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That job I went to see on behalf of another Tiling company already had about 8 tilers on site when I arrived. They were fixing 600x300 ceramic onto plasterboard and 600x300 porcs onto the concrete floors and also onto 18mm WBP. They were having problems with the ply areas, the tiles were not fixing properly and were falling off in many of the apartments. The foreman was blaming the tiles, then the adhesive and finally the PVA........... seeing as he was in charge of level 5 I left him to it and wandered up to have a look at level 6. Shocked would be an understatement, the tiles were all over the place, 10mm gaps in the corners, all corners were grouted. One wall in a shower area would start with a full 600 tile then a 200 cut and its opposite partner wall was centered with 400 cuts.
The trims were all short, there were shadows and drops everywhere. It was disgraceful tiling.
I approached the foreman and asked him about it and when would the snagging be carried out?
His answer was "what snagging, its all fine?" He then said that they had solved the problem of the porcelain and the ply and they would now be using bal white star which has been specifically manufactured for his problem..........:santa_smiley:
No amount of explaining his fast approaching disaster zone seemed to sink in.........he insisted that SBR was watered down PVA and that he was right. 4 days later and all the tiles are still moving, he and all the other lads seemed to think this was fine, "the grout will sort em out" was the standard consensus.
Anyway after posting the job I managed to get Bob (Finlay) and his son James to come down and also Stevie (sgd tiling), Stevie brought big Shep (John Shepard), Jock and Collin with him. We also had Giergi and Serge, (Bulgarian and Russian respectively) and started level 4. It soon became apparent that I had pro fixers on site and it quickly came to the notice of the project manager and his 6 or 7 site engineers.
Level 4 was being tiled far quicker and with a much superior finish to the other levels. We had no lippage, we had close cut tiles in the wet areas, our grout lines were all as per the drawings, in other words we were doing what we do best and it was showing. The drawings for level 7 were quickly presented to me as was level 2 which totals some 100 apartments.
The 'tilers' above us were thinned out and all of them will be off site by next Friday after they have fixed their shoddy work. They all shunned the advice that I tried to give them, they all insisted that 'Mick' knew best and that I was a loud mouthed newcomer. It seems strange then that the "gobby newcomer" and all his forum guys are to finish all the tiling including the 1000 mts of basalt and all the walkways.
This forum works when its used to its best capabilities and it sure has some great people on it. So a big thanks to all that travelled from Preston and Scotland to show off what tiling is about. Urban Splash are duly impressed with what they have seen on level 4 and after a long chat with their project manager I feel I can safely say that the forum members will be bumping into each other again (not you Joe) in the near future.
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The trims were all short, there were shadows and drops everywhere. It was disgraceful tiling.
I approached the foreman and asked him about it and when would the snagging be carried out?
His answer was "what snagging, its all fine?" He then said that they had solved the problem of the porcelain and the ply and they would now be using bal white star which has been specifically manufactured for his problem..........:santa_smiley:
No amount of explaining his fast approaching disaster zone seemed to sink in.........he insisted that SBR was watered down PVA and that he was right. 4 days later and all the tiles are still moving, he and all the other lads seemed to think this was fine, "the grout will sort em out" was the standard consensus.
Anyway after posting the job I managed to get Bob (Finlay) and his son James to come down and also Stevie (sgd tiling), Stevie brought big Shep (John Shepard), Jock and Collin with him. We also had Giergi and Serge, (Bulgarian and Russian respectively) and started level 4. It soon became apparent that I had pro fixers on site and it quickly came to the notice of the project manager and his 6 or 7 site engineers.
Level 4 was being tiled far quicker and with a much superior finish to the other levels. We had no lippage, we had close cut tiles in the wet areas, our grout lines were all as per the drawings, in other words we were doing what we do best and it was showing. The drawings for level 7 were quickly presented to me as was level 2 which totals some 100 apartments.
The 'tilers' above us were thinned out and all of them will be off site by next Friday after they have fixed their shoddy work. They all shunned the advice that I tried to give them, they all insisted that 'Mick' knew best and that I was a loud mouthed newcomer. It seems strange then that the "gobby newcomer" and all his forum guys are to finish all the tiling including the 1000 mts of basalt and all the walkways.
This forum works when its used to its best capabilities and it sure has some great people on it. So a big thanks to all that travelled from Preston and Scotland to show off what tiling is about. Urban Splash are duly impressed with what they have seen on level 4 and after a long chat with their project manager I feel I can safely say that the forum members will be bumping into each other again (not you Joe) in the near future.
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