Tilers Forums Hall of Shame....

[mart08]

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A few pics from a job end of last year. Customer rang me and asked if i would come round and take a look as she was not happy with the work that the tiler was doing, he had not finished the job and had already been paid :yikes:. She was in tears while i was there and just wanted to take a hammer to it.

couple of the pics are after i'd taken tiles off and sink removed!

 

[DHTiling]

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Jesus christ... why all the 6x6 whites..??..:yikes:

 

[mart08]

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couple more i found!

 

[mart08]

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He'd added the white tiles to bring it out to the same level as the shower area! The addy on the whites were still wet even after a month:yikes:

 

[richie b]

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:yikes::yikes:shocking, so was around the bath etc tiled with white tiles and he slaped up some more to bring it out to same level insted of taking them off, is what it looks like i might b wrong, in the last pic are tiles on right hand side grouted,

 

[richie b]

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i was too slow posting u answered befor i asked :lol::lol:

 

[mart08]

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The customer had saved up and got an extra loan for the job to be done, only to faced with that mess He had told her so much c**p that i was gob smacked, the list is endless and i would be here all night!!

ok here are a couple,

cutting the heads off the screws and siliconing them into the toilet fixing holes is 'a trick of the trade' :yikes:

the brown chipped floor tiles can be touched up with a felt tip pen:yikes:

 

[jamie B]

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A few pics from a job end of last year. Customer rang me and asked if i would come round and take a look as she was not happy with the work that the tiler was doing, he had not finished the job and had already been paid :yikes:. She was in tears while i was there and just wanted to take a hammer to it.

couple of the pics are after i'd taken tiles off and sink removed!

I looked at the pics and saw the second one first...I didn't think it looked that bad...till I saw the rest!...think I need :smart:

 

[White Room]

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Quality at it's worse:ban:

 

[Scott]

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I looked at the second one, did a double take and then the penny dropped! Nice brickbond!

 

[MTiler]

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Loving this subject, unbelieveable pics posted. Heres mine, with more to follow.
I did a job last year that a builder started and didnt finish, what he had done was crap. He started fixing large glass tiles but couldnt cut them with his grinder as they kept cracking! I fixed the glass tiles and the customer asked me to fix his mess. The floor was p****d and a tiny cut was left running into the hallway that was also supposed to be tiled. He'd left loads of cuts undone and a couple of wall tiles with corners missing!
Apparently he'd not had any complaints before, but the customer said he was a bully. Anyway she's suing him.

missyT

 

[mikethetile]

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:yikes:

what a nightmare, only one way to put that right

 

[MTiler]

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Some stunning mosaic work!

The purple mosaic I re-did, as luckily the customer had enough left, but there were other mosaics in the house that had been done badly but they couldnt afford to get it replaced. Theyd taken the cheapest quote. The plumber called me in to do it as I knew him through another job and he said the bathroom had been reboarded square but for some reason the tilers spirit level mustve been telling them different, hence the gap!

The other pic was from my local chinese takeaway I couldnt believe the mess and took a sneeky pic!

missyT

 

[Scott]

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Is that tubbed addy on the first set of pics MissTiler?

 

[diamondtiling]

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Is that tubbed addy on the first set of pics MissTiler?

Sure is, ditch the tubbed stuff.

:ban::ban:

 

[Scott]

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Blimey, and dabbed! Be that didnt take much pulling off

 

[Bolter]

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Blimey, and dabbed! Be that didnt take much pulling off

And on paint! lol

Had a site agent tell me "why are you scraping the paint from the bath area? The painters only did that the other day!"

I said "because you can't tile onto paint which Ive told you a thousand times. You want the adhesive to bond with the wall, not just stick to it"

And he replied "nah, this paint bonds to the wall. Ive never seen this paint just come off, tile onto it"

So I stuck one tile on the wall, waited an hour, went and got the site agent, and pinged the tile off, paint came clean off, all on the back of the adhesive. :lol: :mad2:

 

[MTiler]

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Not sure if it was tubbed as It was a while ago, but it did come off very easily which was scary and he hadnt taken the paint off the wall.

missyT

 

[Scott]

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Ok so here are my latest nightmare tiles! Ihave had to look at these daily for almost four years!

Thats right they are in my OWN family bathroom. God only knows who tiled it but love the way they started with the full tile without looking at the level of the wall. If you look closely you can see the colour of the suite too (Sun King for those that might remember)

I particlularly like the dot and dab on the ply bath panel. Hence they ell offwhen i took the panel out. Strangely though most of them left a small impression of the outline of Australia in the addy.

 

[White Room]

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Nice:yikes::yikes:

 

[jamie B]

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I'll add to this motley collection with the job I went to today!
The people had a 'tiler' in to re-do the bathroom...recommended by their neighbours..they wanted me re-grout some 'loose' tiles..there literally was nothing holding the floor down, no overboarding straight onto ply with god knows what adhesive (looked like superflex..but was really gritty instead of rubbery) and they came up with my fingers only..the whole floor has to come up as do the walls (dot n dabbed with plasterboard blown in the shower cubicle) the mastic looked like an imbecile had done it..as did all the cuts.
I told them maybe their neighbours don't like them recommending someone who's work was like this!..enjoy!

 

[mikethetile]

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that was no tiler, just another chancer

 

[Rav daniels]

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just done a job and some cowboy, had done the bathroom downsstairs 6 months ago, he was joiner but told her he did tiling aswell,

 

[united]

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Nasty cuts :yikes:

Thanks for sharing. I was on a book keeping course on Thursday and the toilets in the meeting place were shocking, just wish I had taken some photos, they were worse than this :yikes:

 

[Rav daniels]

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must of been bad mate, thats the problem now, cant go anywhere without checking out the tiling,

 

[united]

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It was bad, was done some years ago so that didn't help.

I check the tiling everywhere I go, even walk with my head down in shops checking the floor :lol:

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

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It was bad, was done some years ago so that didn't help.

I check the tiling everywhere I go, even walk with my head down in shops checking the floor :lol:

We are all guilty of that Mark, I have just come off the Queen Victoria. Couldn't help checking out the marble tiling on the floors, mosaic in the pools etc. Sad or what?:yikes:

 

[DHTiling]

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What a ruff arse..

 

[White Room]

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Thats naff:ban:

 

[aph257]

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twenty years ago the missus used to dig me in the ribs for looking at girls 😛rrr: now she does it for me looking at tiles.:drool5: am i getting old?

 

[bradburytiling]

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went a quoted to retile a porch way...its a cracker..well i thought it was so bad i took some photos...