Can any tilers advise me? Serious issues with a tiler's work

Mickey666

Doozergirl said:

You never plan to lay a full tile into a corner.  You always plan for large cuts at the edges because walls are rarely, if ever, totally straight. How you lay the tiles out at the start is key to a good finish.  Our tiler spends a good hour or more working out where every cut will hit and checking where I'd prefer them. 

Your guy has laid a full tile to a corner and it's gone wrong from there.  It's a very basic,
obvious error that sends the whole room off.
 

This person wasn't qualified. 

You can ask him for whatever you like.  A bonafide tradesperson would fix a simple error with no questions asked, but that never started right, hence it will need redoing. 

What due diligence did you do? 
 

That has been my experience as well.  In fact, over the years I’ve watched many different trades and the ones that spend time thinking about the job first and planning it out tend to be the ones that do the best job.  It might look like little progress in the first few hours but it is time very well spent.  I’m no professional tiler but the tiling I have done was far better than shown in those photos.  I feel sorry for the OP having to sort out the mess because there’s bound to be an argument, but the work is really not acceptable.  I hope there was no payment up front.

k1rkyc

It’s very sad to see this. Have you already paid the tiler? Does he have a FB page with reviews? Have you seen any of his previous work? I’ve just had a bathroom re-fitted and the plumber spent quite some time planning where the cuts would go and asked me how I wanted the tiles laid out etc.
i really hope you can sort something out. I’m no expert but I don’t think it’s the tiles that are at fault here I’m afraid