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Fekin
Just finished a job on a site, well a shop renovation.
As this was my first time on a site I had all materials supplied, so I was told on the phone by the shop fitters director, and they needed me to just turn up and tile, mosaics in a toilet and kitchen, everythings freshly plasterboarded and a light skim, and all ready to tile.
Sound I thought, their shop fitters and I've been told everything I could possibly need will be there.
Turned up at the shop and the freshly fixed and skimed boards in the large disabled toilet are really a mix of bare plasterboard "snapped right at the middle height of the walls with gaps, bends and slightly bowing in some places.
Great I thought.
I was told I needed to tile upto the last full mosaic tile before the middle of the room, so that was good as they were gonna fill the joins and paint, then I was told to tile past the joins :sad_smile: as the painters said it wouldn't fill and paint.
Got the whole toilet tiled and was just finishing off the grouting and along comes the joined and starts hammering and chisling the friggin door frame, baring in mind the walls are only flimsy stud walls.
Nightmare, groutlines cracking everwhere, walls flexing on the center lines kicking a full row of tiles loose n all.
Fixed up damaged grout lines best I could, ended to having to relay a whole top strip, scrape out and re-grout..... arghh !!!!!
No silicone to do expansion joints, had to grout them instead, and for some reason the Ardex grout they had, left white residue all over the tile faces no matter how small an area I grouted and cleaned up at a time, or what blend I did, it still left a horrific white coating, and no tile cleaner to speak of.
All in all a nightmare of a job, lol
Now I have to invoice them for payment too :icon9:
Don't know if I would do shop fitters tiling again, don't like being out of the loop when it comes to materials.
Anyway, enough for now, congratulations if you've made it this far, lol
As this was my first time on a site I had all materials supplied, so I was told on the phone by the shop fitters director, and they needed me to just turn up and tile, mosaics in a toilet and kitchen, everythings freshly plasterboarded and a light skim, and all ready to tile.
Sound I thought, their shop fitters and I've been told everything I could possibly need will be there.
Turned up at the shop and the freshly fixed and skimed boards in the large disabled toilet are really a mix of bare plasterboard "snapped right at the middle height of the walls with gaps, bends and slightly bowing in some places.
Great I thought.
I was told I needed to tile upto the last full mosaic tile before the middle of the room, so that was good as they were gonna fill the joins and paint, then I was told to tile past the joins :sad_smile: as the painters said it wouldn't fill and paint.
Got the whole toilet tiled and was just finishing off the grouting and along comes the joined and starts hammering and chisling the friggin door frame, baring in mind the walls are only flimsy stud walls.
Nightmare, groutlines cracking everwhere, walls flexing on the center lines kicking a full row of tiles loose n all.
Fixed up damaged grout lines best I could, ended to having to relay a whole top strip, scrape out and re-grout..... arghh !!!!!
No silicone to do expansion joints, had to grout them instead, and for some reason the Ardex grout they had, left white residue all over the tile faces no matter how small an area I grouted and cleaned up at a time, or what blend I did, it still left a horrific white coating, and no tile cleaner to speak of.
All in all a nightmare of a job, lol
Now I have to invoice them for payment too :icon9:
Don't know if I would do shop fitters tiling again, don't like being out of the loop when it comes to materials.
Anyway, enough for now, congratulations if you've made it this far, lol
