I meant £100 a day is going rate for tradesmen here, now would you stop going off topic when you clearly do not know what you are talking about.
Would you be happy with this tiling?
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I meant £100 a day is going rate for tradesmen here, now would you stop going off topic when you clearly do not know what you are talking about.
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No you said the going rate was £8.30 an hour. You were quoted £150 for two and a half days labour. That's £8.30/hour. Its not off topic its extremely on topic. You pay peanuts you get monkeys.
That was a typo in my original post and I then clarified that it was a day and half in a post after that and more like £15 per hour.
As mentioned £15/hour is still cheap for a good tradesman. Besides its still shoite even for £15/hour. Yea some grout will help but those joints that don't line up at all will never look right. I'd sack him and cut your losses. Or give him the option to redo them.
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I didn't get your math..
If you're saying 100 a day is the rate, then your job is either ONE and a half days, or its 250 quid
FWIW, I didn't get FMT's math either - 2.5 days is 20 hours, and 150 quid divided by 20 is £7.50/hr - even worse
Does he actually claim to be a skilled tiler? Or just an odd job man? Is he foreign at all? (That makes me sound really racist doesn't it! But maybe he's not familiar with our type of tile spacers or something)
Anyway it looks awful. If you let him finish the job like that, you are sure to regret it every time you look at it. You could ask him to rectify it, but from the standard so far it seems unlikely that he would be capable of doing it any better a second time around. Tricky. On the one hand I would feel guilty about not paying him anything, but on the other, the work is not worth anything. :S
Anyway it looks awful. If you let him finish the job like that, you are sure to regret it every time you look at it. You could ask him to rectify it, but from the standard so far it seems unlikely that he would be capable of doing it any better a second time around. Tricky. On the one hand I would feel guilty about not paying him anything, but on the other, the work is not worth anything. :S
I was being kind and working on the assumption of a 37 hour week and on that basis it would 18 hours.
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That second set of pics, that corner joint is rubbish and should be broken out. There is not enough room to get grout in the joint right in the corner. I have just dealt with some tiling like this in my son's shower cubicle. The corner non joint leaked like a sieve. We had to put on an external filet of silicone to fix it.
NOTE TO ALL READERS :- Never tile right off any surface (kitchen surface, door frame, tiling etc.), you must leave some decent room for grout or silicone goo. A wide grout joint in a corner, say up to 6mm, does not look too bad if finished off properly.
Frank
NOTE TO ALL READERS :- Never tile right off any surface (kitchen surface, door frame, tiling etc.), you must leave some decent room for grout or silicone goo. A wide grout joint in a corner, say up to 6mm, does not look too bad if finished off properly.
Frank
has he got to supply the battens?
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