Public Thread!: Poor Tiling Workmanship by DIY and Rogue Traders - Tile Advice

[Martyn Leeds]

He was tight with his blobs! Least its an easy rip-out for you

 

[Tiler Blackpool]

How thick was the ply.. ? .. and looking at those pics , there appears to be very little fixings :lol:

Well...on the plus side the ply was 15mm and it was actually screwed down at every 300mm so the substrate was fine! I originally priced for taking the tiles and whatever the existing substrate was up and replacing with backerboard but didnt need to in the end.

 

[High Peak Tiling]

View attachment 52369 View attachment 52370 had to lift these up last week. cracked tiles all over the floor. took me 20 mins to pull up 7m2 as they came up so easily.could of flicked them up with my pinky! Floor hadnt been primed prior to tiling and as you can see.......five spotted. EVERY SINGLE ONE!!!!!!!

He must of thought he was plaster boarding

 

[DHTiling]

Well...on the plus side the ply was 15mm and it was actually screwed down at every 300mm so the substrate was fine! I originally priced for taking the tiles and whatever the existing substrate was up and replacing with backerboard but didnt need to in the end.

Gotta love those " 5 spotters..." quite a common breed of person you know

 

[mattle40]

The joiner was still there when I took these (I was pricing for the bathroom, this is the new £12k kitchen) I even tried to humour him when asking what happened in the doorway as the rest wasn't too bad.
He said "I had to fiddle the joints to make it work" I nearly spat my crisps out of my nose!

 

[DHTiling]

Now that is classic :lol:

 

[demi34]

That's good one Dave. chocking mate.

 

[Mr T]

this is why I will always centre doorways even tho this has been handled terribly poor because the tiles are not centre it looks shoddy

 

[Gazzer]

Really ? at the expense of small cuts elsewhere ?
No 2 jobs are the same.

 

[Mr T]

Well you can either center the tile or centre the grout joint cant ya so I would always do it... Unless it causes slithers around the room and being off cant be avoided I just think doorways look 10 times better centred

 

[Gazzer]

What if you have 3 doorways ?

 

[Mr T]

Well if theres 3 doorways you have to sacrifice 2 and centre one... Unless it actually went smoothly enought to centre them all lol

 

[Mr T]

What would you do if theres 3 doors mate?

 

[Gazzer]

What would you do if theres 3 doors mate?

Thats why I say, every job is different.

 

[DHTiling]

Well if theres 3 doorways you have to sacrifice 2 and centre one... Unless it actually went smoothly enought to centre them all lol

Bollox.