Our bathroom floor tiles are 300x300. And the wall tiles are 300x450. At tiles direct we chose for the wall tiles to go Vertical so the grout lines would line up with the floor tiles. We have 4 bathrooms and none of the floor and wall tiles line up. Some are off by 2cm, some 10cm. It just looks like lazy workmanship. It's sending my OCD into overdrive. I checked with friends of mine who recently built with allcastle homes and their tiling is beautifully done, all tiles line up perfectly.
Is anyone currently at tiling stage or have already completed tiles?? Am I being silly to have expected the tiles to line up?
We are spending +$700K on this house. To be told that if we had spent more money maybe they would've spent more time on it - wasn't exactly the response I expected from Clarendon.
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Did you raise this with your SS?
I remember someone else on this forum had the same issue you were talking about, their SS got tiles direct to strip out all tiles and relay it with the correct orientation at no cost to the client.
I believe standard process is you have a meeting the tiler before he does his job (I could be wrong on that one).
AJ
Interestingly we were told by tiles direct that the grout may not line up due to the different size in tiles.
Thank you all for your input. So I have been told by Tiles Direct that floor and walls have different grout width so will never line up. If tiler tried to line these up then it will gradually be out of line. Still doesn't really explain why other bathrooms I have seen are perfect.
I guess I will just have to live with it. Apart from this issue I'm really happy with how the bathrooms are looking. I will post some photos when I work out how to do this
I do suggest for those that are expecting their tiles to line up, have this conversation with Tiles Direct prior to tiling rather than be disappointed after they have been completed.