Tiling job completed, am I being too fussy

Aylesbury_Duck

usman330 wrote: »

Would be good to know what's telling you that....
Had quoted from £16m2 to £30m2

What price was this guy in that range?

Furts

Everybody is focussing on one, or two tile cuts by the cupboard. The give away answer is the cuts resulting from poor setting out at the passageway. Looks dreadful, looks like an amateur's work.


However OP engaged this person. No mention of what specification was drawn up, nor contract, nor price. If it was all meant to be a cash job, or a cheap job, or mates rates or whatever then the work has to be accepted. After all OP is managing the work and will have stood over the tiler and inspected the work in progress. By complaining now OP is largely accepting they have failed in their duties. If they have failed it is hard to put too much blame on the tiler.

usman330

Aylesbury_Duck wrote: »

What price was this guy in that range?

£20m2 but he was available at short notice, probably explains why he was available at short notice.

usman330

Furts wrote: »

Everybody is focussing on one, or two tile cuts by the cupboard. The give away answer is the cuts resulting from poor setting out at the passageway. Looks dreadful, looks like an amateur's work.


However OP engaged this person. No mention of what specification was drawn up, nor contract, nor price. If it was all meant to be a cash job, or a cheap job, or mates rates or whatever then the work has to be accepted. After all OP is managing the work and will have stood over the tiler and inspected the work in progress. By complaining now OP is largely accepting they have failed in their duties. If they have failed it is hard to put too much blame on the tiler.

This is pretty funny. The work is accepted and tradesman paid, I trust him to come back as he's a pretty pleasant bloke and its not worth risking a bad review on his business page over some snagging work. Do you stand over the shoulder of your tradesmen watching everything they do? I viewed his portfolio, told him to set out properly and avoid slither cuts, and mitre all tile trims, showed him areas to do, sent him photos of what I expect, and left him to it as if im going to stand over his shoulder I might as well do it myself. What more duties do I have as a customer ?

Either way I seriously think there is some over criticism here, they are cheap b&q metro tiles which have deviation in size and grey grout highlights any defects more in my opinion, granted some cuts are not great, overall the look is decent in my opinion and I have had lots of work done on different houses over the years from £400 a day tradesmen to £100 a day tradesmen - you can just never guarantee what your going to get when employing someone new. This guy falls in the middle of that price bracket, hence the work probably reflects.



I'm not moaning, if he sorts out the bad cuts I'm cool, I just wanted to make sure I was right in pointing out the bad cut.



More pics for perspective:
I think once the walls are painted, some minor tidying up of grout, and sorting of the bad cuts, the walls will look pretty decent.

Doozergirl

He has set it out badly. He was never going to get a tiny nibble of a cut into the gap where the next tile should start.
I'd buy some silicon sealant in white and tidy it up so there isn't as much grout on show. Run it up the corners of the wall too, to hide the wobbly cuts. The grey grout isn't forgiving anything.

Hoploz

If only it had been white grout it wouldn't have shown up as much. Shame. But if he does a little tidying up it'll soon be forgotten about. You don't spend your life looking at the tiles, if anything majorly noticeable is rectified.

But white grout next time maybe.

And I wouldn't say the silver trims go very well where the tiles are beveled but I haven't ever used metro tiles so what do I know.

Robby1988

Personally, I would be disappointed with that having shelled out for a pro, although probably not to the point i'd exert energy arguing with somebody who doesn't seem to care. It looks alright enough so not worth the agro, once the rooms finished and furnished you'll hardly notice it.

Pay him, wash your hands of him and move on.

daveyjp

Its all 'awkward'.

How difficult is it to measure the half way point of a wall and start there with a full tile so cut tiles are even at each end?

The wall by the door being case in point.

Another check for a tiler who knows what he is doing is what they use for internal corners and adjacent to door reveals. A tiler who knows what they are doing will use sealant to allow for differential movement.

An amateur will use grout which will drop out after a few months.

southcoastrgi

Well I'm gonna buck the trend, it doesn't look a bad job to me & as for the setting out not one comment has taken into account that he has set out from the center of the hob which on this wall is exactly the correct way to do it, that is the focal point & if the tiles didn't match the wall cupboards space it would look terrible, I blame the kitchen fitter for the tile cut because either there should be enough gap on the lighting pelmet or it should have been fitted afterwards, personally I would have cut it so you had a full tile

phill99

usman330 wrote: »

stop jumping to conclusions based on my name.

Sorry? What on earth are you on about? Someone has got a serious chip on their shoulder.