Brick Slips - should have asked a tiler and not a brickie - Tile Advice

[AlexJones]

Hi All

I got some slips laid at the front of my house and I’m not happy with the job - some of the rows are a bit off, and when I challenged the brickie he said the slips are not cut straight and couldn’t be laid straight so I told him to stop the job. My assumption is despite brick slips being bricks the application is more relevant to a tiler than a brickie.

A few of my friends and family think that I’m getting to fussy about the house renovation I’m doing but I have a hang up about straight lines!! For me they need to be straight and level, and even though the slips I have are sort of rustic and they are not cut perfectly square I would have thought when laying you would need to factor that in with maybe some bespoke spacers.

Can you guys have a look at the pcis and let me know your thoughts and any ideas on corrections. The slips were laid with a rapid set flexi adhesive. If I were to take the slips off do you think the adhesive could be chiselled off cleanly back to a smooth surface of the original bricks so I could start again? Adhesive was laid with a 10mm notched trowel.

Thanks

Alex

 

[Time's Ran Out]

I’m seasick!
Almost as bad as this - saw it on a job last year by a bricky and labourers!

 

[AlexJones]

I don’t understand how people can screw this up? The brickie told me he used to lay them on new builds and was familiar with the process, I told him shouldn’t I get a tiler instead, but he said this would be easy for him (I can see why!).

What’s frustrating is I should have stuck with my instincts and did this myself - tried to save time at my end but has costed me more time

Would knocking the slips off plus hacking off the adhesive be worth it, or do you think I will be left with an uneven surface which would prove to difficult to relay?

 

[Qwerty]

Brickies do everything by eye, maybe by string with a fleeting glance of a level if you're lucky!!!

 

[Flintstone]

Not good. I think you will struggle to clean the all up with a chisel you will probably need to mechanically sand it, grind it

 

[Perry]

I don't think the adhesive would be much of a problem as it should be a solid bed. But the slips you have are quite soft so would be a little work. Yes the top of the slips should level. And he has used spacers so that tells me he doesn't know what he doing. Plus the pictures.

 

[Perry]

View attachment 99395 I’m seasick!
Almost as bad as this - saw it on a job last year by a bricky and labourers!

I hate those lumps of concrete how they are allowed to call them brick slips I will never know.