Help! Tiling trims and finish, - TilersForums.com

[Tony_C]

Coming off the top of the bath there should be a gap of at least 2mm with zero grout in it and sealed up a white silicone, I'd normally colour match but not with black. The grout trapped in there is going to crack and come loose from the bath flexing from stepping in and out. The clear dirty silicone will only get worse. There is no trim where the tiles end, he has just ran a finger of silicone there also. It's seems quite inconsistent but to be honest if he is claiming to be tiler who isn't used to metros that should have raised some suspicion right there as its literally around 50% of my work.

 

[Gemmology]

Ahh so frustrating. My friends bathroom looks amazing I don’t understand it. But she has a free standing bath and grey metro. I’m so disappointed. Thank you for replying.

 

[Tony_C]

This is the last metro bathroom I done, it was tile master dark grey grout and should give you an idea of the sealing on the internals and bath. I tend not to colour match my silicone with dark grouts if it's on white but I talk it over with the customer first. That's just my personal preference.

 

[Wayne Brown]

FM that's a mess it needs stripping off and starting again the plastic trim hides another **** up ! why go so dark on the grout a lighter grey would be alot better look its more like a grout for floor tiles .
That's how it should look like Tony c work above . Kop

 

[acaciaguy]

Not a good job at all. Very sorry you have had to deal with it

 

[Gemmology]

Hi all. Thanks so much again for the replies. He’s coming today to hear my complaints. My only concern is that he won’t have the skill to put it right. He didnt mention a problem with Metro tiles before undertaking the job, it was only after he started that the complaints came in.He has tiled up to the bath and silicon and the connection along with some grout along a little step that we have where the pipes run. He installed the full bathroom including the bath. A friend of mine said he should have put a piece of wood behind the bath panel to stop it pressing in however the way the little shelf meet the bath makes me think even a piece of wood is not going to stop this happening. I have no idea what the solution is and wondered if anyone here has an idea?

 

[widler]

To be honest its rough as a badgers *** , black grout is possibly the worst grout to use on white metros , awful and looks wrong to me, grey or white is my preference.
To be honest only way it would look better was if everytime you went in the bathroom, you blindfolded yourself
Seriously though , its a rip out. Even his bond runs out

 

[Boggs]

I think there are bigger issues here than the bath panel.

 

[Gemmology]

Ok, so he’s said there’s nothing we can do about the trim. That the way the tiles are means that the trim will always stick out at the top and bottom. And that cutting the trim at an angle to make the two sections stick together won’t make a difference (attached photo). Says that the reason he’s put the plastic grossness at the top where the tiles meet the ceiling is because there’s a small gap, about an inch, too small for a line of cut tiles. Says he can take it off and white grout in the gap instead but that’s the only solution. Says it’s our problem for picking metro tiles and dark grout and that he would never comment on a clients choice. I said that a heads up would be have been good and I wouldn’t have chosen the same tiles if he’d mentioned the potential problems. He said he’s only tiled these tiles one before and won’t be doing it again. Also said he would put a bit of silicon behind the bath panel to stop it going backwards (?) I questioned it and said it needed a bit of wood behind to stop it and he disagreed and said he’d sort it. Guess we’ll have to wait and see what it looks like.

He’s going to take the clear silicon off the edge of the bath and do again with white so that’s good news!!

 

[Gemmology]

This is the photo I was supposed to attach above