Accept or reject job?

[One Day]

Builder/Plumber you say?
I don't mean to be rude, I understand your predicament - honestly, we see it every week.
But why don't people choose say a Handyman/hairdresser to do the service on their car?
Or a window cleaner/dogwalker to decorate the lounge?

Builders and plumbers should stick to what they are (allegedly) qualified to do: Bricks and pipes.

 

[WetSaw]

A lovely 15mm border of white grout won't be white for very long. Also, you shouldn't have 3mm grout at the bottom of the wall it should be silicone.
You're not wasting 20m2 of tiles, whoever put them up so poorly has.

 

[Waluigi]

Builder/Plumber you say?
I don't mean to be rude, I understand your predicament - honestly, we see it every week.
But why don't people choose say a Handyman/hairdresser to do the service on their car?
Or a window cleaner/dogwalker to decorate the lounge?

Builders and plumbers should stick to what they are (allegedly) qualified to do: Bricks and pipes.

 

[Blunt Tool]

Bloody multitraders they messed up Brexit as well!

 

[Blunt Tool]

Got an hour window tomorrow morning if anyone needs a cut and blow dry or blue rinse?

 

[Waluigi]

In my defence, tiling is the biggest part of my job.

........and easily the most satisfying.

Besides, Tiling is an actual skill, Plumbing isn’t really.

 

[GoneGuy]

Can you post some pics?
As everyone else has stated, don’t pay for the job

 

[thomashenry]

Builder/Plumber you say?
I don't mean to be rude, I understand your predicament - honestly, we see it every week.
But why don't people choose say a Handyman/hairdresser to do the service on their car?
Or a window cleaner/dogwalker to decorate the lounge?

Builders and plumbers should stick to what they are (allegedly) qualified to do: Bricks and pipes.

Builder/plumber - well it's a small building company that claims to do complete jobs, and has lots of good feedback on mybuilder etc. Their quote was inline with the others I got.

Two different guys have been involved in doing different aspects. Problem is the guy they used for tiling obviously isn't a skilled or experienced tiler. Normally, as a keen DIYer, I'd have tackled this job by doing parts myself (labouring, carpentry and joinery), and then calling in specific trades for specific aspects (plumber for pipes, tiler, plasterer). That would have taken longer, and does come with its own difficulties, and my other half was keen to just "pay someone to get it all done",.... so I went down the "turnkey" route.

Hasn't been a *totally* negative experience, other aspects of the job have been done well, and they've not been difficult to deal with. After three attempts, the first two of which I rejected, they did eventually manage a good job tiling the three outer corners in the room.

15mm gap at bottom has now been filled by cutting 10mm strips from the wall tiles. Gap underneath of a few mm to be filled with silicone later. As the tiles are matt white, and the grout is white - it looks ok. I'm satisfied with this mitigation.

Top of wall is still an issue. I'm going to get them to put up another layer of plasterboard on the ceiling to lower it. Will eliminate that unsightly grout filled gap.

I totally get what people say about refusing the job and having it all done again..... but right now the hassle of doing that seems overwhelming.

Will try and get pics later from my other half's phone.

Safe to say that I won't be taking this approach to the remaining aspects of the house renovation though!

 

[Boggs]

Ah, Mybuilder is where it may have gone wrong.
Not entirely sure of how it works, do registered tradespeople buy the lead?
But I would think some reviews could just be faked by associates of said tradesman putting up work that never existed, hiring that person and leaving a glowing review.
Once they are in your property and it’s all going wrong this happens.
But I am sure there are lots of genuine quality tradespeople on there, but possibly too easily faked.
Entirely my own view.
Awaits a verbal slapping.

 

[widler]

Really could do with photos.
I actually smell a rat, I don’t know anybody who does not have a camera phone in the house, and that includes my 86 year old mum.
Hello from Craig, hows it going , missed me

 

[thomashenry]

Really could do with photos.
I actually smell a rat, I don’t know anybody who does not have a camera phone in the house, and that includes my 86 year old mum.
Hello from Craig, hows it going , missed me

I have an iPhone which has been dropped several times and has a broken camera. I'm sure I'm not the only one. Managed to borrow a phone and take some photos though:

 

[widler]

Jesus , it looks like a car salesman has done it

 

[Waluigi]

Someone who is out of their depth clearly.

Often on these full refurbs the prep work isn’t done properly, the walls need to be nice and flat for the person doing the tiling to stand half a chance. Getting walls flat takes takes time and costs money.

 

[Boggs]

Is it a wetroom then?

 

[Bathfix Bob]

I think they are rubber protection mats on the floor?