This is true,tile quality has actuality gone down,even on expensive one's,sizing has become a real issue in the industry,same box,same run but you get tiles that are maybe a 16th to a 8th inch off and if your using spacers it becomes problematic for the installer,I've even had $ 16.00 to $20.00 per sq/ft crossville tile have sizing issues,Thats why most tile is run in some sort of pattern verses a plain square set,which this particular one was,a broken brick pattern.If you notice in the picture the grout lines lettered a&b are different widths and there's a bunch more than just those,thats in the linear run not the vertical.Number 1 tile should have been taken out and replaced with another as there is a definite size difference on the left end.#2 picture the tiles are crooked and along the counter top the grout was not wiped out good enough.That tile has a beveled edge so you can go two ways with it,butt them together and wipe the grout even with the tile and you wind up with what will look like a 1/8" inch grout joint or use a 1/8" spacer or a wedce and wipe the grout down to where you see the bevel.
LOL, I can be as well, but recently, some OCD homeowners have broken my pride. One particular job, I have replaced every window once, Some three times. Big picture windows. The latest, they called two months later to say they found something else [on the glass]. "But you can only see it after 4 oclock". Mercy. Then the next call was "the crossbar in the screens looks good from the inside but we think if it were lowered 1/2 inch that the outside would look better.
. Then I wasted another
trip out to look at another problem. This is no joke, we walked out on the deck, and he said, "after it rains, if you come outside, i can hear water dripping inside of the gutter downspout"
I here ya,every now and then you get the ones you can't please no matter what,most of the time their wanting something for free.I will always go back and meet the customer to address anything they have a concern about and if its a legtimate complaint i will address it but if its something unreasonable i just bluntly tell them it is.Ive learned after 25 years in the business that you can't beat around the bush.I bet you do the same also but you've still wasted your time and gas and some people simply don't get it,some want you to come and change there lightbulb.......lolLOL, I can be as well, but recently, some OCD homeowners have broken my pride. One particular job, I have replaced every window once, Some three times. Big picture windows. The latest, they called two months later to say they found something else. "But you can only see it after 4 oclock". Mercy. Then the next call was "the crossbar in the screens looks good from the inside but we think if it were lowered 1/2 inch that the outside would look better.
Up until last year, I jumped through every hoop, gave them everything they wanted that was not in the contract, took beating after beating. but no more, My mindset has changed starting after this present job. Most recent homeowner said "when are you going to install the windows" on an addition. Brick crew 2 days out. I said you did not ask for windows. They said" we assumed we were getting windows, we have windows everywhere." I said, there not on the plan you gave me. Mercy, I eat 2 windows and get behind 3 weeks, two waiting on windows and another week because I lost my window with the mason..... and they complain because it's taking so long.
