I wrote a scathing review a year ago which somehow did not get posted. A year later my unsealed, sanded (which I never asked for) grout is not only showing huge amounts of grossness, it's obvious the grout isn't neatly contained within the grout lines but has huge areas where it's on the tile.
This was the only place I found the specific tile I was looking for and the owner said it would be a 2 week lead time which worked perfectly for a very tight schedule. After waiting a few days after the estimated installation time I contacted him and he said it would be another 2 weeks, or possibly a month. I had another tile installer who did a beautiful job in the kitchen and as soon as I said I could have the other installer pick up the materials I'd already purchased, somehow the owner found a way to make it happen the next day.
I can only imagine he was scrapping the bottom of the barrel on subcontracted installers, and they were nice, showed up on time, worked hard, but they were very inexperienced. Their work was very sub-par with huge wavy lines at the edges, uneven tile setting, and I don't even know what they did with the floor in the shower area but it's thick, it's weird, and the trim is atrocious.
The owner showed up halfway through the installation and mentioned that he'd sent me an email about a price increase. I hadn't seen it, would never have agreed to it, and not only that he never once contacted either me or my husband by phone to confirm. If I wasn't in such a time crunch I'd have thrown him off the jobsite right then and there. He's a liar and a weasel and has no control over the shoddy workmanship his subcontractors do.
Look up Michal Battle if you want tile done right. read more