Victorian Pathway Problem

[One Day]

B&q buckets, b&q plastic trowel. Those alone say he's not a professional. At least he got decent adhesive though.

 

[One Day]

Chris, it's as if you're making excuses on his behalf! It's a terrible mess and there's no excuse if he's being paid for it.

 

[White Room]

What has the design of the house got to do with the path not being flat?
Flat doesn't necessarily mean level, it just means flat!
And what's an even floor got to do with it not being straight?
Whether it's perfectly perpendicular to the property is one thing, but that has nothing to do with it being flat or level.
U'd want a slight fall for drainage, but it can still be flat and straight.
The top half of the image below is an extension, joining the garage to the main house.
But it's not in line with the main building, it's twisted. I separated the two with that oblong detail in the middle, so that it all appears in line.
But both halves are still straight, just not with each other 😀
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That's classy and clever🙂

 

[Chris101]

Its a costly nightmare that I do not want to wake up from...

What choices am I left with now?
I have paid him half (£700) in the first week of the job as per his invoice.

If I cut my losses and get a new tiler, I potentially will have to purchase new tiles and then pay an experienced tiler to recctify and then relay...

 

[White Room]

Surely from the start alarm bells must have been ringing, will you be happy with what you have ?

 

[Chris101]

They did go off but as he was through a recommendation from the local area facebook page, he had a very professional looking website with plenty of informarion and when he came to give us a quote he was the one who went through the whole process in detail.
Due to this and our lack of knowledge in this area and our busy working schedules, we just blindly trusted him....

 

[White Room]

I'm not sure if it can be done but maybe it can be ground down and made smooth to remove any lipping.

Perhaps another line of enquiry.

 

[Flintstone]

It looks terrible to me, total lack of propper prep, poor set out prep and general lack of ability. I know it's a real pain but I would sack him off and get some one propper in to get it all up and re start a fresh and do a propper job, or forever walk down that wonky path every morning.

 

[Flintstone]

As for people walking on, that's rubbish, that's him trying to find an excuse for it looking like it does. I would have tied up the gate so no one could have walked on it.

 

[ExplodingPudding]

They did go off but as he was through a recommendation from the local area facebook page, he had a very professional looking website with plenty of informarion and when he came to give us a quote he was the one who went through the whole process in detail.
Due to this and our lack of knowledge in this area and our busy working schedules, we just blindly trusted him....

Don't ever trust Facebook recommendations. The chances are he's a popular down the local pub who can spit the s**t but can't fit for s*** as an old man somewhere says. Always go through a previous portfolio or speak to a local tiling shop who deal with traders (Not b&q, wickes and homebase etc) to pick up some business cards.