Tiler asking extra after finishing job for diamond pattern

[royaloakcarpentry]

Pay me £220 a day plus hotel and food allowance and I might do a stint in Yorkshire lol.

[big-all]

my god those other photos are awful
i did think the diamonds should line up round the corners but not knowing any difference said nowt
but those miters

sorry that should be well dont know obviously breaking the ends with pliers is a bit hit and miss so difficult to form an accurate angle

[happy handyman]

ROA?....I'm sure your worth it......but I don't think I can afford you.....mind you I'm a great cook....and we can provide you with good accommodation ........

[Wes]

Jesus Arambol That's super turd..

I too take back my post, and I've also lit a candle..

[big-all]

Jesus Arambol That's super turd..

I too take back my post, and I've also lit a candle..

the problem we had was the lack off detailed pictures and the "generally happy with the finish" comments

yes in hindsight or in the cold light off day or any other "saying " we can think off we can be wise

[Wes]

Agree BA Can't believe I didn't notice the tiles not matching up in the corner though in the first post..The bird sh!t covering my eyes must be thicker than the bird sh!t covering ROC's eye's

[dandan]

Your tiler must have titanium b*llocks to ask for more money after leaving the job looking like that

[arambol]

It's a nightmare. I'm so disappointed.

The dado and everything above it needs ripping off and redoing. I hope it can be salvaged? There's £450 worth of dado there :(

The guy that did it is a good builder and I've been more than happy with his other work (of which there has been plenty). I also have a guy who's acting as my project manager for the whole house refurbishment who put him on this job but clearly he shouldn't have. He's obviously not experienced in cutting the marble dado and laying the diamond pattern.

How much/ long should it cost to repair either in money or time? (minus the materials which I hope can be saved). To clarify it was £200 per square metre just for that small area if I paid the extra £520 on top of what I'd already paid. Not the whole area. What's a fair price per metre to repair this?

Thank you.

[wine~o]

I'd be looking at the tiler to pay for any remedial work, or if the tiler was subbing for the Builder, the Builder....

When you take on a tradesman, they have a duty of care to provide you with an acceptable standard of work...

I'll see if I can dig out a link to the actual legislation...


Edit..... link as promised. http://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/ ... -act-1982/

[southwood3]

You have my sympathy Arambol - I'd be gutted at that.

Very confused though why you felt able to say how pleased you were with the job in your opening post. Did you actually eyeball the job or did you assess it from a picture? Is this property in the UK?

[arambol]

Hi Southwood.....I posted before he'd finished. He finished Monday, but I didn't realise all the damage to the dado. He was finishing up and "siliconing" the edges on the last day and I though he'd also clean up and remove the excess grout from all the joints and it would look good. I didn't realise that the excess grout was actually trying to fill the damage.

Must admit I didn't notice the failure to wrap the tiles around the corner. My father did, but I can certainly see it now.

Then I didn't actually get a chance to look at in the light after he had finished. It was dark and there are no lights in the rooms yet. The tiles look good. They should, they were expensive. In the dark it looked lovely.

The property is in Spain. I live in the UK though.

[wine~o]

Ahhh Spanish Property, Obviously my link above is regards UK regs... whether there is an equivalent in Spain..or what Spanish "Tilers" (Ahem) think they can charge.....

[arambol]

Thanks anyway Wine-O :)

[haveagohero]

Unfortunately you will be very lucky if you can re-use much of what has to come off and there will be damage to the wall.

That standard of work is absolutely atrocious and whoever did that is certainly not a tiler! if it had taken him a week to do 6m2 alarm bells should have been ringing. You say you had a project manager overseeing the renovation, had he signed off the tiling work? if i was you i would be pulling him up about the tiling before the tiler is talked to.

There is an attitude of "tiling is easy" among some builders and this is a perfect example of that not being the case. I would have mitred the dado and the external corners of the main tiles and the bond should have carried on round the corner, the tiles are on two different levels for god sake!

This sort of thing makes me really angry! I would love to be doing a job like that instead of the bumpy whites i'm putting up at the minute and would have probably charged you a cheaper price that i am on the bumpies just because of the pleasure i would get out of doing the job!

pfft. rant over

[royaloakcarpentry]

As we are so busy at present I am not tiling on our jobs, it is being done by a tiler we use.

He showed me some pics yesterday of some diamond work he has just recently done. Then I showed him this thread lol.

I will get the pics off him and post in here so that people can see how it should be done, especially when a tile colout comes around an internal corner to an external corner by a door reveal and then into the door frame.