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you say the tiles are straight and there's nothing wrong with them...
how did you check this..??
how did you check this..??
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you say the tiles are straight and there's nothing wrong with them...
how did you check this..??
you need to put them face to face to check if there bowing, like this...Measured the depth with a steel rule along the edges, and ran a spirit level across the tops with them butted against each other. Certainly nothing that would make lipping unavoidable...
Compensation isn't going to make the lips go away or make you happy with thThese are exactly my thoughts, at the moment I'm trying to gauge what would be acceptable compensation in that case. Half my money back? All of it?
You would think that about tiles , but as tilers we as the people at the end of the line have to deal poor quality materials and try and make a good job out of it.So there's a little bowing if you put them back to back like above, but this must be why the manufacturer specified no brick bond? There are cases where I have lipping along the full tile length though so this can't explain that.. Also, if the BS states max 1mm lipping for joints this small, surely the tiles should be designed to make this possible and that it's the installer's responsibility to check that it can be achieved?
Had to clip them all, used a ton of clips which made removing and cleaning them take twice as long.
🤣🤣🤣🤣So does using clips go a long way to solving the problem? Would they have ensured lipping was minimised to at least BS guidelines? I spoke to him on the phone and he said 'ah yeah, those clips are for people that don't know what they're doing..' I bit my tongue until I have all the facts.
See that's the theory I work on , I'm crap but I make sure I'm pricey , there for perceived value makes people think I'm good .Oh god.
When I last tiled there weren't such tiles around. When the clips first came about I was skeptical, thought it was an extra process that a good tiler doesn't need to do.
Having seen so so many threads now about bowed plank tiles (they bow when cooling when being manufactured) I now think the clips are a must.
And the proof is in the pudding lol
You didn't have clips used and have bowed lipped tiles.
Tiler choice has to come into it too. Picking the cheapest always gets you the guy who doesn't know what he's doing. I hope that wasn't the case with this one.
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