong.

 

[One Day]

She hasn't a leg to stand on. You as the professional made a professional judgement.
Take it all the way to small claims and enjoy winning + costs.
Don't get stressed, just stay calm, professional and play the game she wants you to play.

DO NOT re-do it.

moneyclaim.gov.uk

 

[Andy Allen]

I would offer to re/do it first how she wants it. At a cost of cause. maybe offer a small discount. At the end of the day there's no right or wrong way to do the job. But if she wanted it doing a specific way then you should of been informed of that before starting.

 

[m3fitter]

centre the w.c / flush deffo, didn't a full tile to the middle work with cuts either side ? then it would not have mattered, as the window cuts would be not divided

 

[peterwhayward]

The way you have done it is probably the way most of us would have. Its centre to the flush, its centre to the loo and its probably centre to the light(s). that's 3 things centred. if you had centred the window(1) none of the others would have been, which by the sound of it would have given her more to complain about. stick to your guns it looks great.