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Hi,
I'm new to the forum.
We recently hired a Tiler who I got in touch with through another forum and he has done a poor job.
What happened was we were quoted £*** by one company to do the splash-back in our newly fitted kitchen, I asked on this other forum in tiling section how much it should cost, I was told the quote was on the high side for what it was, the guy offered to come and quote us which he did at £*** (he buys the adhesive+grout) , so he came around few days later and started the job - at first all seemed well, the tiles were flying up and looked OK, I had to tell him watch the oak worktop as he kept getting adhesive on it, he wanted to leave it soaked?!?!? i said NO, it shouldnt be wet or have any compound on it, he said "well i see it as a worktop, there too get used"..!!! - anyway, i heard him wimper in the kitchen so I went in (by this time he finished tiling and was starting grouting) he said that he fell over while outside and hurt his hand? I never heard nothing and nor is there anything outside for him to trip on?, he was just at back door cutting tiles with angle grinder, occasionally going for odd smoke, so im unsure how or where he fell over, i was sitting in silence on laptop so would have probably heard him if he did...anyway he continues and takes ages and by 7pm he says he finished but rushed out of the house before we could investigate , anyway we checked it over and we were sick to our stomachs...
The first thing i noticed was the Silicon seal along worktop was messy, un-even on some parts thick and some parts thin or none existent or curled up - really quite bad... then i noticed a tile kicking out at bottom casting a shadow from the light - then i noticed some tiles werent straight, I noticed that it seemed the tiling went up in middle ever so slightly, the grouting was thick in places and thin in others and had lines and troughs in it, looked a right mess - he's also scratched all 3 of our stainless steel double sockets when grouting STRAIGHT OVER THEM!!! - so we rang him up to tell him we werent happy - he said he come back in few days and sort it all - he came back with his hand bandaged up, i told him to go home until it gets better but he refused and stayed for 3.5 hours and what he done was remove the Silicon and fixed the tile that kicked out at corner, he also re-grouted some but it were no better - he doesn't use any tools too smooth the grout and make it all equal, he just brushes over with a rough pad leaving it un-even and messy looking - another annoying thing was he didnt cover the oak worktop or the new hob and just got grout all over them, he got grout under the hob and in between the switches on the sockets, i was having to gouge it all out with tool and blades, i had to sand and oil the worktop as it was ruined - after me expressing my concern a few days earlier about the worktop he done that? - so he said he couldnt do anymore and had to go home because of his hand, fair enough - he shouldnt of started the repairs with hand in that state and should have gone home at my request, anyway he says he has been to the hospital and has a broken wrist, this means he will be out of action for weeks if not a good month and were left in limbo with a poorly tiled kitchen splashback - im not confident that he can (or will) fix the problems left over, his finish is poor and i think he has problems with his eye sight as he worried about how bright my lights were in kitchen during afternoon cos it was gunna get dark, we had tons of lights under cupboards where tiling is - when he left he said to us "just give it a wipe with dry cloth in morning cos that was the best I could do in that light...without me glasses"!!! then I put two and two together and I think he cant see very well and this (if im right) is affecting his work.
I have some pictures of the Silicon, un-level tiliing and scratched sockets - the grout is hard to get a good picture of close up but you may be able to see it. - if you look at the tiling from left - to - right it looks like it rises in middle and you can see that it does as there is gap between cooker and tiles getting bigger as goes in middle.
We have decided to get trim instead of using Silicon and we would like some advice on remove and replacing tiles and grout - I tiled our bathroom in old house but not done it before then, Iam thinking of cutting my losses now and just replacing a few tiles myself - and also getting a 'proper' tiler in to price up a repair , too make things worse we spent £60 on a blind for the kitchen and just as I put it up I cut my finger and got blood on it - ruined, another £60 wasted...
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I'm new to the forum.
We recently hired a Tiler who I got in touch with through another forum and he has done a poor job.
What happened was we were quoted £*** by one company to do the splash-back in our newly fitted kitchen, I asked on this other forum in tiling section how much it should cost, I was told the quote was on the high side for what it was, the guy offered to come and quote us which he did at £*** (he buys the adhesive+grout) , so he came around few days later and started the job - at first all seemed well, the tiles were flying up and looked OK, I had to tell him watch the oak worktop as he kept getting adhesive on it, he wanted to leave it soaked?!?!? i said NO, it shouldnt be wet or have any compound on it, he said "well i see it as a worktop, there too get used"..!!! - anyway, i heard him wimper in the kitchen so I went in (by this time he finished tiling and was starting grouting) he said that he fell over while outside and hurt his hand? I never heard nothing and nor is there anything outside for him to trip on?, he was just at back door cutting tiles with angle grinder, occasionally going for odd smoke, so im unsure how or where he fell over, i was sitting in silence on laptop so would have probably heard him if he did...anyway he continues and takes ages and by 7pm he says he finished but rushed out of the house before we could investigate , anyway we checked it over and we were sick to our stomachs...
The first thing i noticed was the Silicon seal along worktop was messy, un-even on some parts thick and some parts thin or none existent or curled up - really quite bad... then i noticed a tile kicking out at bottom casting a shadow from the light - then i noticed some tiles werent straight, I noticed that it seemed the tiling went up in middle ever so slightly, the grouting was thick in places and thin in others and had lines and troughs in it, looked a right mess - he's also scratched all 3 of our stainless steel double sockets when grouting STRAIGHT OVER THEM!!! - so we rang him up to tell him we werent happy - he said he come back in few days and sort it all - he came back with his hand bandaged up, i told him to go home until it gets better but he refused and stayed for 3.5 hours and what he done was remove the Silicon and fixed the tile that kicked out at corner, he also re-grouted some but it were no better - he doesn't use any tools too smooth the grout and make it all equal, he just brushes over with a rough pad leaving it un-even and messy looking - another annoying thing was he didnt cover the oak worktop or the new hob and just got grout all over them, he got grout under the hob and in between the switches on the sockets, i was having to gouge it all out with tool and blades, i had to sand and oil the worktop as it was ruined - after me expressing my concern a few days earlier about the worktop he done that? - so he said he couldnt do anymore and had to go home because of his hand, fair enough - he shouldnt of started the repairs with hand in that state and should have gone home at my request, anyway he says he has been to the hospital and has a broken wrist, this means he will be out of action for weeks if not a good month and were left in limbo with a poorly tiled kitchen splashback - im not confident that he can (or will) fix the problems left over, his finish is poor and i think he has problems with his eye sight as he worried about how bright my lights were in kitchen during afternoon cos it was gunna get dark, we had tons of lights under cupboards where tiling is - when he left he said to us "just give it a wipe with dry cloth in morning cos that was the best I could do in that light...without me glasses"!!! then I put two and two together and I think he cant see very well and this (if im right) is affecting his work.
I have some pictures of the Silicon, un-level tiliing and scratched sockets - the grout is hard to get a good picture of close up but you may be able to see it. - if you look at the tiling from left - to - right it looks like it rises in middle and you can see that it does as there is gap between cooker and tiles getting bigger as goes in middle.
We have decided to get trim instead of using Silicon and we would like some advice on remove and replacing tiles and grout - I tiled our bathroom in old house but not done it before then, Iam thinking of cutting my losses now and just replacing a few tiles myself - and also getting a 'proper' tiler in to price up a repair , too make things worse we spent £60 on a blind for the kitchen and just as I put it up I cut my finger and got blood on it - ruined, another £60 wasted...
pictures
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