Tiles poorly fitted by "Professional" tiler

[bigdaz]

I'm with Fekin on this. I cant see any problem with so called "jack of all trades" as long as each are done to a high standard by someone with some experience rather than someone who's prepared to 'have a go'

I did 3 years plastering around my full time job and got a lot of recomendations. I'm now going into tiling and will always strive to do a good job. bathroom and kitchen fitting to follow.

as for this case, it seems as if the plumber is not such a good tiler and it might be worth taking a couple of the tiles off to see how they have been bedded as this might not be up to scratch either and you wont find that out for a few months when they start falling off...

 

[m.w.tiling]

I'm a tiler that is just starting to fit bathrooms myself. I find all earlier trades a too willing to take short cuts, saves them five minutes, costs the tiler half a day. Also i find the design of the bathroom should be influenced by the style/size of tile, this gives a far more complete look to the room, nice sized cuts, joints centrered, wall and floor tiles lining up etc. Also alot of plumbers are stuck in the past, they dont like to use newer products, or change theyre ways. I've seen some shocking stuff before, to the point where i couldn't start the job as wring, pipes etc were just plain dangerous.
Always try to see previous jobs and speak to old customers. All my work comes from reccomendations:hurray:

 

[LM Ceramics]

this is going to sound hiper critical( bad spelling) caus i do all aspects of plastering and tiling but i agree with don valley tiling theres loads of plumbers who claim they can tile and simply just cant do it we had our bathroom done about 8 years ago by a plumber we knew he didnt do to bad of job of our tiling (few lips like and a split cut around the window reveal and started a full tile at the end of a wall and the gap got slightly bigger) except from that it were alrite. i noticed its mostly the older plumbers that take on tiling not many of the new plumbers tile now. eventually im going to do a bathroom fitting course and nik plumbers work from them hahha

 

[billy123]

i agree with mw some of us are multi disciplined whch helps you to do the complete job to the highest standard possible.nothig worst than waiting on someone else doing their bit and then having to work round shoddy workmanship.but i take onboard what others say about mixing trades and not being competent in all of them.i wont touch electrics but i use fully qualified leccy when required,you gotta be careful out there guys.

 

[Fekin]

The difference is that to do electrics you are insane to just have a go, well it's a bad idea to just have a go at anything really without being compenent at them.

In the long run though I want to be able to plaster, refir bathrooms then the tile job.

 

[bencurtis]

i refit bathrooms and tile, i got pi$$ed of with getting to jobs and then spending the best part of half a day refiting the bath. i know plumbers that are good at both' but there are so many that just dont care about the finish. i worked in a house this week 85 year old bloke been totaly mugged by a plumber/tiler. one of the worst tiling and plumbing jobs i have ever seen.

 

[Tilestiles]

Dont know how they sleep at night!!!!!!! How can someone rip anyone off let alone someone who is 85!! Makes my blood boil to think what some people will do to others. Cant have any self respect or morals can they. Should ban them from trading thats what I say if they get caught doing stuff like that!!!!!