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Bolter

Just completed a floor to ceiling bathroom for a customer. Looks very good, and everyone is pleased 🙂

The floor was already tiled when I arrived yesterday, and looked pretty shonky but its not for me to comment. Customer said to me half way through today "the plumber did my floor, Im not 100% happy with it, but it will have to do" and we both looked at it meaningfully for a second or two.

It was only then that I realised the massive creaking noise when you stand on 2 or more areas of the floor. So I start to investigate, and it seems the plumber has laid 5mm ply, then UFH and then tiled on top. Im guessing he hasnt screwed 150mm centres and the ply is way too thin. I reckon he put a screw in each corner!

Customer kept saying the plumber called his work, the rustic effect. If by rustic, he means fail, then he is right.

It amazes me how they get away with it. I wonder how much a plumber charges for tiling, and more importantly why do people pay if its not right??

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Sounds to me you know the answer already, probably will fail, grout will deffinitely go by what your saying, tiles might or might not. Ask her how much 😀
 
Sounds to me you know the answer already, probably will fail, grout will deffinitely go by what your saying, tiles might or might not. Ask her how much 😀

🙂 it was a rhetorical question but yea Im expecting a call soon to put it right.

Met a plumber the other week who told me how easy my job was. I asked him what he uses to prime his walls with, and he said "what's primer?"

Amazing.
 
🙂 it was a rhetorical question but yea Im expecting a call soon to put it right.

Met a plumber the other week who told me how easy my job was. I asked him what he uses to prime his walls with, and he said "what's primer?"

Amazing.


He's probably gotten away with it by using a tubbed addy that's self priming, lucky sod 😀 whether he knows it or not.
 
🙂 it was a rhetorical question but yea Im expecting a call soon to put it right.

Met a plumber the other week who told me how easy my job was. I asked him what he uses to prime his walls with, and he said "what's primer?"

Amazing.
most plumbers i know say that they will PVA the walls for me:yikes::yikes::yikes:
 
no doubt in my mind, failure:thumbsdown: Plumber called me today to see if I could tile a shower area for him he'd prepped it all with..... yes you've guessed it..PVA!!!
 
Ouch. That doesn't sound like a cheap floor to replace and do correctly. And I can almost guarantee if it's creaking now, it'll not withstand the UFH providing heat. Wonder what adhesive he's used? - Do you know that?
 
Get your own back on the plumbers. Do a short plumbing course and you could then take on plumbing jobs. I've got another 2 small plumbing jobs lined up this week. Bolter, hopefully you will get a call in a few months time to do the floor.
 

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