Tiler mistakes - Advice required

agasi88

Remove the tiles near the gaps resize and cut the correct tile sizes boom sorted :beer:

southcoastrgi

agasi88 wrote: »

Remove the tiles near the gaps resize and cut the correct tile sizes boom sorted :beer:

something tells me you haven't done much tiling

keystone

Anything bar stripping them off and doing it all again is a bodge. You may get away with using something at the wall/ceiling interface to cover up the gap but that isn't the bit where it will notice - which is round the window. Irrespective of whether the window frame is level or not the tiling should have been done so that its square to the frame. You would not notice the ceiling differences if you had a half to three quarter depth tile up there cut to the angle.

If he used tubbed addy take them off now as it will not yet have dried completely but the longer you leave it the longer it will take to clean them. If its set rock solid then it will still come off. Soak in hot water to do so. The tiles WILL be resuable so you don't need to worry about that. You just have a time consuiming exercise on your hands to get them cleaned up.

If its bagged cementatious addy then you've lost those tiles I am afraid or you put up with a bodge to fix it.

How did you manage to run out of tiles? The process is measure, measure again, add 10% (on that size tiles) to the measured area for cuts etc, round up to the nearest whole boxfull and additionally, buy an additional box for a) just in case or b) future breakage. You can always take a box back for refund if you don't need it.

Cheers

keystone

agasi88 wrote: »

Remove the tiles near the gaps resize and cut the correct tile sizes boom sorted :beer:

Remind me not to employ you on any tiling job huh? :D

Cheers

keystone

tonyfaestoney wrote: »

Now left with the problem of getting another tiler as he is fully booked

Mmmmm. Translation follows:

I've bug gered this one up and I don't want the hasle of even thinking of fixing it so I'm just going to turn my back on it and run away. I'll get away with it by not charging them. I'll pretend that I'm fully booked to justify my position.

and from what I hear it is November at earliest to get another tiler.

From whom? It looks a smallish room so a couple of days max. Ask your local tile shop to recommend a few.

Cheers

cyclonebri1

Ok, I've lost the photobucket thing but from your 1st post you said the issue was the levels and gaps at the wall/ceiling interphase??

If that's so the simplest way to fix it would be to overboard the ceiling and reskim, bringing the roof down below the existing gap.

Yes lateral thinking, but I an simply trying to find/suggest a cheaper option, regardless of who pays, than destroying what has already been done.

keystone

cyclonebri1 wrote: »

Ok, I've lost the photobucket thing but from your 1st post you said the issue was the levels and gaps at the wall/ceiling interphase??

Mmmm yes the linky is now indeed broken. The second photo showed a line of tiles moving upwards away from the window frame presumably because he was trying to follow the grout lines that he'd already established on the other wall with the increasing gap. Thats not fixable without taking them down and when it has been then the grout lines won't match up with the remainder on the other walls and it will look like what it is - a total and utter bodge. I see no solution in that scenario than to start again TBH.

Cheers

cyclonebri1

Ok I can accept that, considering no image.

So, that really does go to prove that even though he is a professional tiler, who is fully booked, he can make a complete balls of a job.

The gap between diy and pro does overlap sometimes.