Wall and Floor Tiling Advice for Kate the Mate

[Kate the mate]

He worked Tues, Weds and Thurs. Though on Thursday afternoon he went AWOL.

 

[Kate the mate]

Your post had me in hysterics, Sean! The slithers of tile looked like Cadbury's fingers! There's no way I would want them on my wall! I've had a nice glass of wine or two and I'm ready for bed and I hope to sleep better than I did last night. Hubby thinks I'm brilliant, but chipping away at the adhesive on those tiles is not something I would want to do again in a hurry. Thanks, everyone, especially Pebbs, who helped me through all this. Night all.

 

[faithhealer]

well done kate, and I thought I had a hard day

 

[Alan.P]

Night Kate, good days work

 

[Scott]

Went to look at this job for Kate today. Most of it has been taken off now and as luck would have it the PVA was mixed so strong it has come away from the plaster with the adhesive. I think its about 2-1 as you can almost peel it off like sunburn!

I will be putting in a price to finish the bathroom completely and hopefully (subject to acceptance) we can bring a happy ending to another poor quality job.

I have some other pics to upload and will do those later on.

 

[jay]

good man Scottley well done

 

[Stewart]

Top man.


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[Alan.P]

Well done Scottley, I thought that the walls looked clean, do TF proud and bring Kate a happy ever after

 

[kilty55]

top man scottley

 

[Pebbs]

Now Im going to chip in, I was totally disqusted by the so called workmanship that Kate was subjected to here. Its no easy job to tell any tiler his work basically is way below par, even little me has the jitters once in a while doing this task. Kate stood her ground and she was well armed, and it turned out ok. How many others on here have we seen where they have paid the so called tiler in full, because of intimidation tatics that these cowboys use? There is a myth that anyone can tile, and its exactly that a myth, Ive got rid of more so called tilers than Ive retained because they think they know what they doing they talk the talk but cant walk the walk. Its been a costly exercise, and a never ending story.
I want to thank this forum for educating people, not just the newbies, but everyone, there is a pool of experience from professionals on here, so tonight Im raising my glasses to you all.

Pebbs

 

[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.