Advice Please - Is This Tiling Acceptable?

[javeiro]

Currently having a new bathroom installed, and the builder has used subway tiles. I noticed that a few were not even after he put them up, and I though maybe would look better when he grouted. However they still look uneven to me. I would like advice as to weather i am being too fussy. Any advice welcome, thank you. Here are a couple of pics.

 

[Ian]

Crikey there's a few bad tiling threads showing up, this one is bad! That's a terrible bit of tiling. Welcome to the forum by the way.

 

[javeiro]

Thank you for the rely, much appreciated. Might be an obvious question but what makes this bad, or is it just everything about it? The other tiles seem straight but this looks poor to me.

 

[Dan]

Where did you find this tiler?

 

[javeiro]

Where did you find this tiler?

Hi Dan he was recommended by a friend whom he did painting and decorating for.

 

[Alan.P]

Hi and welcome, everything about the job, from the setting out to the fixing and grouting is bad bad bad

 

[Ste-G]

Where did you find this tiler?

Deja vu Dan. Just read the same question on another post. Shame you have to keep asking it.
Javeiro this is poor quality tiling and the setting out is even worse.

 

[javeiro]

Deja vu Dan. Just read the same question on another post. Shame you have to keep asking it.
Javeiro this is poor quality tiling and the setting out is even worse.

 

[javeiro]

I'll put up two more photos just so you can get a better view.

 

[Tianqiang Situ]

few bad tiling threads showing

Currently having a new bathroom installed, and the builder has used subway tiles. I noticed that a few were not even after he put them up, and I though maybe would look better when he grouted. However they still look uneven to me. I would like advice as to weather i am being too fussy. Any advice welcome, thank you. Here are a couple of pics.

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I think your job is even worse than mine, I am sure you are very unhappy now.

 

[ChiversTiling]

To be honest it's not the best, setting out is wrong and and some of the tiles looks like they have dropped here and there that's why grout lines don't look even in some places, it's all about setting out how it's gonna look when finished, in the corners it should wrapped round like it still a full tile

 

[javeiro]

To be honest it's not the best, setting out is wrong and and some of the tiles looks like they have dropped here and there that's why grout lines don't look even in some places, it's all about setting out how it's gonna look when finished, in the corners it should wrapped round like it still a full tile

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Crikey that photo makes mine look appalling ! What should I say to him? Ask him to take it all down ????!!!!

 

[javeiro]

Here's another photo of the other side.

 

[stephenoneill]

Painter decorator. Walk your dog if u like . All i do is tile. Theirs ur problem multitrader.jack of all trades king of nothing

 

[javeiro]

He has just told me that the reason some of the tiles are not straight is because the wall is bent ........

 

[Ste-G]

Crikey that photo makes mine look appalling ! What should I say to him? Ask him to take it all down ????!!!!

That's up to you. But as for the setting out, when you tile brick bond if you centre a wall and just start tiling it's pot luck what cuts you end up with.
In this case if the centre point had been moved over a 1/4 the length of the tile you would have bigger and symmetrical cuts but on alternating rows.

 

[Ste-G]

He has just told me that the reason some of the tiles are not straight is because the wall is bent ........

Why didn't he make the wall straight first then, it's easier to check before hand than after.

 

[javeiro]

Annoys me how poor the finish looks and I'm not knowledgable about the trade or skilled in it, so god knows what you professionals must think. I appreciate the replies.

 

[Dan]

Hi Dan he was recommended by a friend whom he did painting and decorating for.

So you didn't check any references or anything then?

I'd say as a customer you're part to blame.

If people keep employing people who can't tile, they'll keep thinking they can tile and carry on charging for it.

 

[Dan]

Deja vu Dan. Just read the same question on another post. Shame you have to keep asking it.
Javeiro this is poor quality tiling and the setting out is even worse.

Yeah, any my suspicions were correct I think he isn't a tiler.

 

[javeiro]

Thanks for the replies everyone. Confirmed my doubts. Much appreciated. Will learn for next time. Thanks again. Great forum.

 

[On one]

Hi Dan he was recommended by a friend whom he did painting and decorating for.

I've yet to meet a painter or decorator that can tile to a decent standard,but I've seen many that are as good as this one.....not!

 

[javeiro]

Luck

I've yet to meet a painter or decorator that can tile to a decent standard,but I've seen many that are as good as this one.....not!

Luckily I did not pay for this work, I am a concerned relative. Not good!!

 

[StevieBoy]

In answer to the question, no this sort of tiling is not acceptable.

Why oh why do people who are painters, plasterers etc, etc keep thinking they can tile like its a an unskilled profession?

Bad setting out, corners not level etc.

If your not happy with the finish, and I know for a fact that if it was mine I certainly wouldn't be - DONT PAY HIM.

Hopefully then the people who are responsible for this shoddy work will get the message.

It's just a shame, as its costly and stressful I'd imagine for the customer.

 

[javeiro]

In answer to the question, no this sort of tiling is not acceotable.

Why oh why do people who are painters, plasterers etc, etc keep thinking they can tile like its a an unskilled profession?

Bad setting out, corners not level etc.

If your not happy with the finish, and I know for a fact that if it was mine I certainly wouldn't be - DONT PAY HIM.

Hopefully then the people who are responsible for this shoddy work will get the message.

It's just a shame, as its costly and stressful I'd imagine for the customer.

Very true there!!! My dad agreed to have the bathroom done by him as he was recommended by another relative, personally I would have used a dedicated SKILLED tiler, not a painter and decorator. He has just done the floor, Ill put a picture up for you to see. This just keeps getting more hilariously bad !!!! Look at this!!!

 

[javeiro]

Look at this flooring he's done, I'm lost for words. I am not a professional but what do you guys think.

 

[StevieBoy]

Not good.

 

[White Room]

Has the floor been grouted???

 

[javeiro]

Has the floor been grouted???

Not yet , he is coming to do that tomorrow.

 

[White Room]

Don't really know what to comment about the floor