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The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP
Outstanding work.:yikes:
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poynton phil
TF
OMG, you really do have to feel sorry for the customer who's paying these clowns.
Saw this one a while ago. I'm not a professional tiler by trade but I was amazed that this guy was getting away with it. He was a bathroom fitter and said that he had been fitting bathrooms day in day out for the last 20 years. I don't know him - he saw me mixing plaster, stopped and asked if I would skim a ceiling for him. He told me that it was boarded and ready to go. When I got there I found that it was indeed boarded but that everything else in the room had been done including tiling and grouting. I didn't have any tape with me to stop the plaster bleeding into the grout and he didn't even seem bothered by it! The grout line around the top of the tiles meeting the ceiling varied between 10mm to 18mm. The mitres didn't meet up and were proud, he didn't bother drilling tiles, he just cut them and then pieced them together around the object. He also did all of his own electrics so I suggested that the owners get an electrician in as the downlights were not even bathroom rated
I'm confused. Is that the customer filming his tiler fixing his tiles? Not sure what's going on in the video but OMG to the tiling!
I think there taking them off and cleaning them to start again a customer would have to have a big pair to start filming while there still working.
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Stef
NICE. :yikes::yikes::yikes:
I was a bit confused. Not sure whether they are fixing or removing as there are, what look like, cleaned up tiles on the floor. Whichever, it's not looking too pretty.
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steveb
i'm sure the tiles would look quite good if they were done properly, but.......
poynton phil
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Heres a nice traverine floor, I looked at today :yikes::yikes::yikes:
Did the reduced to clear sticker include the fitting for a quid? Shocking!!
poynton phil
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I could get my thumb inbetween the tile, and wall, plenty of lips, he'd used grey addy, laid directly on to 18mm ply, the cupboard under the sink rocks badly, and dont you just love the leaning shower base leg.
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White Room
At that rate then your'll be busy putting it right...:lol:
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davebates
been and ripped up this floor today thats failed no addy has stuck to the tiles cant think why ???the floor is chipboard thats bouncing up and down with just a hand full of nail's but the addy has bonded to the chipboard really well in fact its took me two days to get it off I wanted to change it for ply but customer concerned it will cost to much so ill have to screw it all down proper then over board with no more ply.....
when getting the addy up I noticed it does not feel like cement based and has no weight to it and theres no sand in it either, the customer said it looked really wet when the other tiler was spreading out so god only knows what he used quite scary really but he works for quite a big shop near by....
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DHTiling
Pourable thick bed adhesive, the reason
that is was so wet.
Porcelain can pop off adhesive easier ad you know but the bouncy floor would have caused what you have there.
Is it a floating floor ?
that is was so wet.
Porcelain can pop off adhesive easier ad you know but the bouncy floor would have caused what you have there.
Is it a floating floor ?
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davebates
oh right its an upstairs bathroom with joists spaced 40cm apart i think it was just the floor boards were not fixed right some boards only had two nails in ive screwed it all down now with 32mm screws and it feels solid ill over board with no more ply and refit new tiles should be sound
Outstanding work. I see jobs like this every month. An en-suite where we were just supposed to take the bath out, put a shower in with boards and infil the half dozen tiles that would be left exposed ended up in a £5k full refit as the tiles had been put onto fresh paint over fresh plaster and just fell off in a big sheet when we took the bath screen off....
That and the other ensuite cost £16k 2 years ago. Bloody hell we are undercharging and over-delivering to people. The other ensuite has a leak and the chipboard floor is knackered under the corner leg. Built in cistern cannot be got at unless you take the basin and worktop off (its passing all the time). How much she asks? Less than it cost to put it in! Flipping cowboys. "Big" named company, lots of advertising, lots of rip-offs and pfut theyre gone and wont come back. Grrr
That and the other ensuite cost £16k 2 years ago. Bloody hell we are undercharging and over-delivering to people. The other ensuite has a leak and the chipboard floor is knackered under the corner leg. Built in cistern cannot be got at unless you take the basin and worktop off (its passing all the time). How much she asks? Less than it cost to put it in! Flipping cowboys. "Big" named company, lots of advertising, lots of rip-offs and pfut theyre gone and wont come back. Grrr
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Stef
Went to look at a job today, this is what I found.
This was tiled about 7/8 years ago by "The Best Tiler in Glasgow"
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Peter
Wonder if the dot n dab brigade only charge for the half bag of adhesive they actually use or do they price it for a bag to every 4-5m?
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White Room
Did you have to knock them off or did they just fall off themselves....
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Stef
The tiles were about 550mm x 330mm roughly & they were stuck with tubbed addy.
Dont think it would really matter what addy they were stuck with.
Dont think it would really matter what addy they were stuck with.
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White Room
Tile on tile, so coooooooooooool:yikes:
Here we go again
This bathroom was done 6 weeks ago by a builder in 2 days, 20m walls, 4m floor
Cracked tile after fixing cabinet to wall
View from inside window reveal into room £1 and 10 pence for your info Dan!!
No drill available
A laser level was used on this job, believe it or not
This is how far the tap stood off the bath
£ 3000 labour to rip out old bathroom and do plumbing and tiling. Took 5 weeks to do.
Sorry about the creaking necks lads
This bathroom was done 6 weeks ago by a builder in 2 days, 20m walls, 4m floor
Cracked tile after fixing cabinet to wall View from inside window reveal into room £1 and 10 pence for your info Dan!!No drill availableA laser level was used on this job, believe it or notThis is how far the tap stood off the bath£ 3000 labour to rip out old bathroom and do plumbing and tiling. Took 5 weeks to do.
Sorry about the creaking necks lads
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White Room
How much did pay him to do the job John....
He'd quoted 3k to rip out and refit bathroom not including any materials, customer to provide all bath, taps, toilet, tiles, etc. Turns out he introduced a tiler to the job who then couldn't do the job, due to various circumstances so the builder did it himself, as he was on a deadline to start another job. They still owe him £300 and will not pay him. I went to look at this job as I was working next door and the guy has seen my work now. Asked me to look at it. Told him it all needs to come out, but the guy must have a chance to rectify at his cost the mistakes that have been made.
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White Room
He has be given the chance to rectify, can't see much chance of that happening though....I feel slow when I read that.
Heard somethink similar today about speed and must admit get sick of hearing it...the quality is kak John and the customer has to pay again, it never ends.
Heard somethink similar today about speed and must admit get sick of hearing it...the quality is kak John and the customer has to pay again, it never ends.
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