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

[peteablard]

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was working on the bathroom went down to make a cuppa and come across this 🙂

You can just imagine the blobs of adhesive under the tile in picture 4 to allow it to crack like that!!

 

[prceramics]

just been speaking to the customer she done the floor tiles herself but the splashback was done by a very well known company and cost her a load of money

 

[CON5933]

This didn't look too bad when I arrived.I was only fitting the screens as a favour.

Then I looked deeper..

The customer asked me what I thought..


The job was done about 6 months earlier..

 

[DHTiling]

Jeeez megga ingression or wetting .. was it leaking fittings or just ingression..?

 

[Mr T]

no way that's terrible no attempt at all to keep the water away

 

[John Benton]

Looks like pipe collars for radiators around shower valve !!!!

 

[CON5933]

Jeeez megga ingression or wetting .. was it leaking fittings or just ingression..?

Just leaks... 5 joints out of 6.. but the 'timber' must have been wet before it was tiled.

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Looks like pipe collars for radiators around shower valve !!!!

lol...correct

 

[CON5933]

no way that's terrible no attempt at all to keep the water away

my sentiments exactly

 

[DHTiling]

Let's all petition to BAN!! plywood in the tiling trade 🙂

 

[ian158]

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.

no they say..that'll do..they wont notice

 

[Tiler Blackpool]

had to lift these up last week. cracked tiles all over the floor. took me 20 mins to pull up 7m2 as they came up so easily.could of flicked them up with my pinky! Floor hadnt been primed prior to tiling and as you can see.......five spotted. EVERY SINGLE ONE!!!!!!!

 

[DHTiling]

View attachment 52369View attachment 52370had to lift these up last week. cracked tiles all over the floor. took me 20 mins to pull up 7m2 as they came up so easily.could of flicked them up with my pinky! Floor hadnt been primed prior to tiling and as you can see.......five spotted. EVERY SINGLE ONE!!!!!!!

How thick was the ply.. ? .. and looking at those pics , there appears to be very little fixings :lol:

 

[Martyn Leeds]

He was tight with his blobs! Least its an easy rip-out for you

 

[Tiler Blackpool]

How thick was the ply.. ? .. and looking at those pics , there appears to be very little fixings :lol:

Well...on the plus side the ply was 15mm and it was actually screwed down at every 300mm so the substrate was fine! I originally priced for taking the tiles and whatever the existing substrate was up and replacing with backerboard but didnt need to in the end.

 

[High Peak Tiling]

View attachment 52369View attachment 52370had to lift these up last week. cracked tiles all over the floor. took me 20 mins to pull up 7m2 as they came up so easily.could of flicked them up with my pinky! Floor hadnt been primed prior to tiling and as you can see.......five spotted. EVERY SINGLE ONE!!!!!!!

He must of thought he was plaster boarding

 

[DHTiling]

Well...on the plus side the ply was 15mm and it was actually screwed down at every 300mm so the substrate was fine! I originally priced for taking the tiles and whatever the existing substrate was up and replacing with backerboard but didnt need to in the end.

Gotta love those " 5 spotters..." quite a common breed of person you know 🙂

 

[mattle40]

The joiner was still there when I took these (I was pricing for the bathroom, this is the new £12k kitchen) I even tried to humour him when asking what happened in the doorway as the rest wasn't too bad.
He said "I had to fiddle the joints to make it work" I nearly spat my crisps out of my nose!

 

[DHTiling]

Now that is classic :lol:

 

[demi34]

That's good one Dave. chocking mate.

 

[Mr T]

this is why I will always centre doorways even tho this has been handled terribly poor because the tiles are not centre it looks shoddy

 

[Gazzer]

Really ? at the expense of small cuts elsewhere ?
No 2 jobs are the same.

 

[Mr T]

Well you can either center the tile or centre the grout joint cant ya so I would always do it... Unless it causes slithers around the room and being off cant be avoided I just think doorways look 10 times better centred

 

[Gazzer]

What if you have 3 doorways ?

 

[Mr T]

Well if theres 3 doorways you have to sacrifice 2 and centre one... Unless it actually went smoothly enought to centre them all lol

 

[Mr T]

What would you do if theres 3 doors mate?

 

[Gazzer]

What would you do if theres 3 doors mate?

Thats why I say, every job is different.

 

[DHTiling]

Well if theres 3 doorways you have to sacrifice 2 and centre one... Unless it actually went smoothly enought to centre them all lol

Bollox.

 

[Rizzle from the Portizzle]

with a door way i always like to see a full tile when when i walk in to a room with 3 door ways i would take the main entrance grid out the floor from there to tile bays to work out the best balance for the room and door ways

 

[High Peak Tiling]

Lauguage you big girl! :lol:

 

[Mr T]

thats my prefference Dave... I would rather see a centred line from the doorway to the back wall and to me tiling is about making an impact as the customer comes in the room

 

[AliGage]

Who walks into a room looking at their feet??

Yes sometime/a lot of times its nice to walk into a centred layout from the door. But what if its got a WC opposite? Or another feature to the room. As Neal said. No two jobs are the same.