Hello everyone,
We are building with a general contractor, and the standard tiles offered are 30x60cm (12x24 inches). However, we would prefer a wood-look tile in the size 30x120cm (12x48 inches). We need to negotiate the additional cost with the tiler. We have now received the extra charge: the tiler is asking for €26.30 per m² (excluding VAT) for installation. I understand that it takes longer to lay these tiles, but €26.30 per m² (about €30 including VAT) seems quite expensive to me. The tiler also installed the screed.
Am I mistaken here?
Looking forward to your feedback.
We are building with a general contractor, and the standard tiles offered are 30x60cm (12x24 inches). However, we would prefer a wood-look tile in the size 30x120cm (12x48 inches). We need to negotiate the additional cost with the tiler. We have now received the extra charge: the tiler is asking for €26.30 per m² (excluding VAT) for installation. I understand that it takes longer to lay these tiles, but €26.30 per m² (about €30 including VAT) seems quite expensive to me. The tiler also installed the screed.
Am I mistaken here?
Looking forward to your feedback.
Hi,
I had some of the grout joints redone on both the floor and wall tiles, and the installers had aligned the "grain" of the wood-look tiles incorrectly in a few small corners. These were about 3 cm by 3 cm (1.2 inches by 1.2 inches) pieces, and you only noticed it after really looking closely a few times. However, I didn’t accept it.
The gap was just where the floor tiles meet the base of the bathtub. One of the walls must be slightly out of plumb; in any case, this gap opens up to about 8 mm (0.3 inches) over a length of 2 m (6.6 feet). No way to just fill it in, so we had to use a pressure washer for that.
One of the stainless steel corner strips was also installed slightly tilted in our case. It was vertical, but not flush with the tile surfaces—it leans about 5 degrees. I accepted a discount on that because I really didn’t want to have to retile half a wall just because of this.
Regards,
Andreas
Curly schrieb:
I’m also curious, what can still be improved after tiling?
Best regards
Sabine
I had some of the grout joints redone on both the floor and wall tiles, and the installers had aligned the "grain" of the wood-look tiles incorrectly in a few small corners. These were about 3 cm by 3 cm (1.2 inches by 1.2 inches) pieces, and you only noticed it after really looking closely a few times. However, I didn’t accept it.
The gap was just where the floor tiles meet the base of the bathtub. One of the walls must be slightly out of plumb; in any case, this gap opens up to about 8 mm (0.3 inches) over a length of 2 m (6.6 feet). No way to just fill it in, so we had to use a pressure washer for that.
One of the stainless steel corner strips was also installed slightly tilted in our case. It was vertical, but not flush with the tile surfaces—it leans about 5 degrees. I accepted a discount on that because I really didn’t want to have to retile half a wall just because of this.
Regards,
Andreas
andimann schrieb:
Some wall has to be slightly out of plumb; in any case, this gap opens up to about 8 mm (0.3 inches) over a length of 2 m (6.5 ft). No way to just fill it in—you’ll have to use a water jet to fix that.. Remaining piece sizes like these suggest “starting randomly on one side instead of calculating the layout beforehand.” Measurements should always be taken at several points, especially when it otherwise looks like it could nicely fit whole unit increments. Bricklayers are never watchmakers, and plasterers and screeders aren’t either. With joint widths of 3 mm (0.1 inches), even half a millimeter deviation near the joint is visibly noticeable.
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