Armadillo Tiling strives to offer quality at a reasonable and competitive price but when considering your quotations against any one job note that the most expensive quotation may or may not guarantee the highest quality work, but buying cheap tiling services is unlikely to make economic sense in the long run and probably won't do you any favours.
The consequences of a poor tiling job can be traumatic and heartbreaking.
On our travels we have seen and been asked to correct truly awful tiling jobs, some real horrors. Don't get caught out and always agree beforehand...
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The consequences of the substrate to be tiled ie. what will be the effect of that uneven wall or floor?
Does that mean I can expect lipping of the tiles and is this acceptable or do I really need to skim or level first, or re-surface them altogether?
Grout lines should be even and straight within reason.
Where exposed cuts are made, especially around extruding pipework or pedestals / basins, then these should not be left as rough cut but smoothed off and be within reasonable tolerance.
That there will be no slivers of tile within the area to be tiled or, where this would be unavoidable, then the reasons explained before tiling commences and alternative layouts considered if required.
Under normal circumstances there should be no need for any tile to be cut less than 1/5 of it's full width.
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Left: An example of a bathroom floor laid over the original floorboards and without boarding over with marine ply first. The tiles are lipping and the grout lines are unecven. This floor was actually less than a year old, the centre tiles were all in the process of "popping" and some of the side tiles were cracked.
Right: A bath / shower wall showing the unattractive effect produced when using slivers of tile in a corner.
In corner situations the ideal is to produce the effect of a full tile wrapping around the corner ie. the width of both cut corner tiles would add up to approximately a full tile width. Whilst this ideal is not always possible a compromise can usually be reached without resorting to slivers on both walls.
In this case the reason for the slivers was poor planning symptomatic of a rush job.
Left: An example of rough cutting around an exposed bathroom soil pipe again, symptomatic of a rush job with little concern for the final finish.
All exposed cuts around pipes such as this or typically radiator pipes should be neat and smoothed.
