With all the information on the internet people still do this... buying the materials and placing them directly in the dumpster would be more environmentally friendly

do you have any pics before the demo?

Not sure what I'm looking at in the picts. Did they lay tile directly on plywood or mdf?

They also set some tiles directly on framing members.

‘‘Tis a shame because the install appears to be a nice one. Unfortunately this is how many start and how many end. Tragic that you spend your $$ and receive this as a result.

‘‘Tis a shame because the install appears to be a nice one. Unfortunately this is how many start and how many end. Tragic that you spend your $$ and receive this as a result.

I certainly hope this work wasn't performed by a tile contractor.

Looks like you married the right sister.

My price was to high. She saved herself about 8K from the stories we heard.

Tom

The redo is 10K.

Quote from: Cheese on October 24, 2017, 03:19 AM

‘‘Tis a shame because the install appears to be a nice one. Unfortunately this is how many start and how many end. Tragic that you spend your $$ and receive this as a result.

Take a closer look, I can see that the field tile grout lines (horiz.) are not aligned in pics 1& 2. 

In pic 3 the squares are not in the same plane as the rectangles above and below.  That strip of squares also undulates something terrible, I don't even need a straight edge to tell.    Hard to be certain from the pix, but I'll bet the corners are grouted also.

Though I must say the niches don't look half bad from here.

It indeed is a sad state when consumers are blinded by cost or slippery talk or both.  I have gone up against this type of "competition" too many times to count. Hopefully there can be some legal recourse to soften the blow.  Unfortunately (at least in MN) there isn't enough statutory protection.  Hopefully this will resolve itself quickly.