Browse Forums Building A New House Re: CONSUMER AWARENESS ON PORCELAIN TILES 2Feb 14, 2012 9:19 am For info on our build: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=43093 Built the McLaren by Dechellis - slab down 22 Feb - handover 30 Aug 2011 - and gardens finished 9 Dec 2012!! Re: CONSUMER AWARENESS ON PORCELAIN TILES 3Feb 14, 2012 9:22 am http://camdenbuild.blogspot.com.au/ by invite only please pm me Re: CONSUMER AWARENESS ON PORCELAIN TILES 7Feb 15, 2012 4:09 pm For info on our build: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=43093 Built the McLaren by Dechellis - slab down 22 Feb - handover 30 Aug 2011 - and gardens finished 9 Dec 2012!! Re: CONSUMER AWARENESS ON PORCELAIN TILES 14Mar 05, 2012 10:04 am For info on our build: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=43093 Built the McLaren by Dechellis - slab down 22 Feb - handover 30 Aug 2011 - and gardens finished 9 Dec 2012!! Re: CONSUMER AWARENESS ON PORCELAIN TILES 16Mar 08, 2012 4:50 pm daveinthehills lorna, I would be careful about what you type on this forum. I just read this sticky post today: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=29877 and you may need to edit your post to be more careful about these things. I don't know anything about your specific situation, or any of the people involved, but one of my friends got in a big legal mess making comments on a forum, and the law is surprisingly in favour of companies. Thanks David First time user to a forum and was not aware of what you pointed out. Glad you took the time to post this. Ive learnt something just a very angry person at the moment and i suppose anger affects your judgement anyways thanks Re: CONSUMER AWARENESS ON PORCELAIN TILES 17Mar 08, 2012 5:31 pm lorna webster 1 Thanks David First time user to a forum and was not aware of what you pointed out. Glad you took the time to post this. Ive learnt something just a very angry person at the moment and i suppose anger affects your judgement anyways thanks No worries. I also read this article: http://www.smh.com.au/business/how-the- ... 1ue6z.html just recently, and frankly I reckon the law needs to be changed. Anyway, I digress, this discussion is a little off topic. I hope you get your tiles sorted out. I am certainly a little wiser after reading this thread. Re: CONSUMER AWARENESS ON PORCELAIN TILES 18Mar 08, 2012 5:37 pm We had the waxy stuff left on from transport when we built our last house. We had used the same tiles in our previous build and they were fine, but the the batch we used in that house we couldn't get the wax off. The builder tried and couldn't either. We lived with it for 18 months until we rented the house out and got a tile cleaner in and he buffed them and they came up perfect. Re: CONSUMER AWARENESS ON PORCELAIN TILES 19Mar 09, 2012 8:18 am Allycat1 Hi Lorna, I am from Rockhampton as well and just starting to build with local builder. We too are getting porcelain tiles throughout. Do you have any advice for me. We are not buying from Beaumonts but a another local tile shop. How are they going to fix your tiles? Hi Allycat1 I am referring to chinese porcelain tiles in my awareness story. After the cleaner has finished cleaning your house and before you make the final payment you need to check the tiles for any haze or swirls in them. The haze and swirls are a fault in the manufacturing process and i see from a lot of responses that we are getting told this is natural characterisctics in porcelain tiles. Totally false. When you see brochures and tv advertisements, magazines portraying a beautiful shiny floor this is what we all expect as a consumer when deciding to lay porcelain tiles. When i was told this was a natural look i was dumbfounded and thought that everyone out there with the beautiful shiny floors must have the faulty floor. We researched this problem alot. We first told it was grout haze, then transit wax, then opitcal hazing until we found the right people to talk to and sent them the photos and tile and the conclusion was the manufacturing fault in the polishing process. It was hard to detect in the building process during with so much dust and dirt around until the cleaning had did his job. We seem to be close to a resolution with this issue and will post this as soon as possible where it could be of some help to other people. All the best Re: CONSUMER AWARENESS ON PORCELAIN TILES 20Mar 22, 2012 2:06 pm After seeing this thread I got in touch with the Tile Council and they told me that the packaging should have: a manufacturer's name or trade mark, a work size, the country of origin, whether they are glazed or unglazed, rectified or whether they are modular or non modular, the mark of 1st quality, or the type of tile and reference to the conforming Standard. Our packaging has none of the above and we have optical hazing - we're just debating whether it's worth spending $450 to have the Tile Council have a look at the tiles and write a report which we could take to the builder/supplier. As we've hit so many brick walls with the builder we are not confident of getting anywhere. Be warned ... check your tiles and packaging! For info on our build: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=43093 Built the McLaren by Dechellis - slab down 22 Feb - handover 30 Aug 2011 - and gardens finished 9 Dec 2012!! Firstly the ableflex that has been installed needs (manufactures specification) a sealant cap over the top, preventing water draining down between the slab and the… 3 8099 Our house was completed 8 years ago. Builder did not leave any spare roof tiles behind. Just found out that one tile is cracked. Wanted to replace the tile but most… 0 2946 1 16319 |