Terrible bathroom refurbishment

ozdemirozgur

Hi,


we are currently suffering due to a very bad bath refurbishment 80% completed by the builder and we stopped. Basically, shower installed wrong, leaking behind toilet, and tiles... tiles i do not want to talk about them as they are extremely terrible. We had paid 500 for labor fortunately but tiles was around 1.5 K which was all wasted. We are planning to remove all of them now and do from scratch but trying to find out what is the best in case we can recover some of the money back. I had 2 other plumbers had a look and both said this is terrible job and should be removed.

Furts

You have a history on this forum of questions that implicate bodging, cutting corners, and ignoring advice.

In fairness some folks take on board what they are told and learn from their misfortunes. However, an 80% complete bathroom refurbishment incurring a labour bill of only £500, which means you went into a contract prepared to pay only two days labour. What do you expect people to advise?

Over to other forum contributors - I am out.

Doozergirl

You paid £500 for a bathroom fit including tiles?

What do you expect?

How many times do we tell people to do their homework and not to value price over quality. I'm actually horrified that you valued your tiles more than the person fitting them.

You bought cheap. You pay dear.

ozdemirozgur

not including tiles. It is a very small wetroom and toilet not a bathroom.

always_sunny

Frankly I doubt you'll be able to recover any of the money you spent for either labour and/or material, hopefully you have learned a valuable lesson though.

Doozergirl

ozdemirozgur wrote: »

not including tiles. It is a very small wetroom and toilet not a bathroom.

Including tiling, not tiles. 'Tiling' is the guy doing it. You were quite happy to spend £1500 on tiles, which is a significant amount for someone behaving as if they are on a restricted budget when it comes to labour.

And now it's a wetroom which is hugely more in labour than a regular shower room.

You are also utterly naive if you think even a shower room, let alone a wetroom is less work than a bathroom.

The smallest ensuite, fully tiled would include 16 square metres of tiles. They average British bathroom fully tiled is about 20 square metres of tiles. Both have sinks, taps, toilets - there is no difference.

And here is the lesson about why it's best to let your fitter supply as well. It makes them responsible for the tiles they make a mess of.

I'm sorry, but you are the very worst of customers and every tradesperson's nightmare. The one whomexpects something for nothing and then tries to put the liability back on the person that they actually tried to exploit.

You paid for the very worst job. That is what you got.

Doozergirl

I'm actually quite angry. Fitting a bathroom is not a case of plonking stuff and expecting it to fit properly. It is a full blown building job and people deserve to get paid for it.

ozdemirozgur

Hi,
Can I suggest Doozergirl please you stop commenting. as you are not providing any useful information.
thanks

ozdemirozgur

just to make it clear, £500 was not the of course full price. Total was much higher which was agreed to be paid once job is completed. Total tile cost is actually around £1800. We did not behave like we are on a limited budget but we were late to recognise he was not a plumber but just a cowboy builder. This was due to mostly me not being around because of work.

phil24_7

On the contrary, she is telling you how it is, so that you don't make the same mistakes in future.

Essentially you have brought this problem on yourself. You may have some recourse against the plumber/tiler but you will need to prove he was at fault and not the supplied materials (another reason for letting the contractor source and buy materials). You will also need to show what should have been done, so will need a contract or some form of written agreement. Even then it will be tough to prove in a Court as the professional will likely just say all of the customer source materials were inappropriate!

I would just cough up and get the job done properly.

always_sunny

ozdemirozgur wrote: »

Hi,
Can I suggest Doozergirl please you stop commenting. as you are not providing any useful information.
thanks

Have a look at http://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/advice/how-to-complain-if-youre-unhappy-with-building-work

Though if you didn't have a contract and the person who performed the job wasn't a real tradesman then it's all a bit difficult. Did you pay cash or credit card?

The reality is that you basically handed £500 to someone without doing any due diligence and now you wish to recoup the cost.