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Public Thread!: Poor Tiling Workmanship by DIY and Rogue Traders

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Here you go. 10 cracked Travertine tiles in a floor due to bad tiling. Travertine floor-Tunbridge wells 001.jpgTravertine floor-Tunbridge wells 005.jpgTravertine floor-Tunbridge wells 007.jpgTravertine floor-Tunbridge wells 009.jpgTravertine floor-Tunbridge wells 010.jpg
 
Nice one.

I thought somebody must have seen something somewhere 🙂
 
Bubble were the tiles blown or loose ? or had this fixing method worked just out of interest ??

The ones around the pan were cracked but the rest were fine & so was the grout. TBH, it took me HOURS to get them up. They were a nightmare!
 
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And there was this one. Guy started @ 9am & was still there @ 10.30pm that night to do 4m2. This is the result the customer got:
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After removal of the tiles I noticed some areas were packed to at least 25mm with ready mixed addy. The plasterboard had been attempted to be stuck to the brick wall with a 50mm cavity with ready mixed too.
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He stuck the tiles to painted existing tiles
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I started @ 9am, removed both sets of tiles, re-sheeted, tiled, grouted & siliconed by 3pm. God knows what he was doing to be there that length of time. Customer even bought him a chippy @ 7pm as they felt bad for him.

Heres the end result with Milford Cream I think it was
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i know that Blob fixing or dot/dab or whatever you like to call it, is frowned -on and not -up to BS, but it's equally still not illegal to fix like this it's just another way to fix tile ( i and most on here would never dream of fixing like this ) but as said i think it allowable !!! technically .......
 

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