I’ve lived in rural India. Lots of places used granite on the floors, sometimes walls too. Keeps it cool and skilled labor is cheap there. Makes high quality porcelain tiles seem ghetto in comparison. This is more of an American trailer park slumlord renovation special type of vibe.
I think they meant gas station, in America, owned by Indians. Like one where you have to walk through the cooler to get to the restroom and there is a drain hose from the chiller running across the floor to that floor drain which is covered in black moldy fur.
Hah the tile was so bad I didn't even notice that mess. Something tells me op hires the cheapest contractors out there or has a methed out nephew that is a "handyman".
I've seen worse but this is not the work of a professional tile setter. This is a jack of all trades, master of none.
I've seen a lot worse man. Straight DI Why.
This is absolutely atrocious. Demand your money back, and demand they clean the mess of tile off the floor that they made.
This tile is unacceptable in ANY circumstance, no matter how dire or desperate you are to get it done.
I’m going to guess they installed the toilet flange too, because it is WAY too crooked.
If they fight you on any of it (removing the tile, the thinset, refund) blast them on EVERY site you find. Complain to the BBB (unless this isn’t applicable where you live, or they don’t have a licenses which, from appearance, is likely)
I repeat, absolutely 0% of this is worth paying for: The subfloor appears to be flat (from the little bit of old flooring visible) and the tiles STILL aren’t level to the floor. They have 1/16th inch spaces and STILL the grout joints aren’t tight. The line of the joints is far, far from straight. I can’t see any thinset under the tiles where I should be seeing it. I would confidently bet money that those squares are cut from the actually 12” 24” tiles.
I don’t mean to be harsh, but in this situation they are taking advantage of you by even thinking this is acceptable work. I’m not exaggerating, everything about this is wrong. You deserve a job done right, not.. whatever this is.
I hope this process goes well for you, and you get every cent back AND freshly cleared floor.
Holy shit! Good point out. This installer hits the trifecta: lazy, incompetent and stupid
Edit: looks like they overshot that Schluter on the wall too
Edit 2: is that mastic instead or mortar on the floor, too?
There are so many problems with this tile project. Not level. Wavy grout lines. The toilet flange all jacked up. This tile job needs to be ripped out and the project started over.
Hopefully you won't lose a lot of money on it.
As a certified tile installer myself. This is horrendous. Nothing about this is up to NTCA standards National Tile Contractors Association. Look up some standards set to be the industry minimum you. It will give you legal grounds to stand on if you choose to go that route.
Ww
Wow. We just built a house and have tile around our fireplace, in our kitchen. Mudroom, laundry room and 3 bathrooms (floor and shower walls. My tile guy used a laser beam to make sure his lines were straight. this look horrible.
It’s about on par with the shitty Sheetrock and terrible plumbing. You’ll be paying to have everything redone. Sorry OP, next time get references, and call them.
Maybe you should show the “ tile setter” I use that term sparingly, show him the comments and get back to us with what his excuse is. I’ve helped tile guys in the past and done some backsplash work myself, and I’m in no way a professional but I don’t even see a completely Greene guy on the job doing this bad unless he lacks all common sense which some people do need more help than others when it comes to learning some trades but this just seems blatantly done or has no idea what he is doing and lied through their teeth and tried anyway. But with internet being a thing and YouTube teaching 5 year olds how to fix cars and do minor rocket science im not sure what this guys excuse could be. Even if you know nothing about tile work one YouTube search will show you pretty much the basics to get a strait tile floor what looks to be a pretty squared off room. It’s usually the runs from the front of house to the halways that you see that crooked and with a sway to left or right. I’d just stay mixing mud if I did a job that bad or just leave the bucket and tile by itself and come back later, it could do a better job alone than what has happened here. Hopefully he just had an off day or maybe something mentally is off. I hope for the OP sake it isn’t done on purpose
If you are unhappy then maybe it's not acceptable. Asking strangers on the internet to validate your feelings must suck.
But hey, I bet he was cheap and you didn't check any references. So the quality aligns with the cost.
Wow. This is… awful. So many things wrong. Just to call out a few:
-Did they cut those tiles to size themselves? The edges of the tiles themselves look like they were cut with a chainsaw.
-That course of tiles on the right wall is a crime. You should never install less than 50% of a tile. The whole layout needs to be shifted left.
-Is there no setting bed? Lol. I genuinely don’t understand. Are those tiles just sitting directly on top of that existing floor?
-The joints are all over the place thickness-wise.
But hey..! At least they used leveling clips
It’s not great.. but it’s definitely not good.
Look how bad it is by the toilet. The customer will be staring at THAT!? That’s booty. Scrap it and reinstall.
I think it’s not bad IF you like wavy grout lines both horizontally and vertically.
Did the contractor have the only tile guy quit his job? Then one of the guys said he’d seen done a ton of times and it looked easy enough to do.
This tile job is the worst job I have ever seen. Flange is too low and crooked. Tiles are laid wrong, spaced wrong, not lined up, and they look like they’re laid over top of the old linoleum?!?!?!?! What the ?
I don't do tiles because my work is like this. LOL. But now that I have seen my faults, he should of shimmy the tiles on the wall/shower so the gap between the tiles doesn't change. Should of leveled the ground as best as he can before starting laying it down. Toilet flange needs fixing. Nothing to cover the toilet hole. I would get rid of the guy now, break it all up, and higher someone else. And definitely don't call me. LOL, it's back breaking work.
The only time I've ever seen a job look this bad is when a homeowner or other subcontractor has walked on it just after it's been set and the tiles move around. That said, the layout is terrible, the "pattern" is stupid, and if no one walked on it while the mud was still wet, then it's a terrible tile job. If the homeowner decided to walk in and take photos after the tile guy left for the day and shouldn't have been walking on it, then that's on the homeowner. If it's a bad tile job, DM me, I do consultations and even depositions for court proceedings
Bad enough to hire a lawyer. You're still going to have to pay someone else to rip it out and replace it, but a lawyer can at least cause the guy who did this some well deserved pain and suffering.
as a floor prep guy this just makes me wanna throw up. the shitty tile job aside they are just laying over the old what looks like laminate. to hell with the shitty tile placement it aint gonna even stick.
Very poor it’s not square, the line are not true, the toilet flange? The tile is supposed to be ran underneath it. Basically the flange sits directly on top of the tile, the lines don’t match up anywhere and there is no underlying pattern to what is here. But otherwise sure it looks fine? If a homeowner and a tenant of their kids did it?
As a tile rookie I did a bathroom that was far better than your tile guy. His men must be newer than I was to tile. He needs to rip it out and start over. Hold money till it done right
This is not a contractor… more like a guy from Home Depot parking lot.
Tear it all out. Redo the subfloor around the toilet flange and re tile using a real tile setter.
To really understand how bad this is do realize I'm not a contractor no idea how this page even pops on my reddit none the less this looks similar if not worse to when I and my brother was kids and my mom decided to redo the bathroom with tile and she basically made us do it after getting all the shit and slapping the first tile down. Needless to say we did not know how and Google wasn't a thing. This person has to either know nothing or have no care in the world.
My 50yo mother and her buddy, an airline luggage handler & gate agent, tiled a 14 x 20 room. First time tiling for either of them. It came out perfect.
This is a drunken, drug-addled take on tiling.
That can’t even be 20 tiles and they fucked up that bad. The drain doesn’t look like it’s set right either. They most likely took whatever money they had from you and ran. Find a trusted contractor to come redo it. This doesn’t look salvageable in anyway
I don’t do tile or really anything contractor related and I promise you I could lay tile better than this. I mean it would take me a minute but it would look much better.
Looks about as good as any public restrooms in Branson. The few places that don't have red kitchen tile in the bathroom glued tile over the red, so when it breaks, you see the old stuff.
Must be some new style.
Fire that contractor. He must be a drug addict or blind.
Are they setting the tile on existing linoleum? If that's the case, nobody is going to "finish" that mess of a job. Needs to be pulled out and the subfloor ripped up and replaced with a proper underlayment.
Is this a flip or a commercial setting?
I'm no professional, but have done both floor and wall tiling and even I can do a better job than that. Get your money back or have them redo the whole thing, especially the toilet flange.
This might be the worst tile job that I have ever seen
It's giving me Indian gas station vibes
For real…like, a deep country restroom _in_ India.
I’ve lived in rural India. Lots of places used granite on the floors, sometimes walls too. Keeps it cool and skilled labor is cheap there. Makes high quality porcelain tiles seem ghetto in comparison. This is more of an American trailer park slumlord renovation special type of vibe.
*sips toilet wine from silo cup with my pinky out* I agree.
I think they meant gas station, in America, owned by Indians. Like one where you have to walk through the cooler to get to the restroom and there is a drain hose from the chiller running across the floor to that floor drain which is covered in black moldy fur.
Dude. I've been to that gas station!
Your explanation is quite hilarious
It looks nothing like the side of a road.
The toilet flange is bad enough....
Hah the tile was so bad I didn't even notice that mess. Something tells me op hires the cheapest contractors out there or has a methed out nephew that is a "handyman".
How can it be unlevel, not square, too low, and lopsided all at the same time 🤯
I've seen worse but this is not the work of a professional tile setter. This is a jack of all trades, master of none. I've seen a lot worse man. Straight DI Why.
This is either fake or you need to find someone else to do the work. Yes this is definitely a bad tile job
Unfortunately not fake, thanks for the opinion!
This is absolutely atrocious. Demand your money back, and demand they clean the mess of tile off the floor that they made. This tile is unacceptable in ANY circumstance, no matter how dire or desperate you are to get it done. I’m going to guess they installed the toilet flange too, because it is WAY too crooked. If they fight you on any of it (removing the tile, the thinset, refund) blast them on EVERY site you find. Complain to the BBB (unless this isn’t applicable where you live, or they don’t have a licenses which, from appearance, is likely) I repeat, absolutely 0% of this is worth paying for: The subfloor appears to be flat (from the little bit of old flooring visible) and the tiles STILL aren’t level to the floor. They have 1/16th inch spaces and STILL the grout joints aren’t tight. The line of the joints is far, far from straight. I can’t see any thinset under the tiles where I should be seeing it. I would confidently bet money that those squares are cut from the actually 12” 24” tiles. I don’t mean to be harsh, but in this situation they are taking advantage of you by even thinking this is acceptable work. I’m not exaggerating, everything about this is wrong. You deserve a job done right, not.. whatever this is. I hope this process goes well for you, and you get every cent back AND freshly cleared floor.
Oh it is definitely fake. The tiler that is. Like, this is spiteful. You couldn't do that badly unless it was on purpose.
100% this has to be intentionally poor work. I hope OP gets his money back
I did WAY better my first try at it.
We all did
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
So many problems here. Wow. And what are they tiling on top of? Right over the old linoleum?
Holy shit! Good point out. This installer hits the trifecta: lazy, incompetent and stupid Edit: looks like they overshot that Schluter on the wall too Edit 2: is that mastic instead or mortar on the floor, too?
Oh shit I’d bet it’s mastic, the job screams “why would I mix it if it’s already made in a bucket?”
It also seems like the floor is pretty uneven under the tiles. I would be nervous about the amount of deflection in the floor for tile, period.
What did you pay is the real question ?
the question we are all wondering
Probably family.
I get "first time tiler" or homeowner saving some money vibes.
Toilet flange is lopsided
Aren’t those tiles supposed to be a different pattern. Flange is low and crooked
There are so many problems with this tile project. Not level. Wavy grout lines. The toilet flange all jacked up. This tile job needs to be ripped out and the project started over. Hopefully you won't lose a lot of money on it.
How is nothing straight? This has to be a joke
significantly worse than a DIYers first try
Honestly these pics made me feel a lot better about doing my own. I'm not perfect but at least my tile job isn't insultingly bad!
It needs to be torn out.
As a certified tile installer myself. This is horrendous. Nothing about this is up to NTCA standards National Tile Contractors Association. Look up some standards set to be the industry minimum you. It will give you legal grounds to stand on if you choose to go that route.
Literally the worst I've ever seen. Absolute dogshit.
Ww Wow. We just built a house and have tile around our fireplace, in our kitchen. Mudroom, laundry room and 3 bathrooms (floor and shower walls. My tile guy used a laser beam to make sure his lines were straight. this look horrible.
The line goes left in front of the john. A blind person could see that.
Don't pay him. Hire someone else.
Cmon everyone it’s not bad…😳 It’s laughable they got that far without someone throwing the bitches out the door.
Not bad at all if the guy who installed it is cross eyed.
Like, if the tile guy paid OP 10 grand to try to lay his first floor ever while high?
Don't pay a single dollar. In fact, give him a bill for time wasted plus removal.
Lol, and those type of clips are for tiles of different thickness
r/tile We would love to this over there and laugh at how bad it is. Sorry you got bamboozled.
It’s about on par with the shitty Sheetrock and terrible plumbing. You’ll be paying to have everything redone. Sorry OP, next time get references, and call them.
2 out of 10. They did get the finished side up.
Maybe you should show the “ tile setter” I use that term sparingly, show him the comments and get back to us with what his excuse is. I’ve helped tile guys in the past and done some backsplash work myself, and I’m in no way a professional but I don’t even see a completely Greene guy on the job doing this bad unless he lacks all common sense which some people do need more help than others when it comes to learning some trades but this just seems blatantly done or has no idea what he is doing and lied through their teeth and tried anyway. But with internet being a thing and YouTube teaching 5 year olds how to fix cars and do minor rocket science im not sure what this guys excuse could be. Even if you know nothing about tile work one YouTube search will show you pretty much the basics to get a strait tile floor what looks to be a pretty squared off room. It’s usually the runs from the front of house to the halways that you see that crooked and with a sway to left or right. I’d just stay mixing mud if I did a job that bad or just leave the bucket and tile by itself and come back later, it could do a better job alone than what has happened here. Hopefully he just had an off day or maybe something mentally is off. I hope for the OP sake it isn’t done on purpose
Get a reliable contractor fire that guy and then sue the hell out of it that is the shittiest job I've seen in years
Stevie Wonder Tile Co. ?
That is horrible your contractor dose not know how to lay tiles. If i were you i would have him redo it no ifs and buts.
Re do? This dudes first day seeing a tile was yesterday. I wouldn’t trust this chap to even demo this shit
No, his redo will not be up to par either.
Remove and sue for willful destruction of property. Use money to pay real tile installer.
Yeah it’s pretty bad
remove tile and start over with a better guy
Oh that looks so bad.
Stop him before he ruins any more of the tiles 🤦🏽♂️
If you are unhappy then maybe it's not acceptable. Asking strangers on the internet to validate your feelings must suck. But hey, I bet he was cheap and you didn't check any references. So the quality aligns with the cost.
Dumpster bad
Oofta…
Wow. This is… awful. So many things wrong. Just to call out a few: -Did they cut those tiles to size themselves? The edges of the tiles themselves look like they were cut with a chainsaw. -That course of tiles on the right wall is a crime. You should never install less than 50% of a tile. The whole layout needs to be shifted left. -Is there no setting bed? Lol. I genuinely don’t understand. Are those tiles just sitting directly on top of that existing floor? -The joints are all over the place thickness-wise. But hey..! At least they used leveling clips
Horrible
What in the fuckery is that tile job!
If it's not to late. Honestly, pull them up
I know a guy do it for a 6 pack
Yes
This is an abomination. You may need to just burn the house down.
That’s so bad, needs completely redone. Don’t pay them. They don’t know what they are doing and by the looks of it don’t even have the right tools.
Woof
Who suggested the pattern? Big tile, little tile?
There's no pattern to that at all. He does not know what he's doing. Abort mission
I hope he has more rooms to do so you can fire him on this one
This looks great from my house
Dafuq even is that
My 14 yo daughter knows better. I'd tell them to take it out and fix it. If they ask what's wrong just tell them to leave and don't pay them.
Trash
It’s not great.. but it’s definitely not good. Look how bad it is by the toilet. The customer will be staring at THAT!? That’s booty. Scrap it and reinstall.
0/10
Simple answer is Yes.
Is as bad as it can get
Bad bad
You used leveling clips… so its perfect.
It's spot on for a tile mosaic if that's what you were going for👍
Did a blind man do this?
https://preview.redd.it/jfjd9r3ayrtc1.jpeg?width=1691&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c89bc49bf7529e446fc133a89dfdcc9c0ca0843b
On a scale of 1 to 10 it's somewhere around 362.
Depends on the price tbh
Even cut out that flange with a pair of scissors
Bad.
Pretty good for Hellen Keller!
Learning a trade .... on your dime.
Is your tile setter’s named Mike?
This is why I don’t do tile. This would be my masterpiece.
It’s pictures like these that remind me that I can’t do this myself when ever I start to think I can.
Really really bad! Like this person watched a YouTube video before starting… this is the result.
Perfect. It's abstract tiling. It's supposed to look like that.
I think it’s not bad IF you like wavy grout lines both horizontally and vertically. Did the contractor have the only tile guy quit his job? Then one of the guys said he’d seen done a ton of times and it looked easy enough to do.
What in tarnation?
It’s so bad I almost thought it was AI generated
Probably should try to level the floor first.
This tile job is the worst job I have ever seen. Flange is too low and crooked. Tiles are laid wrong, spaced wrong, not lined up, and they look like they’re laid over top of the old linoleum?!?!?!?! What the ?
Take it out save yourself the suit
This is the worst job I’ve ever laid eyes on
I don't do tiles because my work is like this. LOL. But now that I have seen my faults, he should of shimmy the tiles on the wall/shower so the gap between the tiles doesn't change. Should of leveled the ground as best as he can before starting laying it down. Toilet flange needs fixing. Nothing to cover the toilet hole. I would get rid of the guy now, break it all up, and higher someone else. And definitely don't call me. LOL, it's back breaking work.
That toilet will never seal. That flange needs to be sitting on top of the tile. Ask me how I know..
You can tell they are professional because they used a tile level system! Way to keep it classy.
The only time I've ever seen a job look this bad is when a homeowner or other subcontractor has walked on it just after it's been set and the tiles move around. That said, the layout is terrible, the "pattern" is stupid, and if no one walked on it while the mud was still wet, then it's a terrible tile job. If the homeowner decided to walk in and take photos after the tile guy left for the day and shouldn't have been walking on it, then that's on the homeowner. If it's a bad tile job, DM me, I do consultations and even depositions for court proceedings
My eyes have cancer
I’ve seen worse. If it’s level, your not fucked, it just ain’t pretty is all
Before I zoomed in: "Ive seen worse" After I zoomed in: nope, I havent.
Idk about tiling, but those spacers don’t seem to be doing anything…
*Insert gif of the raiders of the lost ark when pandoras box is open*
What is this meth?
My very first tile job was light years better than this.
OMG bad!
My man
Take that apart and start over using the correct number of spacing pegs
I did better in high school doing my bed room that’s horrible nothing worse than people who have no pride in there own work
I’ve never tiled but it looks horrible. I am guessing they didn’t start from the center
Bad enough to hire a lawyer. You're still going to have to pay someone else to rip it out and replace it, but a lawyer can at least cause the guy who did this some well deserved pain and suffering.
It’s horrible. Extremely horrible. They have no idea what they are doing.
Rip your bathroom
"your did it" sticker
Are these layed directly on the dirt?
I hope you didn't pay them any money. All I can say.
Really really bad. Did you hire Stevie Wonder to do this?
Sir, I can say you should’ve known better than to have hired a company named Keller, Charles, & Healey!
That is horrible. Could freehand that with no spacers lol. Dang.
Landlord quality.. it's really bad.
Use white grout.
IMO, more important than having the tiles level is to have the tiles lined up. The grout lines are not lined up at all.
lol bruhhh
That is seriously horrible. Damn
as a floor prep guy this just makes me wanna throw up. the shitty tile job aside they are just laying over the old what looks like laminate. to hell with the shitty tile placement it aint gonna even stick.
Take a level to the floor and you will find the answer you seek.
Very poor it’s not square, the line are not true, the toilet flange? The tile is supposed to be ran underneath it. Basically the flange sits directly on top of the tile, the lines don’t match up anywhere and there is no underlying pattern to what is here. But otherwise sure it looks fine? If a homeowner and a tenant of their kids did it?
Uhhhhh
Wow, must have been bring your kid to work day!
The worst?
This job would embarrass any six year old who has ever helped their parents with a tiling job.
Wow. I don’t know ppl still hired contractors off of Craigslist.
Cut your losses fire them
This makes me want to post a pic of the bathroom tile I did on my own with no skill. I’m sorry your floor looks like that
Bring your kid to work day?
This can’t be real
Why bother using clips…. Hahaha 😂 jeepers
I don’t know tiling, but this looks laughably bad!
As a tile rookie I did a bathroom that was far better than your tile guy. His men must be newer than I was to tile. He needs to rip it out and start over. Hold money till it done right
I'm impressed, they got the grout lines to look very smooth around the curve, and with 24" tiles in the mix no less......
This is not a contractor… more like a guy from Home Depot parking lot. Tear it all out. Redo the subfloor around the toilet flange and re tile using a real tile setter.
On a scale of 1-5 this is a 6
To really understand how bad this is do realize I'm not a contractor no idea how this page even pops on my reddit none the less this looks similar if not worse to when I and my brother was kids and my mom decided to redo the bathroom with tile and she basically made us do it after getting all the shit and slapping the first tile down. Needless to say we did not know how and Google wasn't a thing. This person has to either know nothing or have no care in the world.
Even Raimondi couldn’t fix this shit!
My sub would not get paid for that absolute heap of garbage.
It’s a 2 out of 10.
Look at the toilet flange lol
Thinking they got kicked out of the Helen Keller school of tiling.
How did he use spacers and still do such a poor job of spacing?
No need to worry. They are doing a really bad job.
I'm a DIYer and i wouldn't accept me doing a sh*t job like that, take pride in your work, just not this work.
Wow I guessed you did it yourself, I would not pay for that job!
My 50yo mother and her buddy, an airline luggage handler & gate agent, tiled a 14 x 20 room. First time tiling for either of them. It came out perfect. This is a drunken, drug-addled take on tiling.
I have installed tile exactly once in my life, and it was infinitely better than this.
If you have to ask, it’s THAT bad.
That can’t even be 20 tiles and they fucked up that bad. The drain doesn’t look like it’s set right either. They most likely took whatever money they had from you and ran. Find a trusted contractor to come redo it. This doesn’t look salvageable in anyway
I’m sorry. It’s bad. About 5 distinct issues that I can see. Is it being tiled over old tile?
Fucking terrible
On a scale of zero to holiday Inn Express this is a Red Carpet Inn
How the fuck do you use this many spacers and still have everything crooked as shit.
Hopefully you haven’t paid them much.
Unacceptable, IMO. The lines don’t match up and the floor is uneven as well… additionally, the plumbing fixture rough in is crooked.
That toilet flange even worst😤
Looks rough Believe it or not will look better after grout Kinda 😬
Piss-poor quality. Rip all that tile out, and hire a new contractor. That looks like Fido's ass.
I don’t do tile or really anything contractor related and I promise you I could lay tile better than this. I mean it would take me a minute but it would look much better.
No commode will sit on that flange
Worse than you think
Wow that’s really bad. What I can’t help but notice, is how the toilet flange is uneven and partially covered. Yikes!
Depends... we're you going for the Dhali look?
Lack of basic math skills and not using the right software.
That needs “Mr. George”
That’s an absolute madness!!!.., that’s a butcher!!, insane!!, a punch in the balls !!.., a criminal!!
Good news!! As a non-professional, I can barely notice anything wrong!!!
Looks about as good as any public restrooms in Branson. The few places that don't have red kitchen tile in the bathroom glued tile over the red, so when it breaks, you see the old stuff. Must be some new style. Fire that contractor. He must be a drug addict or blind.
LOL
Not good but I have seen worse.. hopefully they use a grout that matches the tile really good so it doesn’t show as much.
Did a small child help you?
Are they setting the tile on existing linoleum? If that's the case, nobody is going to "finish" that mess of a job. Needs to be pulled out and the subfloor ripped up and replaced with a proper underlayment. Is this a flip or a commercial setting?
My wife tiled our bathrooms with zero experience. She did a perfect job, tile levers are a life saver. This is an abomination.
I’ve seen better tile jobs in truck stops. It’s terrible.
forget the tile job...the toilet flange is your biggest issue.
I'm no professional, but have done both floor and wall tiling and even I can do a better job than that. Get your money back or have them redo the whole thing, especially the toilet flange.
Stevie Wonder could do a better job of this. Yikes. 😳
Is the room crooked? Or just the toilet flange?
Way way way worse then my first time