Bad Tiling Jobs

 Tile repair jobs that I encountered throughout the years.

I got hired to fix this floor for a customer of mine back in 2017. As you can see the previous builder used a newspaper instead of subflooring sarcastically speaking.  















This job was a brand-new floor not even 6 months old, it was cracking and bouncing while walking on it. I was hired to fix it somehow. Job done in 2020




















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