Told him for that I would work on a day rate + materials and gave him the cost per day, and he seemed happy to pay that if I end up re-doing it for him. :drool5:
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Told him for that I would work on a day rate + materials and gave him the cost per day, and he seemed happy to pay that if I end up re-doing it for him. :drool5:
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I don't think your've got any choice on daywork, what will you find underneath:yikes::lol:
I know it was done with tubbed addy for 500x330 tiles and he used tubbed addy for timber of floor. Walls have been re-plastered
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Bloody hell.....
took a pic on my phone of a shower rooom with horrendous prep today....laminate flooring siliconed into the wall to plug gaps etc asked me to fit mosaics also another wall with old tiles rendered over with a cement/lime type mix which was falling off in sheets pity my phone software aint on my computer it was a corker
If you have e-mail on your phone you can send the pics to your own mail address and then fire up mail on PC/laptop and it should be there, save the attachment to your hard drive and then upload on to here.
As said before why do people pay for shoddy work. 3k to rip out and refit not including mats in 2 days if i was charging that I'd be a millionaire i put aside two weeks for full bathroom normally take 7-8 days and still wouldn't be 3k
The 3k was for the labour on the whole bathroom, but when the tiler couldn't do the job the builder did it instead, and he tiled it in 2 days to finish the job. I think he did finish the job in the true sense of the word!!!!
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A few gaps under the slate......
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Just read through this thread and seen some proper horrors. Saw something like this a couple of times;
What is the correct way to do this sort of cut? would you go to the trouble of getting the system drained, removing the rad valve and drilling the tile?
What is the correct way to do this sort of cut? would you go to the trouble of getting the system drained, removing the rad valve and drilling the tile?
Sometime this is unavoidable. But, in the picture you have there perhaps some biege Silicon for the cut marks instead of grout would of looked a bit better.
Yes, if you want it doing correctly.
If that's not possible I normally drill a hole where the rad stalk comes out of the floor, and then from the wall side of the tile I would do 2 cuts on the wet cutter in a V shape towards the hole. Then I would fix the tile in place and then slide the V shape cut out towards the pipe which closes the gap left by the cut of the wet cutter. Possibly fill any little nicks with same colour silicon.
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Sorting out a shower cubicle at the mo, it's been leaking. It's a catalogue of errors but my favourite part is the tray. The opening is 90x80cm and the tray that had been used was 70x70, the area around the edge had a little shelf on it, not a problem I hear you say, well here's what I found when I started taking it apart
Two courses of bricks, not stuck by the way just placed in around the edge, covered with about an inch of skim, then the tiled shelf on top! Some how this lasted 10 years before it leaked, mind you, there were several tiles siliconed to the wall, I'd guess that a dozen tubes of Silicon had been used.
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Two courses of bricks, not stuck by the way just placed in around the edge, covered with about an inch of skim, then the tiled shelf on top! Some how this lasted 10 years before it leaked, mind you, there were several tiles siliconed to the wall, I'd guess that a dozen tubes of Silicon had been used.
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Massive hole Ali, I built a new frame out of 4x2 to put the new one on, screwed the frame straight to the joists.
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Ripping out a newly tiled bathroom which is only a month old. Carpenter had a unique fixing method!
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Thats the Teflon version, non stick:lol:
Why are having to rip it off Geoff after only a month...
Why are having to rip it off Geoff after only a month...
Its becoming a regular monthly discovery. Builders, plasterers and plumbers who say they do the whole job but...well, you know the rest.
Today's gem is an 800 quad held in place by 1 screw only, no Silicon in the base of the wall plates and about 2 tubes worth under the front bar. Oh, and a lovely surprise water feature in the dining room when they used it for the first time. They only moved in on saturday.
Today's gem is an 800 quad held in place by 1 screw only, no Silicon in the base of the wall plates and about 2 tubes worth under the front bar. Oh, and a lovely surprise water feature in the dining room when they used it for the first time. They only moved in on saturday.
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There was massive lippage and bad cuts which owner wasn't happy with
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Another one for the collection- called by a couple to look at "settlement cracks" in the floor of their ensuite (it's ok though as that's what the builder told them might happen after a couple of years!!!! :yikes🙂
I had to break the bad news to the customers that the cowboy fixing was to blame. The builder had laid the Marmox showerlay former directly onto joists with the rest of the floor (chipboard) tiled onto with NO tanking. The whole floor moves!!! I have never seen such a bad job
I had to break the bad news to the customers that the cowboy fixing was to blame. The builder had laid the Marmox showerlay former directly onto joists with the rest of the floor (chipboard) tiled onto with NO tanking. The whole floor moves!!! I have never seen such a bad job
Jesus it's a wonder they didn't fall through that floor!!!!!
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I very nearly did!!!!
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Not being funny Geoff but are they big people...
Haha Mark you are being funny
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No, the former failed where it wasn't supported by anything and then the rest followed. The kitchen ceiling downstairs is soaked!
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Tongue in cheek John, to be told your'll get settlement in a couple of years was a bad sign....thats got to be the worst cracking ever:yikes:
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