Tiler has made mistakes - Advice required

[tonyfaestoney]

Dan, you are correct and I should have looked for references with hindsight and all that. Andy, I detect some cynicism from yourself and others. I am far from happy, in fact I am stressed and hugely diappointed that the hard earned bathroom of my dreams is not perfect. Now you may say it's not too bad but that is in your eyes.

We have been doing up the house since moving in including doing a garage conversion. In this time I have had a pulmeary embolism and am currently off work. All I want now is to have a funtioning bathroom back and the time to think about how best we fix these issues.

So no I am certainly not happy with the "free bathroom" as you call it. I have spent thousands on this and the last piece of the jigsaw is missing.

Either way it is going to cost me a good bit more money to fix the mistakes. Rip it all off and buy new tiles or false ceiling and adjusting the window.

I am trying to be as fair as possible and did not want to go down this route but every sigle tiler on this forum and MSE's forum has agreed it is a botched job. I may be a little cheeky but I don't think so to ask him to put the rest of the tiles in so we can get the plumbing finshed. Would you want to be in this situation for another 3months until I can get a tiler to fix?

 

[Andy Allen]

ok, sorry to be blunt, but this is the way im seeing this...

youv'e had 2 bathrooms tiled by this tiler, one your happy with ,one your not..

so your not paying him anything at all, and your getting him back to finish the bathroom your not happy with, and your going to live with it............ for a while...

right?

 

[Andy Tiler]

Dan, you are correct and I should have looked for references with hindsight and all that. Andy, I detect some cynicism from yourself and others. I am far from happy, in fact I am stressed and hugely diappointed that the hard earned bathroom of my dreams is not perfect. Now you may say it's not too bad but that is in your eyes.

We have been doing up the house since moving in including doing a garage conversion. In this time I have had a pulmeary embolism and am currently off work. All I want now is to have a funtioning bathroom back and the time to think about how best we fix these issues.

So no I am certainly not happy with the "free bathroom" as you call it. I have spent thousands on this and the last piece of the jigsaw is missing.

Either way it is going to cost me a good bit more money to fix the mistakes. Rip it all off and buy new tiles or false ceiling and adjusting the window.

I am trying to be as fair as possible and did not want to go down this route but every sigle tiler on this forum and MSE's forum has agreed it is a botched job. I may be a little cheeky but I don't think so to ask him to put the rest of the tiles in so we can get the plumbing finshed. Would you want to be in this situation for another 3months until I can get a tiler to fix?

I think you are doing the right thing there tony.. 😉

 

[dannyboy1066]

yep sounds dodgy to me too

 

[dannyboy1066]

very very very fishy indeedy

 

[White Room]

Can't believe it would take 3 months to get a tiler.....

 

[charlie1]

Yes this stinks... From my own personal view of the standard of the rulers work, I would say there have been some mistakes but nothing that can't be fixed. Tony, you must realise when you come on a forum with pics of the poorest areas of work you are going to get a negative view but let me tell you, I have seen a lot worse! What we on here dont know is the reality and the facts surrounding this job, we have your version but I bet the tiler would have a different story, if a man has worked for you and your not willing to pay but you want him to finish then imo something not right... Man do work, customer pay... That's how it works, give man chance to fix then pay him

 

[bugs183]

It doesn't sound dodgy at at all.
So long as the other bathroom is paid for in full then why should he have to pay for a bathroom that the 'tiler' has cocked up and now the customer has to rectify it in a manner that he didn't want or shouldn't have had to do.
The only alternative is the tiler rectifies it by ripping the whole lot down, causing untold damage and forking out for new tiles and time. He can't rectify the setting out as it's flawed from the first tile he's placed.
I think if i made a duff job and the customer said well i'm not paying for it, but you pop in do a days work and we'll say no more about it i think he's being kind of reasonable.
Obviously i'd be much happier knowing i'd made a good job, the customer was happy and i'd been paid.

 

[tonyfaestoney]

Ok Andy Allen, firstly the first bathroom is not perfect but acceptable as I like the tiler and felt a little uncomfortable pointing out discrepancies. But with the second one being so obvious it us difficult.

I have to point out when I broached the subject with him today he said he had been thinking about it all weekend and it was he who said he would not be charging for either bathroom.

If I am to fix this properly I will no doubt pay more per hour for a good tiler which will mean time rip all tiles down and paying for new tiles. This I would estimate to come in around the same as this rulers labour for both bathrooms. Is that not fair?

In addition it has been pointed out to me that he should not have fitted to a painted surface. So really both bathrooms should be done again from my understanding.

I understand u are a tiler but do you understand or appreciate the inconvenience which should have been avoided with basic measurements for a professional tiler?

 

[charlie1]

Dan, you are correct and I should have looked for 9references with hindsight and all that. Andy, I detect some cynicism from yourself and others. I am far from happy, in fact I am stressed and hugely diappointed that the hard earned bathroom of my dreams is not perfect. Now you may say it's not too bad but that is in your eyes.

We have been doing up the house since moving in including doing a garage conversion. In this time I have had a pulmeary embolism and am currently off work. All I want now is to have a funtioning bathroom back and the time to think about how best we fix these issues.

So no I am certainly not happy with the "free bathroom" as you call it. I have spent thousands on this and the last piece of the jigsaw is missing.

Either way it is going to cost me a good bit more money to fix the mistakes. Rip it all off and buy new tiles or false ceiling and adjusting the window.

I am trying to be as fair as possible and did not want to go down this route but every sigle tiler on this forum and MSE's forum has agreed it is a botched job. I may be a little cheeky but I don't think so to ask him to put the rest of the tiles in so we can get the plumbing finshed. Would you want to be in this situation for another 3months until I can get a tiler to fix?

Tony, not every tiler on here is saying its a botched job, only the ones who have expressed there opinions, ....do you actually think anyone would come on and say hey I think that looks ok? ...as I have said, I have seen worse!