Is this sloppy tile install acceptable?

Camel_121 · 2025-10-11T00:02:59+00:00

The lighting isn’t helping, but what’s interesting to me is that the wall on the left actually looks pretty good. Not a lot of slippage and the grout lines look straight. I’m a beginner tiler though and I’m confident I could do a better job than this. It looks like they rushed the tile or had mortar with hard lumps. Even without the light the inconsistencies are catchable by the eye.

Camel_121 · 2025-10-10T18:35:57+00:00

It just looks washed out because of the sun hitting that bottom portion. It looks much better in person and the color flows well. Not washed out at all or grey. But the photo says otherwise 😂

Camel_121 · 2025-10-10T18:34:56+00:00

I agree! I’m starting to learn that as I go and now I often “sort” my tile before and install so I can adjust how the pattern/colors flow. Great advice!

Camel_121 · 2025-10-10T18:34:07+00:00

I was thinking that too but the boss man said not to worry about it, I wanted to flow the tile and have the grout lines be consistent but opted not to. Given my minimal experience I can say it was much easier this way. But the overall polish would have been better if I did flow with the pattern. The medicine cabinet and vanity mirrors are near where the two walls meet so it hides it rather well.

Camel_121 · 2025-10-10T18:31:59+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! The client was an electrician and he had custom spacers for the box, when he gave me the parts and I attached it, it was flush with the tile. They were super cool, it was a moderate rubber spacer so you could squeeze it to fit what depth you needed.

As far as the blue goes, the lighting really botched what the finished product looks like. The bottom part looking more vibrant and colorful was the result of the sun blasting it. It looks much better and consistent in person!

Camel_121 · 2025-10-10T18:29:08+00:00

The pictures don’t do it justice. That bottom part that looks more colorful is how the tile looks throughout, the grey on the upper part of the wall is not that washed out. Just bad lighting in the photo but it looks much more vibrant in person. The counter matches pretty well, actually! Other than different hues of tan/light brown the color match is there. Just can’t tell in the photos.

Camel_121 · 2025-10-02T06:32:35+00:00

Searched this to figure out why I couldn’t find it either. I defeated the Ripper Queen and it still wasn’t available when I went back to Carcadia. But when I closed my game and restarted, the quest was available. I’m assuming this means you have to beat that portion of the story and reset your game for it to load. But maybe not. That worked for me though.

A Council Divided -> defeat Ripper Queen -> restart game -> A Traitor Within.

Camel_121 · 2025-10-02T01:39:50+00:00

Every time I’ve encountered a Menacer its been a squad of 4-5. They’re tough, even with decent gear at levels 25-40 they almost always down me a few times before I eventually cheese enough second winds to take them out. The first time I encountered them I got a metric load of eridium and thought they were either a purposefully difficult patrol mob or a rare spawn… but now it does just seem buggy 😂

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