Okay to the drama I have been talking about,
When we hired our dry-waller who is also a handy man of sorts we were told by his wife how picky he was when they were tiling their home. I was taking so long because he was such a perfectionist. Okay we say we need help with some tiling because Brian and I are consumed with trim right now.
His drywall work is the best you will find but he is not a whiz at tiling.
The first bathroom looked okay from the door but because he had the tile saw in there and it was really dirty I just looked in the door. I guess I should have gone in to take a good look because what a mess.
Because he did not leave the spacers in and he tiled the height of a wall all with large tiles within a day they began to move and over the next day they are now pretty much ALL off plum. Corners do not match and some have large grout lines while others almost no grout line. Also tiles stick out from the wall.
He also stacked the tiles on the back wall and put a brick pattern on the ends, REALLY????? Also something you don't immediately see when you walk by.
In this bathroom we will put on some grout and use it for a while and in a year or so we will have to rip all the tiles off the wall and start over again. It just cannot be saved.
The shower he started we had to get him to take all the tiles off the wall and we will have to scrape as much mortar off the walls as we can the re-level the walls and do it ourselves. This one we got to in time.
It was not easy talking to him as he is a very large man who talks like he is a real tough guy but he was completely silent for the longest time. He was very upset but we have spent too much time and energy on this for it not to be done right.
E/B
When we hired our dry-waller who is also a handy man of sorts we were told by his wife how picky he was when they were tiling their home. I was taking so long because he was such a perfectionist. Okay we say we need help with some tiling because Brian and I are consumed with trim right now.
His drywall work is the best you will find but he is not a whiz at tiling.
The first bathroom looked okay from the door but because he had the tile saw in there and it was really dirty I just looked in the door. I guess I should have gone in to take a good look because what a mess.
Because he did not leave the spacers in and he tiled the height of a wall all with large tiles within a day they began to move and over the next day they are now pretty much ALL off plum. Corners do not match and some have large grout lines while others almost no grout line. Also tiles stick out from the wall.
He also stacked the tiles on the back wall and put a brick pattern on the ends, REALLY????? Also something you don't immediately see when you walk by.
In this bathroom we will put on some grout and use it for a while and in a year or so we will have to rip all the tiles off the wall and start over again. It just cannot be saved.
The shower he started we had to get him to take all the tiles off the wall and we will have to scrape as much mortar off the walls as we can the re-level the walls and do it ourselves. This one we got to in time.
It was not easy talking to him as he is a very large man who talks like he is a real tough guy but he was completely silent for the longest time. He was very upset but we have spent too much time and energy on this for it not to be done right.
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| What you see when you just walk by. |
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| But this is the end of the shower. a different pattern. |
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| See how some of the grout lines are large some almost not there. |
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| What a mess. |
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| At least we can do it right later. |
E/B
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