Tiler has made mistakes - Advice required

[Martino]

Bang some small coving around the ceiling, remove reveal plasterboard, use hardwall and plaster to bring flush with trim......job done all could be done in 1 day easily!!.....

 

[swanman]

My point is Dave,

You shouldnt keep saying find another career

We all make mistakes in our jobs ,.But we can all learn from them.The tiling hes done looks ok a few setting out proplems but i bet he wont make that mistake again

He will properly become a better tiler because of it THATS MY POINT

 

[Brian the Tile]

to many smart asses on here giving advice out and ill bet half of you have only been on a tiling course,he who has never made a mistake is a liar and has never done nothing,give the lad a chance before you hang him ,i for one get cheesed of with some peoples opinions on here,i have been a tiler for forty years now and fixed one hell of a lot of tiles i can tell you ,i have done a lot of jobs seen a lot of jobs worked just about every where in the country ,worked for some big tiling companys on big big contracts ,done swimming pools and the likes supermarkets,prisons you name it and i can still make the odd mistake,its nothing that cant be made right as bad as it seems,the man should have paid for the first bathroomif he was happy or if not why let him start the second,im sorry but this stinks

 

[afright]

Ive done 42 years likewise.

 

[DHTiling]

Oh it is SO SO easy to sit behind a keyboard and scream the tiler is crap... i said early on in this thread that summit ain't right and i still think it isn't right..

 

[Peter]

Seems like looking for excuses to duck out of payment. If the first bathroom was completed satisfactorily then it should be paid for in full, and anything needed to rectify the second bathroom could be deducted from the price of the job. The guy still has bills to pay and a family to feed, and from the two pictures shown, it doesn't look like an absolute abortion compared to some of the stuff we so on here week in week out.

Would be interesting to see the first bathroom.

 

[AliGage]

It is a little curious that images of the first bathroom have not been posted. But many have asked to see it.

I smell an arguement here and don't really want to get drawn into. But, i understand the opinions. Yes the tiler has a family, bills etc etc. On the flip side i can understand how some people prehaps not as busy as they would like to be can get frustrated seeing work being turned out like this. No it's not a complete abortion, and agreed people make mistakes. I bet most that have read this would mutter to themselves and think they could do better.

Me personally would be looking to re-do or at least make some kind of obvious feature around the window.
I would seriously weigh up tghe financials of re-doing it because although you leave when you've completed. Your work is always left behind.
Sir Ramic came up with the best solution on the ceilling.

It's clearly a setting out error. Not enough to string him up, but a pretty basic error non the less. Im pretty sure the fella won't make the same mistake again though.

 

[glasgow_tiler]

after the first bathroom was tiled and finished and customer was happy with it, i would have asked for payment before the 2nd bathroom was started

 

[dave l and l]

FAIR POINT. however we can only go with what is said in the post, and the customer has said that the tiler was the one that came up with the non payment idea, so in the respect either the customer is lying or the tiler is embarrassed about the quality of his work. if its anything like the latter then i will stand by my opinion.

 

[Spud]

I am going to change careers as I make mistakes ,I cocked up last week on a victorian path and tiled it too far past the customers boundary into the street ,I realised what i had done on and altered it and also knocked £50 off the bill to cover the cost of tiles I had wasted but after reading this thread realise I should not have been paid and need to go and hang my trowels up, are the lock smiths tools still for sale ?

 

[ringw]

remove and start again , get another tiler in and give the bill to him

 

[dave l and l]

i dont think it is down to the mistake that is pictured, as we have all made mistakes it is down to the tiler saying not to pay him and the customer saying he is not happy with the other bathroom either.

 

[DHTiling]

We only have the customers word that the tiler said not to pay.... so don't hang the tiler out to dry.

 

[dave l and l]

hence the reason i mentioned, if the customer is lying,
you can only comment on info given., dont think we are going to see any photos of other bathroom

 

[swanman]

Hes long gone from this post

I think he was a bit slippery