should I worry about putting a treadmill on the second floor?
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Comments (10)Rhetorical questions: If you have to cut a tile, why not cut it accurately? If the space to be tiled can't be measured accurately, then why not cut the tile slightly oversized then place and recut a time or two to get a proper fit? My comments? Your installation is okay for a first time DIYer, but it's certainly lacking considering it was done by someone getting paid to do it. The baseboard should have been pulled and the door trim undercut. Then the tile should have been set and the baseboard installed over the floor tile. Ignorance or apathy. Or both. There's no forgiveness for the slice in the corner bead. You don't "not see that" when you're setting it in place. Apathy. The bench installation isn't pretty, but who framed the shower and the bench? The tile can only be as good as the substrate it's going over. Accommodations can be made for slightly irregular framing when installing the tile backer board, even when tiling, but sometimes those on-the-fly adjustments depend on the framing and waterproofing used in the shower. Certainly the tile work could have been neater. Some of the visual will disappear after grouting with a tile-colored grout. That's not me giving the installer a pass. It's more me offering you a mental band-aid. In the end, when you set tile, YOU'RE responsible for the tile you set. No excuses. If a tiler is given an out-of-square shower to tile, he needs to bring it up before he unloads his tools. If the installer chooses to do a lousy job over lousy substrate? It's on the person installing the tile. The orientation of the floor mosaic? It looks like the bathroom floor tile hits the shower curb at a 45-degree angle, and the shower floor mosaic does the same. Or close to it. Did he try to make the grout lines of the shower mosaic align with the grout lines of the bathroom floor tile? As far as orienting the shower mosaic to the drain grate, the drain grate can be rotated 360-degrees, it is not a limiting factor. Built-in benches require attention to detail. I see minimal attention to detail in the finish surfaces of your shower, so the integrity of the bench is a concern for me. On these forums I've seen ugly substrate and absent waterproofing covered with drop-dead gorgeous tile installations. But seldom have I seen a tiler do meticulous detail work on the substrate and waterproofing and then go on to cover it up with a lackluster and sloppy tile installation. So like millworkman in his earlier post, I am concerned about waterproofing. Especially when I see a built-in bench. My conclusion? I'd ask about the waterproofing. If the bench and shower were properly waterproofed? You have Schluter products in the bathroom. Did he Kerdi the shower and the bench? Talk about the grout job. That it needs to be good, it can't be sloppy. You need the grout done well to pull this job together. If after all that talk you want to continue with this guy? It's a less-than-average tile installation. It's not gorgeous. It's not horrific. If you want an easy out, I'd have him replace the sliced Schluter corner beads. I'd deduct a bit to have shoe molding added to the baseboard, then painted. On the flip side, if there is inadequate waterproofing on the bench and in the shower, then it's a tear out. Leaky benches are just horrible....See MoreRon Natalie
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