Incorrect tile pattern installation - thoughts?
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Travertine in the 'versaille pattern of install' what do U think
Comments (4)I have Versailles pattern Ivory travertine in the kitchen and into breakfast room, sunroom, walk-in pantry, powder room, back hallway and laundry room. It's also in the main level bathroom floors. In the showers, we used the largest rectangle tile on the walls and in the guest baths, we used the smaller rectangle. It butts up to dark wood at the kitchen/great room and area outside main level guest bedroom/main level guest bedroom. For the lower level, I choice a very large Italian porcelain tile (24") and staggered the joints. Most think it's real stone too. You can see the Ivory travertine against lighter cabinets - fridge section and laundry room. There is not much contrast between the two, so I don't know if this would bother you or not. If my entire kitchen were off white/cream, I would have gone with a slightly darker flooring in order to have more contrast. Hope this helps. Allison Here is a link that might be useful: house tour...See MorePenny round tile with incorrect grout
Comments (22)Tell your installer he owes everyone here for tryin to help him out of a jam!! LOL Well, everyone but me. He did an excellent job installing the tile, too. Penny rounds aren't all that easy to keep from seeing sheet lines, etc. Seriously, if you want to change the color, a grout colorant is the best way to go. Not only will it change the color to what you want, but it'll also make it much easier to keep clean, being that it's a one part epoxy coating that won't allow the dirt to get into the pores of the grout. For all intents and purposes, it'll permanently seal the grout....See MoreChopped Limestone - Incorrect pattern layout
Comments (10)A few questions.... (1) Is this a tract home? My husband and I just closed on (and moved in to) our production/tract house, and let's just say that a lot of forgiveness and expectation adjustments are required when building a tract home. :-) Skilled labor varies A LOT between houses, even if the same materials are used. We got really lucky with the tile guys, but with the brick guys, not so much. (2) Was your request for a more uniform, horizontal layout done in writing? And not just emailed, but a signed document at the design center? If it wasn't annotated directly on the plans, then the request basically doesn't exist, and there's nothing you can really do. (3) Did the same builder do both houses, yours and the neighbor's? (My subdivision is a mix of three different builders, which is why I ask, and they all have slightly different materials they use.) (4) Buff mortar was paid for, but what was the standard? Gray? Gray was the standard on our brick, but they used taupe in most places (perfectly fine with me; I hate gray), with gray in some areas. And they even used clear caulk along a huge seam where they should've used mortar. My husband will be fixing that himself. Anyway.... The pattern on the neighborhood house looks very different than what y'all picked out at the design center, to my eyes -- the "inspiration" house has a few vertical stones; the sample board has none, and has what looks like a random tan bit of color. Admittedly, I'm not seeing the "swirls" you mentioned, lol. It's so darn hard to pick exterior cladding based on those itty bitty samples they have at design centers, I totally know! Our first brick selection suddenly wasn't available a month after we picked it, and we had to select something else... Looked at a new board (technically a brick that wasn't available in our neighborhood), looked at photos of completed houses, looked at houses in real life... And our brick *still* looks different than anything we saw. *shrug* But it ended up growing on me, and now I really, really like it. My husband and I have resigned ourselves to doing a bit of work on our own. Recaulking, re-mortaring, repainting... The list goes on. I don't blame our superintendent/foreman, because the poor soul had 18 houses he was responsible for, and 3 or 4 closing the same week as ours. He is overworked, and probably underpaid, so the correct folks to yell at are the guys sitting at Corporate wearing suits and ties... Not the guy wearing jeans and steel toe boots who has to juggle a million things and have everything done in 3-4 months. :-)...See MoreNeed advice-contractor installed hexagon tile with incorrect pattern
Comments (31)@thatsmuchbetter @klem1 This wasn't about shopping for a certain price point at all. I wasn't looking to hire cheap, I was looking to hire "good". That being said, this is a small 1940's cottage, not Versailles we are talking about. I hired a contractor who seemed capable of doing a good job and ended up with a bit of a mess on my hands. I have since had two professional tile installers (both with good references, etc.) come out and tell me two different ways in which they would fix this problem. One said remove and start over, the other said tile over it. Hence, my reason for asking Houzz's opinion. I appreciate what both of you have offered. I feel confident now that the floor "should" be removed and I know that I will feel much better having a separate tile installer do the job, instead of letting the original contractor attempt to re-do it....See Moresmitrovich
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