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help! Contractor Boo boo

3 years ago

Please help with your ideas! Our contractor (who we actually really liked) made a big mistake. When installing our new tub, he did not take notice of the floor and where the tub would meet the tile that we DID NOT want to replace. He admitted he should have built out the wall, but noted he’d have to redo a whole days worth of work and wasn’t willing to recoup that cost Tony’s. He suggested overlaying the existing tile with LVP or something else which we were not keen to do because :
1)we like the tile

  1. didn’t want a height transition in the doorway which is currently completely level from tile to hardwood.

We let him finish without a resolution because we didn’t like the choices presented.

Our thoughts:

  1. Find matching tile and just replace the tile row next to the tub—after 3 months we still have not found the same tile and have no idea of maker/style.

  2. get a wider piece of silicone cove molding—ordered multiple samples and none are wide enough to cover (leaves about 1/4” gradually showing)

  3. wild thought- lay something water resistant and white that’s really flat on the area not covered by tile and go back with a smaller silicone trim 🤷‍♀️However don’t know what this flat white material would be.

Help me out with your thoughts/suggestions! I will happily Venmo a tip to the person with the best idea we can execute 🤗

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