Get the stairs retiled and now the step is too high

Hello everyone,

I had my stairs retiled yesterday. I wanted to do it myself at first, but Han is currently too busy. So the tiler did the stairs yesterday and when I wanted to close the front door at the end, it wouldn’t close anymore. So he "messed up". He then quickly ground down the edge of the tiles with a grinder. Now the door does close somewhat, but it can’t be locked because it apparently still sticks. He wants to take another look today, but it certainly won’t look better because of that. The edge already looks not so great now. The rest looks good. In the morning, he told me that tiling is not only his profession but also a hobby and that’s why it always looks better with him than with others. Silly talk... I always get skeptical about such things. He sealed under the tiles with Elastogum. Then there was a storm yesterday and it rained heavily on the freshly laid tiles at noon. I hope that doesn’t cause any damage. I mean, it’s not his fault, but I still hope the fresh tile adhesive wasn’t loosened because of it.

Otherwise, I’m curious what khr thinks about it. Can it be saved somehow? Tearing everything off and doing it again would also be bad. I think I will ask him to give me a price

Hi,

but it's clear that the tiles have a certain height and that the stairs may need to be sanded down beforehand if necessary

but it's clear that the tiles have a certain height and you might have to grind down the stairs beforehand

You said it. I don't know how well it would have gone because there was a very crumbly drainage concrete underneath. But I wasn't there the whole time anyway. I just made him aware that the height would be tight, but he said he had measured everything.

That is completely rubbish. The tiles outside are higher than inside?? The water will constantly run in when it rains. For me, there is a kind of threshold that is supposed to prevent that.

Water keeps running in when it rains

Yes. I had read that too. However, the threshold before was also flush with the tiles, and nothing happened there in the last 25 years. Therefore, I assume that nothing should happen here either. There is also a kind of cover at the bottom of the door that will probably help (see photo). Since it is covered, the situation will probably occur rarely. However, yesterday I had the situation that water reached the door, and luckily nothing got inside.
At least now the door closes again.

that's not a huge area either, take down the tiles, sand it, and then put them back on