You're not being picky. I wouldn't settle for this.

this is not good work.

No, no, no!!!

THAT is a tile issue. The sheets themselves are off. Seconds or some such.

Some of it looks like human error - too much mortar and no use of spacers

Floor and Decor or other overstock and seconds retailer? No tile pro that I know will work with the stuff. Because if exactly what you just posted. The sheets themselves have uneven spacing. To get that all to work would require hand setting it all at 6x the money.

That all needs to be removed. Then reselect your tile from a local first quality flooring store.

HI -- This is a sloppy unprofessional careless job that needs to be redone . He pays to fix , not you !!

Was he drunk?

Subflooring was not prepped correctly. Tile should not laid directly over plywood. You need Ditra or other waterproofing membrane. And if the sheets themselves were bad, an honest contractor would have told you this was a problem BEFORE trying to install.

the tile is laid over ditra.

thanks for the input all!

I'm thinking he might be trying to work with irregular walls,? We don't have enough information to comment here.

I'd like to call the post closed if there were such a thing since I've received the advice I came for. No need to comment further.

Unacceptable workmanship.

OP says "post closed...no need to comment further."

That's nice. This is a public forum. OP has no control over when the posts "closes."

I would insist on it being replaced! That is bad workmanship

Grout can only cover so much. Everything but the top photo.

thanks all, I spoke with the contractor yesterday and remedied everything yesterday too.

Don't be the post police. People can comment, and the op can leave when they are happy.

I am the op.

As a general contractor, we would not allow our subcontractor to leave a job like this. We would have made him redo the tile. There is value to hiring a general contractor to oversee subcontractors. Our subcontractors would have never done a job like this for us knowing we would make them redo it.

we do have a GC and he did require that the sub redo. all is well.

Call the Tile Police!!!

lol

Just remember ...YOU are the one who going to have to live with and look at this every day. Be polite but firm and make the contractor redo his work. If he is a good contractor, he will not want to leave the tile looking like this; it reflects badly on him and you will be unlikely to recommend him for any other jobs.

She did - read the posts

As a Tile Contractor this would NOT happen, or be acceptable for any of our clients. This is unacceptable work. Without knowing the complete story I can see the layout was done incorrectly and very sloppy. Mosaics will have a few here and there that are not layed straight from the factory but they can be fixed prior to install and are never this bad... unless you are purchasing from closeout place that deals in seconds....

On the flip side this brings up a point to consider for future work... was the bid a competitive bid or was it extremely low. If it was low the installer could have been a new company and not had alot of time in the industry/doesn't have experience. We see/fix installs all the time like this, the Home owner gets a referral from a friend that their cousin does tile and its a "good deal" and it turns out to cost 4 or 5 times what one of our bids would have costed originally to fix the problems.

Best of luck getting this fixed.

Mike

Spot on Mike with Maximum tile! This is sub-par work at best. You have to look at it and live with it every day. You are paying for this and have the right to have it completed correctly! Insist that it is fixed now before you have to pay again later. Never take the low bid, ever.

apparently there is no way to state that the problem has been fixed without me replying every time.

this was not a low bid, we are paying well, we have a GC. the company takes pride in their work and fixed the next day. these were finite areas and the overall job did not require any adjustment. thanks for your input. the problem has been solved thanks to early commenters agreeing with my instinct to have redone.

Get the Ditra tested right!! You must send data to Ditra that it worked when tested in order to have the Ditra warranty ANYTHING. We had Ditra fail, and a hell of a time getting a rep here. It took 8 months!

Tile job is sloppy crap. Hire a new contractor asap.

Reesefortress, if you stop responding to the thread, it will stop bumping it up and be lost forever in the Houzz design dilemma black hole:)