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I find it disheartening that the majority of trades simply don't care about the quality of finish and the fact that someone can DIY it to a far higher standard says it all really.
Must be depressing going in to work each day and not giving a shit about anything you do.
Sad.
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It's just time and money isn't it? Reasonably priced trades aren't going to be able to spend as long on getting a perfect finish as a DIYer would. High end trades might be able to.
We have occasionally had people say 'i can do the perfect job for £3x or a satisfactory job for £1x, up to you', but that seems quite rare.
Obvs the tiler up thread was just a bit shit though
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I find it disheartening that the majority of trades simply don't care about the quality of finish
Isn't this just a natural consequence of our impoverishment thanks to first the Great Recession and the permanent low interest rates it bought, then Brexit and finally Covid?
A good finish takes time and experience and both cost a lot of money these days. Or rather, the money we had has been devalued to such an extent that it looks expensive to us, but to matey who borrowed a load of cash at 2% and bought a load of sports Rolex and Bitcoin in 2014 it looks pretty cheap.
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I think the issue is a lot of people now just look at the price and from experience go for the cheapest and then moan when they didnt get what they really wanted.
lemonade
Howard
konastab01
probably the best bet to do it yourself. I've just tiled our kitchen including a windowsill that slopes 5mm across the width.
packed it out with a bit of ply with a packer under one side to level it.
take your time and get it right, sounds like you've got plenty of tiles spare anyway!
for the side reveals I'd probably just do one tile vertically rather than have the small infill at the bottom.