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DHTiling
They are classic don't have a clue about tiling pics John, deffo a descendant of John wayne . :lol:
Public Thread!: Poor Tiling Workmanship by DIY and Rogue Traders
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Line 'em up barman, the horse is tied up outside :lol:
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DHTiling
Some more pics i found on my PC of cowboy workmanship...
I wonder if the people who do work to this level ever stand back and look at their work and think, that doesn't quite look right. Or do they look at it and think that looks great.
It's just beyond me.
It's just beyond me.
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DHTiling
These 2 tilers that did it , ye 2 of them :lol: .. took a contract off me from a kitchen/bathroom comp .. they turned this type of work out day in day out till this happened at one of the salesman for the comps home :lol: ... let's say i got the contract back .. 🙂🙂🙂
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Rookery
I went to price up a job last night, a recommendation from a previous customer of mine. Builders did some alterations 12 months ago. Bathroom 1 - ceramics dot n dabbed straight onto chipboard. Its failed.
Bathroom 2 - ceramics dot n dabbed straight onto chipboard. Its failed too, I can lift some tiles with my fingers.
En-suite - Acrylic shower tray rocking in 1 corner when you stand on it, probably the leg not tightened up. Its caused the Silicon to pull away from the junction of wall and tray. Also the corners are only siliconed half way up, the top half is grout and its significantly cracked.
A few other minor issues - 1 WC pan has only one screw in it, the other side being filled with Silicon. They'd tried to hide this by siliconing a screw cover cap on. The other WC pan screwed down but an offcut of some blue plastic used to prevent the screwhead damaging the pottery. In other words a bit of a botch up. Neither W/B pedestal screwed down and the tiles behind both pedestals poorly cut and pieced in to save drilling holes for the feeds. There's probably more to be uncovered as the job progresses.
Bathroom 2 - ceramics dot n dabbed straight onto chipboard. Its failed too, I can lift some tiles with my fingers.
En-suite - Acrylic shower tray rocking in 1 corner when you stand on it, probably the leg not tightened up. Its caused the Silicon to pull away from the junction of wall and tray. Also the corners are only siliconed half way up, the top half is grout and its significantly cracked.
A few other minor issues - 1 WC pan has only one screw in it, the other side being filled with Silicon. They'd tried to hide this by siliconing a screw cover cap on. The other WC pan screwed down but an offcut of some blue plastic used to prevent the screwhead damaging the pottery. In other words a bit of a botch up. Neither W/B pedestal screwed down and the tiles behind both pedestals poorly cut and pieced in to save drilling holes for the feeds. There's probably more to be uncovered as the job progresses.
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White Room
How did they manage to nick the contract, must have been good talkers....but that was it.
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Rookery
How many times have we heard 'I've always done it that way and it's never failed', lots. What these cowboys dont realise is that often the unfortunate homeowner wont have them back in the house and so they dont know the extent of their failings.
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DHTiling
Cheap as chips... they used then when i was busy on a job and then it went from there.. so so many calls backs they had, i spent ages putting some jobs right or in a few cases re-tiling them..
I remember doing a job for a lady about 6 or 7 years ago. She'd had a guy in who she got out of the Yellow Pages. Replaced the taps on bath and basin, make and tile a bath panel and tile floor. Sounds easy enough.
First time she used the bath, down came the kitchen ceiling. I got a call as I used to do a bit of work through Bathstore and the customer went there to get the whole bathroom changed.
When I went to look at it, he'd taken the bath out to put the taps on, broken 50% of the tiles above the bath and then just siliconed the broken bits back on. He had tile a bath panel but the reason the ceiling came down was the fact he had not connected the waste back up after having the bath out, and a full bath of water came through.
The floor came up easy enough as he'd tiled directly on to vinyl floor. If the tiles had of been flexible I'd have just rolled it all up. :lol:
When I spoke to the customer she said he had told her 30 years of experience and never been back to a customers in all that time.
First time she used the bath, down came the kitchen ceiling. I got a call as I used to do a bit of work through Bathstore and the customer went there to get the whole bathroom changed.
When I went to look at it, he'd taken the bath out to put the taps on, broken 50% of the tiles above the bath and then just siliconed the broken bits back on. He had tile a bath panel but the reason the ceiling came down was the fact he had not connected the waste back up after having the bath out, and a full bath of water came through.
The floor came up easy enough as he'd tiled directly on to vinyl floor. If the tiles had of been flexible I'd have just rolled it all up. :lol:
When I spoke to the customer she said he had told her 30 years of experience and never been back to a customers in all that time.
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stusgsx
Took these photos a couple of years ago from a plot of 4 new build houses each selling for 1.2 million. This work was done by another "tiler" on site. I had to redo one of the floors he had laid but this room was fine?!
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True Tiling
Crazy expensive. I've come across 2 jobs like this. Bonded tiles with grab adhesive on walls which created a real nightmare to take off. The bond was good, but due to spot-fixing, the damp was really bad. Massive headache to remove!
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Dim MiM
Recently, Our tiler went to a job where the couple were tring to save money by diy. The results were they had used grout as adhesive, adhesive as as grout, the tiles were upside down(patten) it was rather funny and cost quite alot to replaceas they had hand made, hand painted tiles with a set design of a tree. Goes to show, better to pay the pro than have a goe yourself 🙂
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Ian
Went out for a couple of beers last night, there's a new cider bar opened. Very nicely refurbished place, until you get to the toilets, I quite literally laughed out loud!
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danmasey
Sexy tiling.
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Ambercat
I had that recently, idiot must have run out of adhesive as last 20 tiles were stuck on with white Silicon (all tile on tile). Took a lot of time and effort to get off :incazzato:
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Ambercat
Jesus that's a special kind of godawful
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Ian
Exactly, lol! You've seen what happens when I go out, it never ends well!
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charlie1
Clearly the owner has had a go at tiling, can you imagine the mess he would have been in lol
The tilings great, it's just the walls that are a bit out :smilewinkgrin:
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Jeff the tiler
Perhaps the tilers got to the bar first before starting????
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charlie1
Nah, completely intentional, last pic is just a recreation of porcelanisa cubica bronco
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detiling
Very poor plumbing too.
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brownin
We could dedicate a whole thread to pub toilets. Pretty sure they cop most of the worst tiling!
Just been to look at a job. This is a bathroom that was completed just before Xmas 2012, all work carried out by builder.
No silicon between tray and tiles just grout, no silicon between cubicle frame and tray, massive gaps around edge of room filled with grout and then covered in parts with silicon. 1 tile running at 90 degrees in front of shower tray to rest of floor. Notched out tiles where pipes are. joints up to 15mm where walls meet. Tiles not following profile of shower tray. Grout cracking and popping out of joints.
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No silicon between tray and tiles just grout, no silicon between cubicle frame and tray, massive gaps around edge of room filled with grout and then covered in parts with silicon. 1 tile running at 90 degrees in front of shower tray to rest of floor. Notched out tiles where pipes are. joints up to 15mm where walls meet. Tiles not following profile of shower tray. Grout cracking and popping out of joints.
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