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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?
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The tiler wants no payment, his decision as I say. I am asking him to put in the remaining tiles round the window and 2 layers on one of walls. I can then get everything plumbed in and usable. I still have the gaps at ceiling and window but my family can at least use the room.
If he is willing to out right at his expense then I am more than happy for this to happen. He has said he does not have the time to do this anymore, He was due to come on thursday to put in remaing tiles and grout on Friday. He has agreed to come back and do this.
How would you guys feel if it was your bathroom? Or if somebody laid floors for you and left a gap leading into 3 walls? Start again I would imagine? In this case he does not have the time to do that so I am simply saying make it good to get the plumbing in and we can use the room.
Do you seriously think I am being unreasonable having waited 3 months and looking at a further 3 months?
The first bathroom has grout missing in corners around the sink vanity unit. The grouting at ceiling level was not good and the plumber actually filled this today with white silicon to try and cover this up. If you want I can post photos of this bathroom too. In addition and I was wrong on the paint bit and may be wrong on this too but he has tiles hard to the ceiling in first bathroom and one wall in second. Somebody did say this should not happen to allow for movement, would this be correct?
I wonder how many of you would be so keen to pay out if the shoe were on the other foot and it was a different trade we were talking about.
As I say he is a really nice guy and I feel bad about this. I know he genuinely feels bad also but it is clear that he is not as experienced as you would expect from a tiler.
The tiler wants no payment, his decision as I say. I am asking him to put in the remaining tiles round the window and 2 layers on one of walls. I can then get everything plumbed in and usable. I still have the gaps at ceiling and window but my family can at least use the room.
If he is willing to out right at his expense then I am more than happy for this to happen. He has said he does not have the time to do this anymore, He was due to come on thursday to put in remaing tiles and grout on Friday. He has agreed to come back and do this.
How would you guys feel if it was your bathroom? Or if somebody laid floors for you and left a gap leading into 3 walls? Start again I would imagine? In this case he does not have the time to do that so I am simply saying make it good to get the plumbing in and we can use the room.
Do you seriously think I am being unreasonable having waited 3 months and looking at a further 3 months?
The first bathroom has grout missing in corners around the sink vanity unit. The grouting at ceiling level was not good and the plumber actually filled this today with white silicon to try and cover this up. If you want I can post photos of this bathroom too. In addition and I was wrong on the paint bit and may be wrong on this too but he has tiles hard to the ceiling in first bathroom and one wall in second. Somebody did say this should not happen to allow for movement, would this be correct?
I wonder how many of you would be so keen to pay out if the shoe were on the other foot and it was a different trade we were talking about.
As I say he is a really nice guy and I feel bad about this. I know he genuinely feels bad also but it is clear that he is not as experienced as you would expect from a tiler.
hey Andy, wasnt suggesting a silly border, a nice one was what I was thinking of!If it was me tony I would of stopped him after the first bathroom if I wasn't happy with the standard of work..but it's done now. and I wouldn't want it bodged up with silly borders.but it's hard to say without seeing the job..
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