Tile job- should I ask for it to be re-done?

Tell the builder he messed up both jobs, u can live with the bathroom but not the other. Builder pays for tiles, specify white grout or whatever

Thats a brutal job. It's neither random nor a pattern

If the builder is acknowledging that the tiles were laid incorrectly , and your contract is with him, then I would just asked to have it done correctly. I assume you did not pay or hire the tiler directly?

That's an awful looking finish, it's up to the builder to sort it out. I'd also ask him were the tiles laid directly onto the OSB board as that's not recommended.

No competent tiler would ever doa random pattern with those tiles. They're always patterned.

That's very disappointing. It would drive me nuts too, every time I had to look at it.

If you explained what you wanted to the builder and he didn't pass that information on to the tiler, it's on him to fix it.

Him passing the buck onto the tiler by claiming "he thought you wanted a random pattern" is the builder trying to avoid responsibility.

Absolutely insist he fixes HIS mistake.

The only reasonable explanation.

The builders and contractors are charging high rates for work done, feel no guilt in asking them to re-do the job, including paying for materials.

That was a basic, clear instruction and they messed up, onus is on them to fix it.

the tile selection is awful also.

If redone pick a nice one

This is peak "you had one job".

Any half decent tiler would be ashamed of that.

Shoddy, lazy bit of tiling. The builder didn't accurately communicate your preferred layout to the tiler so he's at fault and should carry the cost for redoing the work (including all materials) the way you had specified and paid for it to be done. Otherwise it'll forever annoy you everytime you're using that space.

Similar thing happened to us regarding the floor levels when we were building our house . . thirty years on and those mistakes still irritate me nearly every day.

I feel lucky, any time we've been tiling, we've gone through where to start (to prevent very small offcuts wherever possible), what to do with the edges (strips, tiles, bevels, mitres), which grout to use where, and with big tiles, where the alignment should be (e.g. where the room has multiple levels, which wall has the full "starting" tile).

By doing that you are assuming all tradesmen are married and hetrosexual.

Far too many snowflakes would find that question offensive.

a gay tradesman wouldn’t have done such botched job. A far better eye for aesthetics..

"There would simply be no way that I would place eight tiles on the floor as a pattern for the whole job."

If I showed those 8 tiles to my 10 year old grandson and said, " There's only 3 colours, that's the pattern I want", he would know what to do.

Would you set out the whole floor for the tiler?

That's offensive to all the non gay tradesmen, well the snowflaky ones anyway.

and the gay ones, some of them probably have terrible taste.

And I'm sure there are plenty of tilers' spouses (gay and straight) who also have have terrible taste!

looks bad butdid you buy twice as many white tiles as the other colours when you bought the tiles ie. 50% white 25%blue 25%yellow because if you didn't he wouldn't have been able to follow your pattern

That's a fair point to make to the builder who instructed the tiler. It's not sensible to expect the customer to have to deal with the detail to the level of drawing out an entire floor plan of tiles - what'd be the point? The basic plan for the tiles was perfectly clear from the picture and I can't see what difference doing it all out on a PC would have made.

I agree with the posts above about the importance of starting points and cut-offs - but that's not what went wrong here.

Well done 👏👏👏