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

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!

I wish you all the best.

Fortunately it wasn't my money and time at risk when I was involved with site work initially, but I soon learned that for all the professional garbage spouted some are in the job simply for the cash and the work is just an incidental to raking it in.

I have a local builder, or used to, now his son does my work. I would place them toward the top of the list of people I have worked with over the years. Still, all One has to do is ask anyone in the surrounding villages to get recommendations as to tradespeople .

They do control every job, I don't give or need to give detailed instructions.

I consider myself oh, so fortunate!

I'm not sure about builders incidentally, but I always look up new companies and services on Trustpilot. They seem to give a good idea of what to expect and look out for.

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 👏👏👏

Nice,

now all you need is a kickboard under that cupboard to hide that one out-of-place blue tile.

I'd say they're gonna put a bit of a kick-board on the bottom of that cupboard unit, so it doesn't matter as it won't be seen.

better but still not a great job. What’s that story with the 1 of tiles by the door?

He should have started with a full tile there and worked towards the units

Thanks OP. Seeing this job redone and looking great has calmed my OCD. (I can cope with the stray blue tile as it will be covered). I felt angry for you when I saw the botched job. There should have been no question or delay in it being redone and the tiler clearly was not experienced enough to do it. This was entirely your builder / contractors responsibility to fix. I'd say he was as shocked as you with the job. Maybe the tiler's references / work was not checked properly but it is reasonable to assume a tiler can cope with a pattern. As someone pointed out, a ten year old could see the pattern from what was laid out originally. @oneweb - well spotted. Maybe the tiler was trying too hard creatively.😃

He followed the pattern with three of the tiles but then not with the other two. Absolutely bizarre.

All he had to do was put the two on the left the other way around.

It's a million times better than the original job but still, to have something like that on a redo of a job the customer was already unhappy with is just not right.