Pic of the WORST tile job?

[ceramictec]

Customer wanted me to do a stacked slate on the kitchen bar front.
He sent me a pic and said he wanted the end wrap done like his neighbors.
I told him ok, I have a chainsaw I can cut the tile with also.

[smifwal]

[Karls tile Inc]

Thats a rustic cut!

[jSTile]

Tile on tile

[KenMif]

Sink and tile job!

[jerrymlr1]

I've seen some bad work on this thread but I think we have a winner here. At least for the month.

[Kman]

I don't know what the problem is. Once a fellow takes a router to those edges it'll look fine.

[John Bridge]

That sink embedded into the tile job takes me back more than a few years. When I started in the trade that's how we did all of them.

[smifwal]

I built these showers a couple of years ago for a GC friend of mine in a flip house he was working on. Flooded waterproofed ready for tile though I didn't put in any niches. He said he would have one of his guys do the tile. He is finally getting close to getting it ready to sell and boogered up the carpet and asked me to come fix it. I have more pictures but I ran out of slots but I think you get the picture, pun intended. They put the tile right over the plywood and so on.

[Tool Guy - Kg]

Does his tile guy occasionally visit Tampa to do a little chainsawing tile work close to Ceramictec?

[smifwal]

I was thinking the same thing when Brian's post was at the top of the page. He must be a traveling tile guy, next we will see him in California

[Karls tile Inc]

The old grout for bullnose trick. Never gets old!

[smifwal]

He tried to do the carpet, he had all the tools and the basics just lacked the detail work. I told him if you insist on doing your own carpet then we need to have a lunch workshop. He said I don't need that I have you, I said well then you need to let me start from the beginning not you have it shot and now you want me to fix it . He agreed. And on Friday we will have a come to Jesus moment about the tile work being done on his houses

[ss3964spd]

And that drain isn't a come-to-Jesus moment for him?

[smifwal]

I forget to leave the grates when I left, and told him I would get them to him asap, then his son did me dirty on a business deal so I hung on to the grates until that got sorted out. They had no experience with this style of drain and went ahead and tiled the shower floor before I gave them to him. Yes the tile looks like shit but, but someone will think it looks great(like Brian's neighbor) I know that it won't leak, where they put the niches in is anyone's guess. The shower they built down stairs with a bench and a window in is surly a whole nother story.


He is having a tough go of things ( with the quality of work his clowns do ,I can see why) but I didn't have the heart to kick him while he is down. All I can do is stay after him to let me do his tile from here on out. Though he is about a hour away from me and I am not sure I want to. That is why I built the shower for him to tile, but I had no idea that his guys did horrible tile work. I have never seen anything they have done until now. It is pretty sad that this kind of work even exist and that someone would pass that bag of turds on to someone else. But maybe he has never seen a quality installation and thinks that this is how it should look