Advice please, bathroom fitter has dot and dabbed tiles!
Hi all, I'm hoping you can help with some feedback, please
My parents are currently having a new bathroom installed, all stripped back to bare walls and floor.
The fitter has done/hasn't done some things that I'm 99% sure aren't good practice, but he has convinced my Dad it is fine.
I have only done Able skills basic tiling course, but I was soaking up info like a sponge, so maybe I'm wrong, but so far my research and gut says otherwise.
The biggest issue I have, is that he has dot and dabbed the tiles to the wall. 800x800 porcelain at 8mm thick. His excuse was that the wall wasn't level, which is no excuse really because surely he should have leveled the wall before tiling. I called him out on it, he told my Dad it is perfectly fine.
He then proceeded to dot and dab the tiles onto the new wall that he built, which presumably is flat and level. Although he has done it in ply, which to my understanding isn't a suitable substrate for a shower wall?
There is no tanking on the plywood shower wall or under the bath.
I then came back yesterday to find the bathroom floor is about 16-18mm higher than the hallway carpet floor, which means a massive lip.
To top it off, it looks like the floor has been dot and dabbed too.
Some tiles aren't lined up properly or grout lines are different widths. Not big discrepancies, but considering the size of the tiles and there are only 6 tiles laid, seems a bit pony to me.
I've attached some photos. As I said, I'm a beginner when it comes to tiling, so help/advice would be greatly appreciated.
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Hi all, I'm hoping you can help with some feedback, please
My parents are currently having a new bathroom installed, all stripped back to bare walls and floor.
The fitter has done/hasn't done some things that I'm 99% sure aren't good practice, but he has convinced my Dad it is fine.
I have only done Able skills basic tiling course, but I was soaking up info like a sponge, so maybe I'm wrong, but so far my research and gut says otherwise.
The biggest issue I have, is that he has dot and dabbed the tiles to the wall. 800x800 porcelain at 8mm thick. His excuse was that the wall wasn't level, which is no excuse really because surely he should have leveled the wall before tiling. I called him out on it, he told my Dad it is perfectly fine.
He then proceeded to dot and dab the tiles onto the new wall that he built, which presumably is flat and level. Although he has done it in ply, which to my understanding isn't a suitable substrate for a shower wall?
There is no tanking on the plywood shower wall or under the bath.
I then came back yesterday to find the bathroom floor is about 16-18mm higher than the hallway carpet floor, which means a massive lip.
To top it off, it looks like the floor has been dot and dabbed too.
Some tiles aren't lined up properly or grout lines are different widths. Not big discrepancies, but considering the size of the tiles and there are only 6 tiles laid, seems a bit pony to me.
I've attached some photos. As I said, I'm a beginner when it comes to tiling, so help/advice would be greatly appreciated.
Advice please, bathroom fitter has dot and dabbed tiles! for the Original Article on Tiling Advice Forum
