Is this job being done correctly - Tile Advice

[Just Rizzle]

prep the walls right then the tiling is the easy bit

 

[Blunt Tool]

When he comes back tell him you have sought professional advice and that he should have checked to see if bath was level and walls were plumb before he started whole tiles from either. Ask if he has put any form of bonding agent on loose old patchy plaster walls before tile adhesive. Also has he even set out to see if there is a nice size cut at ceiling and floor or is it just a lottery to see if he is lucky! Tile grout lines should be nice and even, plumb and level and no tile edge sticking out past another. Adhesive should be applied to walls and tiles coated on the back to compensate for poor existing walls. Tell him to stop, and go and find a reputable tiler preferably one who can give you references of past work, be prepared to pay a little extra to get a professional job!

 

[Martyn Leeds]

Update?

Hope he was sent packing. Melinda Messenger could do a better job..

 

[Spare Tool]

good question i am not to sure at the moment lol awkward...

How'd it go today then @Antony Davies ..sacked him off?

 

[Flintstone]

At least he used decent adhesive but that's where the decency ends. Poor job all round and poor tiles too unfortunately it sounds like a case of you get what you pay for

 

[LM]

No primer or tanking!!! It's wrong before a tile was put on the wall and then there's the attempt of tiling

 

[Ttt1601]

No primer or tanking!!! It's wrong before a tile was put on the wall and then there's the attempt of tiling

Good point Lee, I didn't even notice that as was to preoccupied with horrific tiling

 

[Antony Davies]

Thank you for all your advice the tiler is related to my partner which is what made it so awkward.
I have told him not to go any further and have a real tiler coming tomorrow to look at it.
So hopefully should be all sorted going forward, not without upsetting a few people though unfortunately.

 

[White Room]

Needs must I'm afraid.

 

[Matt Bott]

Hope all goes well and it gets resolved.

 

[widler]

It's very, very poor. Little or no background preparation.
Setting out non-existent. Full tile into a corner, obviously assuming the walls are plumb which they never are. Tiled straight off bath edge.
And that's just the bits we can see.

Shouldnt matter about a full tile in corner, im guessing a shower curtain will be up so tyou won't see it anyway , win win

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Shouldnt matter about a full tile in corner, im guessing a shower curtain will be up so tyou won't see it anyway , win win

What - no settee!

 

[Flintstone]

If he's not upto the job he shouldn't really be taking it on! Does he do tiling for other customers outside the family circle ?

 

[Time's Ran Out]

It's like a lot of posts - the tiler is not a tiler but a friend/family - then the tiles are poor quality and it's the material at fault, no preparation just slap them on, then next it will be, but I've paid him in advance - what action should I take!
Come on people - get real - and check them out first!

 

[Flintstone]

these sort of tiles from diy outlets are often floor tiles sold as wall tiles or vice Versa