Say NO!! to Dot & dabbing tiles.

[DHTiling]

If you see your tiler dabbing your tiles then say NO!! .. stop the cowboys..

 

[Stef]

Another reason why I called it quits with my business partner.

Caught him doing this numerous times & I even caught him doing it on a floor!!

I stopped him & lifted half a dozen tiles & asked him what he was playing at..

 

[Sean SML Tiling]

If only there was a way to advertise this info.

 

[bugs183]

I have just been to a job in Putney where the 'tiler' dot and dabbed ungraded slate straight onto chip board, this of course was flexing as it had been nailed now and again.
Weirdly enough the tiles moved, the cleaner mopped the floor, the water got into the chipboard and it moved some...repeat until total failure, and the whole floor has to be replaced now from the joists up!!!
You'll never stop it, everyone thinks porcelain tiles are rock hard and spotting them is fine.

 

[Houston]

No!

 

[Martino]

Some one needs to invent a tile X-RAY to see through the tile!

 

[Turkish tiler]

tta should turn this in to big poster and send it to every shop sell tiles and tiling related materials and put behind counter

 

[Sean SML Tiling]

If only. Did all tilers dot and dab 30 year's ago or was it only idiots that done it?

 

[Kyle87]

I was on a bathroom install and the tiler was a bit of a cowboy. He was dotting and dabbing.
I was assembling the vanity units in another room, I could hear tiles falling off the walls. I thought to myself, if he damages the bath he's paying for it!!!

 

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

There are loads of practices that need stopping ,but there is no laws against these practices so they will just carrie on until there are laws in the future ,

 

[Sean SML Tiling]

Im sure 1 day it will fade out. In fact its better for the pro's if ot don't as om sure they get a lot of work due to bad practice

 

[Kyle87]

There are loads of practices that need stopping ,but there is no laws against these practices so they will just carrie on until there are laws in the future ,

It's the same in the plumbing world. People laying several meters of unclipped plastic pipe and then they wonder why a fitting blows off.

Or people draining down heating systems and not putting inhibitor back in. Eventually rotting the system inside out!!

 

[Mr T]

I pledge!

 

[GoEasy]

I recently told my Bathroom fitter to go away after I caught him Dot and Dabbing Tiles.

I am grateful for forums such as this for creating this awareness.

Attached pics of my bathroom, stopped and got rid on the spot!

Check out the Butting of Tiles.... what a joke. It's the old school mentality, they set in their ways and simply refuse to change.

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Too much of this old school ways and idiots who have always done it!
If someone has fixed tiles for 30 years + and they are still trading then they are not doing everything wrong! How many of you guys will still be here in 3 years let alone 30!
The only issue I have with time served tilers is the desire. Do they still have the interest and passion to produce a top job or have the years of site work, budget tiles and crap substrates taken there toll.

Tiles should be fixed with 100% coverage so it's what you do not what others do that matters.

 

[thompsonbrown]

Some one needs to invent a tile X-RAY to see through the tile!

There is such a machine costs a fortune but only picks up dots or dabs.
Won't work when tiles are fitted using both.
Think its called a "dabdotalator".
Sigma make it

 

[ian158]

is that paint he was tiling on to..looks very flakey.

 

[GoEasy]

is that paint he was tiling on to..looks very flakey.

It is the remains of Mortar on brick wall which appears to have some paint; I thought I removed all the flaky bits, but put my hand on it this morning and bits started flaking off again.

 

[Lee@emctiles]

Just seen this posted on twitter! The caption on the tweet was "Tiles are flying up looking good, porcelain tiles"

 

[Gazzer]

Got asked to do a little extra on a job today. Just a small entrance way. Tile over the tile they said !!! When I swept the rubbish off the tiles I could hear they were hollow. So pulled most up with my fingers and a gentle tap with a hammer got the other 2 that had been spread up..... Level floor tomorrow and then retile.

 

[Gazzer]

Just seen this posted on twitter! The caption on the tweet was "Tiles are flying up looking good, porcelain tiles"

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Thats plumbers for ya :yikes:

 

[ian158]

looks like they never even bothered to sweep the floor prior to laying the adhesive.

 

[Ian]

Had to replace a couple of blown tiles recently, won't be long before the rest go, judging by this pic,

 

[White Room]

Had to replace a couple of blown tiles recently, won't be long before the rest go, judging by this pic,

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Was the walls tiled as well Bri....