Tiles laid/cut unclearly

  • Erstellt am 2019-12-16 20:10:33

danixf

2019-12-16 20:10:33
  • #1
Hi,

we are just about to hand over and after several discussions on site the tiling work is done. In the guest bathroom and utility room, except for minor details, there are no complaints. In the other bathroom, however, it's a disaster from our point of view. They had to start over 3 times because they made mistakes, and in the end, they knocked down the entire bathroom in one day. First, the wrong tiles were installed, then the offsets were not maintained, and now this. Tomorrow I have a meeting with the head of the tilers and our site manager. Unfortunately, I’m not quite sure what I have to accept and what not. So a few additional opinions would be nice...

On the 3rd attempt, everything was grouted and the boss instructed the people on site that silicone should be used, for example between tile and bathtub – instead of removing tiles or doing anything else, an angle grinder was used. Partly, there are still residues from grouting to be seen.

By the way, these are by far not all the spots....





 

seat88

2019-12-16 20:30:13
  • #2
I'm not an expert, but it really looks very, very shabby. And I would say you can't just look away from that. There is a need for action on the part of the site management. Maybe Frank Elstner will also show up during the conversation and shout, "verstehen sie Spaß".
 

Curly

2019-12-16 21:39:23
  • #3
That has never been done by a trained tiler in their life, it looks awful.

Best regards
Sabine
 

Nordlys

2019-12-16 21:41:48
  • #4
Here, time pressure met with overwhelm and incompetence...
 

danixf

2019-12-16 21:58:23
  • #5
The curious thing is that the utility room / guest bathroom don't look anything like that. No visible cut edges or weird grout patterns... Oh man, tomorrow could be fun. I'm someone who doesn't need everything to be perfect and say it's just craftsmanship. But somewhere there is a limit for me. I don't even know how they want to fix all this without starting over. As mentioned, that's not everything.

The grout looks consistently catastrophic.
Visible cut edges on 10+ tiles.
The cutouts for the built-in shower fittings are so large that the cover plate isn't sufficient. The cover plate holds, but the cuts go 1-2cm beyond it.
Partial chipping of tiles that have been smeared with silicone.
Corners of the rails were knocked crooked with a hammer.
The slope does go "inside" the shower towards the center, but the very next tile has a slight slope away from the drain... Although I don't yet know if that is actually wrong. There are certainly tolerances...
 

11ant

2019-12-16 22:20:36
  • #6
The tiler was probably sick and his substitute accidentally did it correctly because he didn't know that his colleague has such a creative working style. That can happen sometimes
 

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