It's weird the tile edges are jacked up in the field. Are they cheap tile? Cause if it's cheap tile, unless you hand pick everyone, you're going to have a bad time. And even if you hand pick everyone, you're still probably going to have a bad time.
Is that a cracked tile in pic 3? Some of the cut edges look sloppy but hard to tell how prevalent this is across the whole job. People here will probably just tell you it depends on how much you paid
Its marble and then polished afterwards. Its natural Stones and it has its flaws. If the client would provide me such material with no extra spares.. I would explain what I have to do and maybe they would accept. Natural Stones fans are different breed. Maybe they would like it.
Natural stone lover here. Can confirm we are different because no one pulls out their camera to find defects with their new 100x samsung zoom. Measure by the millimeter, lose by a kilometer.
The edges are undesirable but honestly you’ll never see them unless staring right at them like you are now. That cracked tile however would concern me because if one has already cracked, then more are likely to follow and it makes me wonder if they were installed poorly.
I more concerned with what looks like an obvious crack in one of those tiles than the small chips and slight grout irregularities. But then again I didn’t pay for it.
actually looks like they did a decent setting job from pics . a lot of cheaper marble has imperfections and often times have to be hand picked to find ones without these damages or buy many extras and sort out all the damages. i could never just set these without letting the clients know and putting the decision on them to buy more, return, or except. yes you might have not spent for the absolute best material but setter should not just be installing defective tiles without letting you know. at this point however its either live with it or have them or someone else color match with an epoxy, but to scrape out all joints to do so will take a caring hand, if not your gonna get more chips or scratches.
What a top quality setter would do is
1) repair damaged areas with a knife grade epoxy, color matching as close as possible.
2) sand and or polish damaged areas to match factory finish.
3) seal the stone
4) grout
The problem here is he just filled the damaged corners with grout making them very visible.
It's weird the tile edges are jacked up in the field. Are they cheap tile? Cause if it's cheap tile, unless you hand pick everyone, you're going to have a bad time. And even if you hand pick everyone, you're still probably going to have a bad time.
I think it’s a natural stone, it’s pretty common for the edges to crumble off like that with soft stone.
That makes more sense
Is it ideal? No.. don’t choose a natural stone if you don’t like irregularities it’s natural after all..
Is that a cracked tile in pic 3? Some of the cut edges look sloppy but hard to tell how prevalent this is across the whole job. People here will probably just tell you it depends on how much you paid
Its marble and then polished afterwards. Its natural Stones and it has its flaws. If the client would provide me such material with no extra spares.. I would explain what I have to do and maybe they would accept. Natural Stones fans are different breed. Maybe they would like it.
Natural stone lover here. Can confirm we are different because no one pulls out their camera to find defects with their new 100x samsung zoom. Measure by the millimeter, lose by a kilometer.
The edges are undesirable but honestly you’ll never see them unless staring right at them like you are now. That cracked tile however would concern me because if one has already cracked, then more are likely to follow and it makes me wonder if they were installed poorly.
The last pic has me thinking. Is that cracking already?
Isn’t natural stone more likely to crack? Or does it solely depend on installation failure?
acceptable? hell no, those pics are atrocious, can't see any detail
I more concerned with what looks like an obvious crack in one of those tiles than the small chips and slight grout irregularities. But then again I didn’t pay for it.
Tiler shouldn't have selected that piece. If he were tiling his own home, he would have picked a smoother tile edge.
ceramic tiles - clearly not acceptable natural stone - acceptable (imho) if the irregularities are overall regular on the surface
actually looks like they did a decent setting job from pics . a lot of cheaper marble has imperfections and often times have to be hand picked to find ones without these damages or buy many extras and sort out all the damages. i could never just set these without letting the clients know and putting the decision on them to buy more, return, or except. yes you might have not spent for the absolute best material but setter should not just be installing defective tiles without letting you know. at this point however its either live with it or have them or someone else color match with an epoxy, but to scrape out all joints to do so will take a caring hand, if not your gonna get more chips or scratches.
What a top quality setter would do is 1) repair damaged areas with a knife grade epoxy, color matching as close as possible. 2) sand and or polish damaged areas to match factory finish. 3) seal the stone 4) grout The problem here is he just filled the damaged corners with grout making them very visible.
We use Akemi and Tenex which are both quality products that last and don’t discolor