Laura Ashley tiles changing colour

[mike1979]

Guys and gals I've just had a call from a lady that had ceramic Laura Ashley tiles fitted in her kitchen I haven't gone to take a look yet the jobs only 5 mins away so going later she is worried as the tiler won't go back there so I said I'd come not to criticize the work just to take a look at the tiles any way she says the tiles have changed colour from cream to a pinky sort of colour anyone got ideas as why many thanks

 

[Dave]

Was dispersion adhesive used on fresh skim ?

 

[mike1979]

Good point I shall ask this I I thought I'm my head perhaps he left them out side and they got wet

 

[mike1979]

I've just come back From looking at them and I can't really see a problem she hates them the tiler used norcross tubbed sticky and norcross powdered white grout

 

[Colour Republic]

Has she changed the lighting? i.e changed from halogen to LEDs maybe?

 

[mike1979]

No the tiles were fixed last week apparently the tiler was annoyed with her and told her the choice of tiles was c£&p then left the only thing I noticed is that the walls are very very cold

 

[Alan M]

the wall looks freshly painted.
maybe its a trick of the eye. sometimes putting one colour beside different ones makes them look completely different.

my house and my neighbours hose are painted in exactly the same colours but the surface texture is different. she has dash and ours is napped plaster. you would bet that they are completely different colours

 

[Fliselege]

Reminds me of a job my boss told me about he did years ago. Customer told him what tiles she wanted so he picked them up and did the job. She came home and burst into tears, said they were wrong tiles so he had to take them all down. He went back to tile shop to complain they'd given him wrong tiles. They hadn't, she'd seen them in a display but due to different lighting the colour looked totally different. Can't remember the outcome but I think he got paid in full for tiling, removing and retiling in different tiles.

 

[mike1979]

I think it's the light myself and the texture of the tile surface and like you said the paint as it looks different depending on what angle you look at it

 

[Sean SML Tiling]

Could be that the tub gear is still wet and is changing the colour of the ceramic. Just a thought mike

 

[mike1979]

I dunno it's never happened to me you didn't tile it did u mate :sofahide:

 

[mike1979]

I think it's an illusion now like the others said the paint and the light has made it look different

 

[Sean SML Tiling]

Cheeky sod lol. I don't use tub gear crap stuff.

 

[White Room]

Reflective light...

 

[Handyeire]

Reflective light...

Maybe its the adhesive and funny enough, I was gona start a thread about something similar so thought I'd just hijack this one. You see, I bought a pallet of adhesive that's made in turkey, standard set and its in 2 batch's, c1 & c2, both floor and wall adhesive and C2 can be used for porcelain. C1 is grey and c2 is white. I've used c2 on all bottom row of tiles because its quicker set but wanting to know is it OK to use the grey grout on top tiles if they are a creamy colour face. I've always used white adhesive on light tiles so I'm entering uncharted waters here if I use the grey I have. I'm thinking it should be fine but thought I'd ask here first just in case. As for the creamy tiles, they are the reddish colour back you see in all ceramic tiles.

 

[Sean Kelly]

Same thing that happened to Fliselege's boss happened to me. The lady I was tiling for insisted I take all the tiles back to the shop. Luckily I had not stuck them to the wall. The shop insisted they were the same tiles as she had chosen. Eventually, she was convinced that the lighting in the shop and that the fact the tiles were grouted within the display caused her eyes to believe they were a different colour.
I tiled and grouted the tiles in her kitchen and she was delighted.

It was the grout that made all the difference. and as Alan says the colour of the paint will also fool the eye.

 

[Time's Ran Out]

She obviously didn't go to Specsavers !

 

[Time's Ran Out]

She obviously didn't go to Specsavers !
See she let you charge your phone while you were there.
Loose tiles look the same colour to me.

 

[Time's Ran Out]

If you say Specsavers often enough you get a free pair - apparently.

 

[Martyn Leeds]

water has got in behind the glaze?

happened to me on some cheapo 6x6 ceramics, all same colour when fitting, but then the odd few soaked the water in like a sponge and went darker than the rest

 

[Lee@emctiles]

i cant see what the problem is???

Seems a classic case of customer deciding once done that she ballsed up and chose wrong tiles for her scheme to me......

 

[andyb1]

As above, can't see a problem had, i delivered tiles to a house 5 days before i was due to do the job, when i arrived at 7-30 in the morning she insisted they were different tiles to what she had picked, made me go to the shop with her at 9 to check, same tiles she picked just different lighting in the shop!

 

[mike1979]

I can't really see a problem either any way I've told her fight it out with her tiler and bct I've got to much to do so I'm out !!