Wall and Floor Tiling Advice for Kate the Mate

[Stewart]

Cheers to you too......


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[mikethetile]

hic.................

 

[Sean Kelly]

I'll drink to that Pebbs. There is the 'correct way' of tiling and the 'cheap way'. Sometimes the rogues have silver tongues and sweet talk their victims into parting with their money. Other times the customer does the research and does everything right and they still end up with a rouge tiler or builder or whatever. In business you can get a well paid job because you have 2 or 3 A4 sized pieces of paper that you have copied of the internet. These are called 'CV's' and lots of managers take them on face value. How many customers turn to Yellow pages thinking that whoever advertises their business must be legit. I've been taken in by a locksmith that stated no callout charge and I ended up paying over £200 for a £10 lock! Kate, you have done really well to stand your ground. Tilers Forums has done the tiling industry proud. Cheers Sean

 

[Scott]

From what Kate said it certainly wasnt a pleasant experience with this guy so she did well to to stick up to him. Its all very well being fore armed with the knowledge of how it should be done but to actually do it takes some doing. I think his problem in the main i he was just didnt appreciate how bad the job was. His general attention to detail was poor all over. The bath for example has a centre wall mounted tap, or rather it should have a centre tap, except the bath it aound 15mm off centre. The brick bond on the floor tile was 10mm off bond on every course, unfortuately Kate hadnt noticed that bit..oops.

 

[Kate the mate]

I just want to say thanks to this forum for all your help, and especial thanks to Scottley for coming out of his way to look at my bathroom yesterday and for identifying even more mistakes than I had seen originally! It has taken a long time to renovate our house and I really wanted the bathroom to look fabulous, so my heart sank last week when I saw the quality of the work being done. Without the moral support I received from this forum I don't know if I could have fought my corner so I'm extremely grateful that I came here for advice, and it's heartwarming to know that there are honest and caring tradesmen about. Thanks again everyone.

 

[mikethetile]

your welcome Kate

 

[PRESTIGE]

It comes down to lazyness and or poor skills on the tilers part for not getting an even layout. He probably wanted to save time by only cutting one side. Also looks like he forgot his glasses when he spaced those tiles.
Hope it all gets sorted out for you.

 

[diamondtiling]

Martyn, I know he used 'no more ply' but no idea what he used to stick them down. I only noticed this small strip when I looked at the pictures. The untiled area is where the shower is due to go.

Oh, another thing. He tiled behind the towel rail through the bars!! And the horrible looking things on the tissue on the floor are his used tea bags!

Did he lay that floor? It looks like 6mm ply or maybe its backer boards but its on floorboards which is not good.

 

[Scott]

Its NMP Dom, not very well put down either but Ive suggested we leave the floor. If it fails in the future we can address that then.

 

[Kate the mate]

Update on my bathroom. Spent yesterday using an axel grinder to get all of the remaining adhesive off the tiles. It was a hard old job and thought I would have a long soak in the bath afterwards. It was only then that we noticed that the bath isn't level, it tilts downwards away from wall (and the plug hole) so I had to bale out a pool of water which wouldn't go down the plug hole!