Advice On Whether This Tiling Is Acceptable?

[Tracie lincoln]

Trust a trader and other similar sites are a complete waste of time and offer no guarantee of a decent job. Unfortunately people don't realise this until its too late. Would be interested to know if he sees this!!

Hope he does see it! , someone asked if I wud name him! I want to very much but this wud hurt his wife (don't care if it hurts him!) so all I can say is I live in Biggleswade Bedfordshire and so does.........

 

[Spare Tool]

Trust a trader and other similar sites are a complete waste of time and offer no guarantee of a decent job. Unfortunately people don't realise this until its too late. Would be interested to know if he sees this!!

Very true, they ring me up nearly every week asking if id like to be on there site.."we only have high class professionals on our site" how do they know if your any good, might have only been tiling a week, they don't come out and see your work, just want you to set up a direct debit..

 

[StevieBoy]

At least he mitred the corners of the trim I'll give him that.

Not good really, definitely would hold back payment until sorted for sure.

 

[mma]

At least he mitred the corners of the trim I'll give him that.

Not good really, definitely would hold back payment until sorted for sure.

Are you from Lincoln?...

 

[StevieBoy]

Are you from Lincoln?...

No

 

[One Day]

I'll probably get blasted for saying this but here goes; any professional tiler who needs outfits like trustatrader etc to get work is not going to be at the top of the game. a good tradesman will have a steady stream of work from repeats, referals and recommendations, with no need to advertise at all.

 

[Spud]

Have any of you guys used urban concrete ? Not defending this guy but they are very sizey and the glaze is prone to chipping

 

[Spare Tool]

I'll probably get blasted for saying this but here goes; any professional tiler who needs outfits like trustatrader etc to get work is not going to be at the top of the game. a good tradesman will have a steady stream of work from repeats, referals and recommendations, with no need to advertise at all.

I agree with all of that apart from the last line, I dare say I could possibly get by with previous customer recommendations and trade contacts but...ive only had a website for the past year and the flow of work off it has literally been off the scale since that went online, turning work away till mid Feb at the moment and don't think you can ever have enough potential customers

 

[Andy Allen]

Have any of you guys used urban concrete ? Not defending this guy but they are very sizey and the glaze is prone to chipping

I have ...and there absolute *****. ....my normal wet cutter ripped the glaze to pieces........Btw there 600x300 wall and floor tile......but I wouldn't recommend it on the floor...
No excuse for a crap job.....as pro tilers you should be able to get round these issues. .

 

[Tracie lincoln]

Have any of you guys used urban concrete ? Not defending this guy but they are very sizey and the glaze is prone to chipping

This maybe so, but I said to them "if there was a problem with the tiles cutting they should of let me know, I wud of gone and got more", but they didn't say and he put up chipped ones, no excuse for that!

 

[Tracie lincoln]

I have ...and there absolute *****. ....my normal wet cutter ripped the glaze to pieces........Btw there 600x300 wall and floor tile......but I wouldn't recommend it on the floor...
No excuse for a crap job.....as pro tilers you should be able to get round these issues. .

Only had them as main wall tile, there were good reviews about them on B@Q I looked before I brought them, yes no excuse for crap job.

 

[Tracie lincoln]

I'll probably get blasted for saying this but here goes; any professional tiler who needs outfits like trustatrader etc to get work is not going to be at the top of the game. a good tradesman will have a steady stream of work from repeats, referals and recommendations, with no need to advertise at all.

Apparently he's always busy so this is why I can't understand why he put no care an thought into doing mine, he's coming back this morning to rectify some of the issues, he can't do them all or he'll have to start from scratch and I don't want him here for another 2 days.

 

[Dave]

Please dont go posting prices ...

Can you post pics taken a bit further back ?

Imho close up pics highlight probs to be worse than they seem , not saying your cuts are ok but would like to see pics taken a tad further back..

The mosaics are deffo out of line .. If its just a few errors , then they can be corrected to keep all parties satisfied.

 

[Tracie lincoln]

Admin can you plz remove this post, the tiler says it's the tiles. Thanks

 

[Italy]

and b & q say blame tiler?????
crazy

 

[Andy Allen]

Only had them as main wall tile, there were good reviews about them on B@Q I looked before I brought them, yes no excuse for crap job.

I would take the reviews on b&q Web site with a pinch of salt......There a budget tile, very sizey with a thin glaze prone to chipping when trying to cut them....There are ways round that which is why I said there's no excuse for fitting chipped tiles....However your not going to get the abu dhabi 5 star hotel bathroom look !!!

I would be surprised if all this person did was tiling...looks to me like someone that has done some tiling but is way out of his depth with a large tile, difficult to cut and a mosaic boarder...