What's this 'fashion' for tiles with hideous, old fashioned patterns all about? Suddenly they're everywhere. Gauranteed to bring on a migraine.
You mean the Moroccan and Turkish style designs?What's this 'fashion' for tiles with hideous, old fashioned patterns all about? Suddenly they're everywhere. Gauranteed to bring on a migraine.
The bloke who did ours earlier this year made a decent fist of tiling and i've no complaints...but his woodwork left a lot to be desired and his plastering wasn't much better than mine. And the silly sod tanked the wall right out to the door, leaving no room to hang it back, so his spatial awareness was also questionable. Too fond of expanding foam, too, and wanted to fill a gap in the wall where the shower screen was to hang.
We had words and it was sorted with a minimum of fuss but most of the time some workers get away with sweeping it under the floorboards.
The blokes who did the room out when it was built did just that - no end of scrap wood and bits of plaster under there, so it can't be said to be a modern trait. It looked like the typical Friday-at-five job under there!
I wouldn't say the guys who did our bathroom were cowboys, just better at some jobs than others. Plumbing good; hanging a door, not good.The industry has always had cowboys. That's what you get in an industry when those who really don't know describe it as a semi skilled job. Like MPs and the BBC do
I wouldn't say the guys who did our bathroom were cowboys, just better at some jobs than others. Plumbing good; hanging a door, not good.
I wouldn't say plastering a wall is a semi-skilled job, either. People think these jobs look easy - until they try.
If he had the adjusted the gap, then the grout lines would have not matched the perpendicular wall (which they don't anyway).
Agreed, it would have taken him a couple of minutes to mix up some more.
That is subjective- I suspect that he has run the tiles level.
Even as a diy'er, this alone confirms he's a muppet. Personally, I'd cut your losses and wouldn't get him to do anything remedially. Do it yourself or if not your skillset, seek someone else. Keep this 'bathroom installer' well away.* The gap between floor and units is 195mm, the height of the plinth is only 180mm!
* First he claimed first that the floor was wonky, he got a length and pushed one end down to show the other end going up about 1cm (clearly if there is a small bump one end and you follow the line it will exaggerate it) I got the tape measure out and showed that the gap was +/-2mm along its length.