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| Laying out the tiles |
During your
renovation, it is a good idea to ensure that you are monitoring progress and
discussing any issues as they arise with your contractor. This will ensure that you stay on target
as best you can and address issues immediately. As an example, some of the challenges I came across were tile placement. We
purchased tiles that had a marble like look and required laying the tiles
out before being installed to ensure the flow of light and dark tiles we evenly
placed.
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| Completed Project |
We had asked the contractor if he was comfortable ensuring that
the tiles would be distributed evenly, and we provided him a photo of the lay out
we had from the tile shop where we saw the display. The contractor said they
understood and would lay the tiles out accordingly. Needless to say, when the
first wall went up they had used all darker tiles and there was an abundance of
light tiles for the remainder of the bathroom.
When this was brought to the
contractor’s attention, he said, "it is a matter of opinion”. We had the
contractor take down the tiles and laid out the tiles on our own in the middle
of the living room floor for them to copy in the bathroom. We was forced to buy additional tiles but the contractor agreed to eat the cost of taking down and
reinstalling as we originally suggested. Had we not been on top of the renovation the job
may have been completed and we would have had a much more difficult time
getting the contractor to fix the problem, and we would have had to buy a lot
more tiles.
So the lesson
remains, if you are not living in the space, make sure that you visit the site
daily – or at least arrange with the contractor to view work that could be left
to interpretation.
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