How not to do tile

[Grant H.]

Edges are pretty ragged in spots.
Corners don't line up with proper grout lines.
Trim pieces aren't level/plumb with the rest of the tiles.

Quite a few issues there.

Sorry it turned out that way, but at least they are taking care of it for you.

[brutal]

Edges are pretty ragged in spots.
Corners don't line up with proper grout lines.
Trim pieces aren't level/plumb with the rest of the tiles.

Quite a few issues there.

Sorry it turned out that way, but at least they are taking care of it for you.

Tile is natural stone, so it is a bit rough and the sizes not perfect. Tile was all cut for install with a wet saw so no reason for extra sloppiness. He also had a finishing stone and could have either turned the tiles, done a better job of matching, and/or used the dang smoothing stone to ease the edge. Stacking tolerances is bad mkay? Had an upper and lower like that once.

That said, yes, grout lines too tight to allow for any wiggle room, crooked tiles, many sitting too proud, and the centering of the window just didn't even occur to them. He wasn't very skilled with using the right amount of mastic. ,etc. On one tile I did catch that was cracked and made them replace while they were working, another fell right off the damn wall when he was removing the cracked one. I also went behind them and did some touch up drywall filler on the wall to get it a little straighter before they were done and had a tile pop off that had almost no mastic on it. I should have made them stop right there, but we wanted our kitchen for Christmas so I backed off. My mistake.

I couldn't get a good pic looking down the wall, but the grout line rises and falls very noticeably. It's "groovy."

The accent tile came on a backer and they still managed to jack that all up.