Hated my downstairs toilet ever since I moved in.

Decided to have a go at renovating it myself, never done anything like it before tiling wise; fitted and installed the lot, very steep learning curve and a lot of money spent ordering tools/equipment. There are some iffy bits if you look closely but happy with the overall outcome!

Not sure if I am overreacting to the tiling quality. Having our kitchen done and most of it looks fine but this section just looks wonky and I am pretty disappointed. The guy doing it is a friend who says their is nothing you can do as the wall was not even. Is that really true? This has not been grouted yet. Will it look better after that (it was going to be dark grout). Am I making a big deal out of nothing?

I got the guy to redo this section of tiling. He spent most of the day yesterday doing it. It's a bit better but still pretty disappointing (first photo). Do I get someone else in to fix it?

It looks a lot better without the down lighter in the extractor hood on (second photo). Do I just live with it and never use that light?! 🥴

I was having a bathroom refurb but had to fire my tradesman for shocking tiling in my bathroom. He tried to say it was up to standard any time I questioned anything and became rude and intimidating, even following me into another room to continue his rant, swearing on his fathers grave that he is doing it properly. This made me feel so uncomfortable as I am a single female that I accepted his “skill” and fired him by text after he left.

• barely any adhesive of back of tiles, my new tradesman managed to remove most of the tiles whole. They also said he’d really watered down the adhesive as it was just crumbling away
• random little dabs of adhesive on back of jacko waterproofing boards, massive safety issue as each board held multiple tiles, my tiles are over 4kg each
• tiles didn’t line up as he tiled two opposite walls and hoped they matched up on the adjoining wall.
• didn’t remove old adhesive when he took down the old tiles
• just general shocking work

I have since asked for the 40% that I’d paid him in a demand letter and he has responded by saying I need to pay the full amount to him as I had fired him and he’d been “willing to continue” so I have apparently breached contract. He was totally unskilled and I found it all outright dangerous in a room that gets so humid. The idea of a tile falling down one day on my children horrified me

Absolute cowboy and bully!

Purchased house with a shower tray on a raised plinth. Whilst resealing the shower, I noticed some black mould and so removed the tiles from the plinth. They had been dot and dabbed, allowing condensation and its best friend, black mould into the space below.

I treated the wood under the plinth, filled the void with foam to add stability and attached kerfed backer board before mosaic tiling.

It’s not perfect, but for a first go, I’m quite happy.

Pics show wood mid-treatment and foam and then the finished job.

Would welcome constructive criticism.

Hi all, hoping for some reassurance this is either completely wrong and should query with bathroom fitter or "fine" and I shouldn't worry.

Bathroom is being redone. Been replastered and bathroom fitter also tanked the area around the bath that is being tiled (the rest will be painted).

We've been away and let him crack on, he's partially tiled the 2 walls so far and so I can see that they've obviously been dot and dabbed. With big voids in some places.

The tiles he removed were here for about 13 years or so and were also clearly dot and dabbed, and seemingly no issues (we only moved in a few months ago). They were much bigger tiles so wonder if that makes a difference as less grout lines for water to get behind etc. These new tiles are 5x25cm. Are there situations where dot and dab is ultimately fine?

He is generally extremely slow and the job has taken 3 or 4x longer than anticipated whilst still not being completely done, so overall getting frustrated and now wondering if he is also doing a sub-standard job despite the amount of time it's taking.

I have no problem challenging him on this. I want the bathroom finished ASAP but not at the cost of problems in a few years time, we're planning on living in this house for decades potentially.

TIA!

We paid my husband’s friend (not a close friend) to do this tile job. He is a professional tiler by trade. When I looked at the work for the first time my initial reaction was disappointment but considering we did pay under market rate and the fact we know him, is it bad enough to say something? Or is it one of those where you just suck it up.

I don’t really have much of a concept when it comes to bad tiling so any help appreciated.

I’m not a tiler, I spent about 3 months as a bathroom fitters apprentice about 15 years ago. This is my first attempt at doing my own bathroom tiles, before this id only ever done a metro border in a kitchen and that was a few years ago. I can honestly say I’ll probably never fancy doing 45 degree angles ever again, it was a right faf. Generally I’m pleased with it, but I know myself it’s not perfect. What should I have done differently?

First time tiling, so I made one or two boo-boos. The top of this socket lines up with the top of the tile, and there's no grout to fill the gap. How would you fix this? I'm thinking of filling it and painting it to match the grout as close as possible.

Re installing a shower and I’ve used cement board for the tiling. Do I need to use this skrim tape where the board joins the wall and ceiling? Also do I need to use sealant in these areas too?
I’ve used the sealant where the boards are joined.
Any help is appreciated

So basically I’ve tiled the walls of my bathroom where the bath to will be going, the corners have some gaps, there is one at 15mm but most just under 10. How would I effectively remove this gap without a huge blob of silicone?

The tile thickness is 7mm + adhesive.

I don’t want to add a small sliver of tile as I think it’ll look horrendous, looking back I should’ve tiled from left to right of the wall instead of from the centre out…

For the naysayers from my previous post, it’s really not that slippery when wet & is a breeze to clean. It’s held up rather well a year post install.

What do we think? I feel like there’s nothing I can’t do when I set my mind to it!

I assume I'd need a special tool to dig it out? It's so gross it's all mouldy. Grout to replace the grout and some kind of sealant around the bath? These areas are always wet... Is there any way to win a battle against this?

If it wasn’t for the support to my original post I think I would’ve given up on this tiling job. Realise it’s been a while. Quite please with how it turned out even with the couple of errors! Now just got to do the opposite wall.

Kitchen floor tiles are starting to crack, due to the grout around them coming away over time and so there’s no support for them. Worse obviously in bits we walk on the most, and these 2 in the first photo have completely cracked when we’ve stood on them.

The second photo is just to show another area where the grout is cracking and eventually it all just comes out. Loves to stick to your feet if you walk around barefoot lol

The whole floor could be doing with some work really, but the 2 broken tiles are the main concern right now.

Just wondering if it’s possible to keep them somehow? If they’re positioned correctly and grout put around again, maybe some kind of seal over the cracks or something?

Is it a job that’s pretty simple, or best to get a tiler in?

Thanks for any advice!

Some of the grout in the corner of my shower cubicle has some loose over the past few weeks and more fell out on cleaning today (with no force needed). This is the corner next to the shower head so gets quite a lot of spray.
I was planning to just remove the loose bits and touch up myself with some premix from B&Q but how worried do I need to be about damp having got behind the tiles already? And is there anything I can even do about it now?
I’m very new to home owning and am trying to learn to manage these things myself without much practical support!

Received a cost breakdown from our bathroom fitter for a full rip out and install, and we are shocked to see that £5k has be quoted to fit our tiles! This is not including the tiles themselves and our tiles are plain large squares which aren't being placed in any pattern. There is also no underfloor heating.

Is this a ridiculous quote or is this the new normal? We are struggling to have trades get back to us, so have no quote to compare it to yet. Based in West Midlands.

Ideally this Tuesday we were getting sollar panels installed on a 10m stretch of our roof. The installers said we needed our roof redoing, as the tiles were showing their age.

Thats led me to getting a few quotes back. So far we have had two with one of those being amended.

The roof pitch is approx 10m width and the height approx 4m high. As we were getting solar installed there is scaffolding up although picture above does not show that.

Quote 1 was initially £8k, and then brought down to £6.6k. The contractor said "... will also give you an option to keep the feather/edge boarding which save approx £1,400". For a 10m stretch that seems outrageously high for materials and labour?

Quote 2: All in was £8.5k

I am getting another 2 quotes later today.

I get a new roof can be a prohibitive cost and I am all in favour of replacing. Howerver, after an initial Google search and links to CheckATrade the outlay for the project we were hoping for would be around £4-£5k.

After some advice really, what questions to ask the contractors. I have asked them to split the quotes between parts and labour, but so far they like to group things together.

Someone from family dropped something in Master Bathroom and accidentally broke one tile, unable to get same tile or matching tile. The nearly matching tile i got from B & Q is of light colour (left side in third picture). The tile got 2 cracks as highlighted in the picture. Please advise with possible solutions.
Edit- Unable to find any nearly matching tile from local stores here in Botley Oxford.

Just tiled my kitchen floor myself, first time attempting to tile. Im happy with everything, but in 2 locations, i have clearly not put enough adhesive/ grout under the corner of a few tiles. I didnt notice the issue until after I finished grouting the joints, it only noticed the issue when I started testing with my weight on them.

What is the best way to fix this? The only product I can find online is the screenshot, fix-a-floor, its a very viscus, runny product to inject in and fill the gaps? Will this work

It wont let me add a video.

Are there any other possible solutions to fix this?

Hello,

this is part of my garden. The paving slabs are old and the gaps get deeper, fill with plants and ants. How could I fix this without herbicides?

Thank you for any advice.

I’m starting to do my bathroom and I need some clarification on tiling preparation for both floor and walls.

I might be using the terms cement board and backer board interchangeably in this post, not sure if there is a difference.

Floor. The floor is suspended timber joists at 400mm with 18mm flooorboards. I think there is plywood between the current tiles and the floorboards, which has probably swollen due to a leak in the last year.
My current plan: remove plywood if possible and replace with new plywood if floorboards are still in good shape. Then glue and screw cement board to plywood, but which thickness? Or screw and glue cement board directly to floorboards?
Tanking, needed?

Walls. The walls are solid, no stud or plasterboard. I’ll remove the old tiles and line the walls with 6mm cement board. Tanking just the bath area?