Your girlfriends, mates bloke is a plumber and you get him to do some plumbing at the same time he says he can tile aswell.. £120 a day.
So you let him loose on the bathroom.
4 days of work later, and the bathroom is not looking good.
The tiles allign at the where the walls meet, on any of the four walls
Only one wall is flat tiled the rest are bumpy and uneven.
Basically an ameteur could have done better
So you stop him working saying you want to reassess how its going.
Next day you text him saying you think it needs to be redone.
He texts saying the walls were pissed, and he was trying to help you out, and that he'll leave it there (unfinished) and want his money so far.
What do you? (apart from never employ someone you know again)
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If not, tell him to go jump in the river. If he does, go round his house and smack him when he opens the door. He wont be expecting it and a "pre-emptive strike" often does the trick.
Take photographic evidence in case he takes it any further, and also say you have had two other tilers round who have both said its been a botch job.
would you let an amateur near your fence, no thought not!
basically bit harsh but he's your mrs friends fella not yours m8, you don't owe him shit
and if your mrs gets mardy just state, would you except that work from me?? Hell no sh wouldn't, you wouldn't hear th end of it til it was all flush
My solution. Speak to the bloke, point out the tiles are not level. Give him a chance to agree and recify it, or you will get somebody in to rectify the tiling. If it costs you overall less than his quote for all the work, you will pay him the balance for everything he's done. Friendship shouldn't come into it. I suspect he know's he's done a shoddy job and will sort it out or agree to somebody else doing it.
I have talked him around
asked him if he would accept same work
he said "so you arent going to pay me?"
I said " would you? What I want is you to come back and do it to the standard I want"
He said " dont think thats the best idea..."
I said " I think you are being pretty unreasonable"
He said "wot do you want me to put right?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-wpOHhirIY
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He's tiling the absolute moron. When tiling you don't plaster a fecking wall geodre you do it you tile it level -.
Tell him bollox Raz -
I know a 'Master' tiler but he don't come cheap
You cant let ruff work go because you might think its ok for the first few days. But it will look worse every time you look at it believe me.
if you were to whisper me a contact number i know a perfectionist who will price it up reasonably.
ok not really, I'll post some next week if I can be arsed.
If you've used an electrician for example, I bet you haven't had to change.