Tiling, is this "good enough" from a pro?

[V8RX7]

I am, I suppose a DIY tiler.

But I am a DIY tiler because that looks like the majority of professional work I've seen.

I am far slower but my standards are far higher.

[Vanden Saab]

Wozy68 said:

£250 a day ....... to tile a wall, blimey I’m seriously in the wrong trade

Meh... £40 per metre, 10-15 metres a day... Who wants to work for a day rate...

[DoubleSix]

V8RX7 said:

I am, I suppose a DIY tiler.

But I am a DIY tiler because that looks like the majority of professional work I've seen.

I am far slower but my standards are far higher.

Amen to that!!

So fed up with shoddy trades I do most jobs myself these days. Here’s my foray into tiling/flooring










Not suggesting it’s perfect, but I hear far too many stories like the OPs!

Edited by DoubleSix on Thursday 18th April 17:55

[CoolHands]

I don’t think it’s too bad and I’d rather not mess up the wall board by having it all pulled back off if I was you. So I’d accept it and not worry too much.

[wombleh]

wormus said:

Is he registered blind? Perhaps he asked his Labrador to have a go.

I'm an amateur and I wouldn't have been happy had I done it like that, would have taken it off and redone to get it level. If it's done on board and dried then may not be very easy to do anything now .

[fouronthefloor]

It's not perfect but unless you did your homework and looked at some of previous work, you're really taking a stab in the dark with tradespeople.
Customers' standards differ, as do tradespersons' abilities.
Some customers don't know a bad job when they see it and others will pick holes to the smallest detail.
Trades see this as an excuse not to pay and that's where the disputes start.
Personally, I'd accept it but make it clear you're not happy and then put it down to experience.
If he offers to put it right then all well and good. If not, you can sleep peacefully knowing that he won't make the same errors with another customer

[CustardOnChips]

Not even close to good enough for a so called professional.

[Greendubber]

That's crap. I'm not a pro but I tiled the kitchen in our old place and did the ensuite in this house and it's much better than that.

Those cuts are crap, what did he use to make the cuts?

[PBDirector]

DoubleSix said:

Here’s my foray into tiling/flooring

Nice that

It different nowadays innit, with YouTube and all the ‘trade’ products being available.

I grew up thinking I wasn’t “handy”, but then I realised half of it was knowing that certain tools or products existed and the other half was knowing what to do. Screwfix/ YouTube job done.

[Wozy68]

Vanden Saab said:

Meh... £40 per metre, 10-15 metres a day... Who wants to work for a day rate...

fk a duck ...... fair play

[Teddy Lop]

V8RX7 said:

I am, I suppose a DIY tiler.

But I am a DIY tiler because that looks like the majority of professional work I've seen.

I am far slower but my standards are far higher.

I tiled my own bathroom too, but its was 50:50 work being fairly slow at the time and wanting aspects like mitred external joins and not wanting to be "told" by some grunt that I should be happy with a plastic strip.

Its not perfect (I'm hard on myself though) but I've seen far, far worse in the trade.

[kev1974]

I thought you were supposed to use that hard plastic slightly adhesive mesh stuff on the back of the mosaics to stop them "pushing in" to different levels and keep their fronts aligned with the main tile fronts.

That's what my tiler did anyway