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

[Tile Shop]

Builder + Wetroom floor + Quartz + UFH = POP!

 

[Dan]

Oh god. What a bloody shame! builder paying out?

 

[Tile Shop]

Crackle tiles....... oopsies. Someone forgot the sealer 🙂

 

[Tile Shop]

Oh god. What a bloody shame! builder paying out?

Haven't heard for a while. She was taking him to court last time I heard cuz she'd spent her last few pennies on getting this done.

Just going through my collection of pictures. Some may have already been posted before, but some are also worth a second laugh 🙂

 

[Tile Shop]

Problem..... Moisture ingress and shading on BCT tiles. Multiple causes including not the greatest quality, tubbed adhesive (on a 500x250 tile) and dot'n'dab (can see from the patches)

 

[Tile Shop]

Crackle Dados are not to be used as Skirtings. Especially when up against a truly floating floor. This floor is going to be used as a trampoline in the Rio Olympics.

Oh, and there's a pube!

 

[Simons70]

Public offices bathrooms,6 Floors x male,female,disable,Brompton Road...

 

[Spare Tool]

I was gonna stick this in kitchen fitters forum but I like this forum 🙂
Started a kitchen splashy today and came across this, I guess the end panels were, erm lets say an after thought...it'll do 🙁
Oh and there was a 4inch infill panel next to end cupboard to play with so no excuses Mr joiner!!

Great scribing too 🙁

 

[bigdave1903]

I was gonna stick this in kitchen fitters forum but I like this forum 🙂
Started a kitchen splashy today and came across this, I guess the end panels were, erm lets say an after thought...it'll do 🙁
Oh and there was a 4inch infill panel next to end cupboard to play with so no excuses Mr joiner!!
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Great scribing too 🙁
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Do your best and caulk the rest

 

[Time's Ran Out]

You have to feel for the client here!

 

[Spare Tool]

You have to feel for the client here!

Absolutely, surely joinery is a finishing trade on par with tiling, this is a brand new kitchen ok probably Howdens or the like but I couldn't for shame leave that n sleep well 🙁

Do your best and caulk the rest

I ain't getting involved in no caulking, I'll deal with my bit, joiner n decorator can fight over that bit 😉

 

[John Benton]

And they wondered why the shower tray was flexing and water leaking downstairs.......

Please leave your horse tied up outside !!!

 

[WetSaw]

"Like" is the wrong choice but that's quite a job they've done there!

 

[John Benton]

"Like" is the wrong choice but that's quite a job they've done there!

The shower tray was sat only on that many blobs of mortar. £9k was charged for this bathroom, floor is d&d'd as well, There's a broken tile 'L' shape around soil stack boxing in on floor and the guy who did it said, "if I replace it, it will only break again as it's a weak point"

 

[WetSaw]

I wonder if the installers quote stated " for display purposes only". Clearly not suitable to be used!

 

[John Benton]

I wonder if the installers quote stated " for display purposes only". Clearly not suitable to be used!

Well it hasn't been used for 3 months so technically it was a display 😉

 

[Kyle Knowles]

I'm in hospital having a baby and the tiling round the lifts is real bad a decent rock climber could scale it its so lippy and the joints are very badly spaced

 

[WetSaw]

Good luck with the baby, hope it's not too painful for you.

 

[Rickm34]

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That is shocking. What did they use a shovel

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[Tile Shop]

His tiles fell off the wall while fixing. Apparently, the adhesive was faulty!

 

[WetSaw]

Clearly faulty adhesive as it hasn't stuck to the walls or the tiles 😉

 

[White Room]

Looks like the tiles could be reused.....

 

[Dan]

Any more for the rogues thread or what?

 

[Old Mod]

😀😛

 

[Del W]

Only a bit out,,,,

 

[Blunt Tool]

Wanted non slip tiles 🙂

 

[demi34]

Have a look this one

 

[dave l and l]

Wanted non slip tiles 🙂View attachment 88417[/s

surely no one is that stupid . was there a reason for them to be down like that

 

[GoneGuy]

Apparently customer was happy with this, was on every door downstairs in a new house

 

[Dan]

Apparently customer was happy with this, was on every door downstairs in a new house

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No excuse for that.

 

[GoneGuy]

And when I tapped some of the floor tiles they sounded hollow, i advised them not to wear high heels.
Where the tile finished in doorway to hallway it was finished with a tile trim and not a threshold bar