WOW!!!! You Guys are killing it softly . . . . 
SPRUMBABA! AND Mahabone
I can't agree more with you guys. . . .

Below are some few pics of my Kitchen tiles.

For some reason the grout are not perfectly on same line.

Reason 1: the Decor I used is a bit bigger than the tile.
Reason 2: The tiler like I complained earlier is not that good. So I couldn't risk asking him to cut
the decor to the size of the tile as the difference is very small and he would for sure cut it roughly.

So I manage it. So guys, please bear with me. This is my first project and I'm just doing everything to make it look 

kikeige:

@STRUMBABA
I am happy that people are talking more about tiling and finishings on this thread.I have not been able to proceed on my twin duplex because I have not been able to get a satisfactory tiling job sample. Strumbaba, do you mind sending some pictures of the work you've done to my e-mail as well as the types of tiles you have.I am looking for

Glazed porcelain tiles
Minimum PEI 4, preferably 5
COF  of 0.1 - 0.4,
Porosity < 0.05%. (vitrified)

Please send your reply to my e-mail address or better still post it on this thread for the benefit of everybody.
shawlar_0@yahoo.com    (shawlar underscore zero @ yahoo.com)

@ Am Alone
Having read all the comments and seeing the pictures, I must say that the tiler did not do a bad job.I will love to see the finished work after the "white cement"aka grout has been put on the tiles to fill the spaces.It is going to make the tiles come out a lot better.Let us give it to this guy.He may not be perfect and needs some more detailing training, but he don try.
I am still waiting on you to give me the phone # of your #1 tiler out of them all. I hail you Oluwa Champion.Go on soun my broda.
The villa is coming out really beautiful. I hope the beautiful than the house madam is ready to move in with you so that you are not alone in this HOME.   O seeeeeeee. I'm all for you bro. Mo gba ti e mehn.

Man, please be a little more patient. Today a new tilers have being employed to continue with the tilling of my house. He did a very perfect job for one of my friend's house
and I'm sure he can do for me a very good job. So once he can prove himself again, I will send you his number. . .


It is not about what people have said here so far, for me the guy is not that good because I remember how many tiles he set badly that I have to ask him to remove.

So that is it. Anyways, I thank you guy.

@Mahabone, thank you very much. You are really very encouraging. . .
I am not saying my job is perfect, what I'm saying is that it is not that bad or atleast look good!!!!

oluwa champion!!!!

Hey guys check out all this tile work. If you notice the joints are filled with white substance and not matching colors.

These are things I am trying to replicate. So I want to ask, are these bad tilling too?

Thanks you all for you contributions. . . .

Eros!!! You the Hero, check yourself for mirror
you go c say you no fit be the Zeros,

Thanks all

@ Casemoney and Sprumbaba,

I am very certain I don't know anything about tilling compared to what you guys are said up there!!!!!


You know what? Most of all the tiles I saw online and in most of the movies I've seen, the grout(if i'm right) in-between the tiles are always filled with white cement or so.

Same thing applies to our locally made tile works around here. They are always filled with white cement. . . .


I will post pictures soon of what I mean. Please guy abeg make orna enlighten me small abeg
OLUWA CHAMPION(ABEG I TOO LOVE THIS 2 WORDS JOR)

^^^^ THANKS MAN!!!!!
Maybe you didn't or can't notice it from the pictures there is actually a thin space left to be filled .

THanks very much man. Next time I will try to do better!!!!!
CONFIRM O
OLUWA CHAMPION!!!!!
CHAMPION GO GHOOD!!!!!

Okay . . .

Kool, nice and lovely  

Sprumbaba
You right!!!! While I though it was marble was jus cos of the thickness. . .

But you were right all the way. . . .

Sprumbaba:

@ Am Alone

You are welcome. Really you can get most of these things in Nigeria. I have enjoyed your building process and your taste.
Let me ask you:

What are you using for the counter top in your kitchen?

Thanks

If you can tell me the name of that granite you posted up there. Because It kind of looks like marble to be(very nice though)!!!!

Below is a picture of my granite(from google)

The name is called; Blue pearl

^^^

Bros, the picture you have there seem to look more like marble or I'm I missing something?
I will look for the picture of the type of my granite on google and post to you

^^^^^^^^

Thanks very much man. I am using Granite for the counter top of the kitchen.

I bought it last week. I will post the pictures once I fix them. . .

Thanks

Sprumbaba:

@Am Alone
I will like to correct you that Casey was right.You should not claim you know it all. You also have not done your research very well.  There are 2 types of Cut inTiles:

1. Rectified
2. Un-rectified Tiles

Both type of cuts need spacers but rectified could use the thinnest grout and thinnest spacer.

Furthermore, in Naija, we dont know the difference between Porcelain tiles and Ceramic tiles, Tile Na Tile. The line you are calling is what they call Grout lines . The norm is to march your grout line with the color of your Tiles not just white cement on brown tiles.
If you need a book on Tiling I can send one to you to guide you in doing your tiling project.
I supervise custom flooring projects and Import them as well.
I purposely placed this 3 tiles together for you to see. The 2 with closed edge is Rectified, while the other one with space (That has a gap) is un-rectified.

Hey man!!!! Okay, Now I get it. Thank you very very very very much!!!
I say so because you atleast know what you are talking about. Atleast
I really enjoy your post. Not like saying I know it all. I don't believe. But doing what I think I know man. . . .

But you know this is Naija. Most of the things you talking about there is not available or not very comon here(just saying)

@Gtrust

How far with the money, I will do that tomorrow.
But to say a few, so far spent is around 8m(I exclude the cost of the old roof and omonile and approval fees)

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Even the bellow tile work joints is almost invisible
doesn't make the tilling poor jor

kilode se:

Hi Am alone, you've done a good job. congrats.

I just have a few questions, I just like to know the plot size, procedures (survey, plan, foundation, building etc) and cost estimate, if you dont mind. my addy is adigunbabatunde@yahoo.com. any helpful info will do. I intend to embark on similar project in about 3 months.

Bros I will send the cost estimate to you inbox and the survery plan.
But for all to see, I think the total cash that will finish my house is 12 to 13m

That is my total calculation:
With no hidden cost. As in it includes, the omonile fees, survey plan, money paid for approval and
will also include the paving of the compound, the furnishes(wardrobe,kitchen cabinet,plates an all other)
It also includes my electronics as I will be buying expensive once. For example the TV I am buying for the
sitting room is around 650k( 55" LED 3D tv) and the latest home theatre, frigde is around 350k, gas is around 200k(industrial with 6 burners)
kitchen extractor which I've bough 75k(touch screen). and every every sha!!!!!! 13m

This is more that enough proof.
Its a thing of choice

The spaces in between the white toilet wall tiles above is what what I am going to have in mine after the joint are filled.
Again Egin I will show to you some pictures of wall tiles filled with white cement.

egin:

The tiler should have used spacers when setting up the tiles. As for the spaces tell him to use grout with matching color and not cement.
Check the link below on how to install perfect bathroom tiles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYais38h5Qk

caseymoney:

Am Alone, the tiles looks good but the tiler did a bad job. In fact, DIY can look better than that. Don't get me wrong, your house looks good but, I would suggest you get good hands for your interior finishing. I hope, you take this as a constructive criticism?

Casemoney first, I must say that your words were just too harsh to say DIY can look better that than. I have take my time to study the work done by the tiler. I agree he is not all that good. But I monitored this work myself and make sure he give me what I want. Like I said before, the tilling is not completed. What is left is for the joints to be filled with white cement with is normal/common. Even at that, you can't say its so bad. Because from what I can see from the picture and at the site, the work is perfect!!!! Wait till I send you more pitures of the finished works.


@ Egin!!!
Sometimes it feel to good to see people stand up for criticisms. . . . Casemoney criticism for me is not constructive as he could not pin-point what exactly is wrong will my tilling. Anyways regarding your claims that spacers were not use. And doing some more research on the matter, I have come to understand that some tiles just like the onces used in my bathroom comes with factory/company fixed spaces. So that no matter how close you lay the tiles there must still be spaces between them. Just like the tiles in my house. Again spacer or no spacer doesn't mean the job is not okay or done right!!!!!! Spaces in-between tiles is a thing of choice and should not be considered as a bad tilling job. Attached are picture of some bathroom and wall tiles done abroad and see for yourself. . . . The black and white below have got now space and the white have got spaces as small as mine!!!!
THANKS GUYS!!!!!!!

^^^ well I agree with you on that one.

@ Caseymoney,

Please which of the tiles are you talking about??

Is it the toilet tiles or the exterior tile work??

Anybody else notice the very bad job

caseymoney:

Am Alone, the tiles looks good but the tiler did a bad job. In fact, DIY can look better than that. Don't get me wrong, your house looks good but, I would suggest you get good hands for your interior finishing. I hope, you take this as a constructive criticism?

This is the tiler I said I will give 2 over 10. For the floor tiles I'm starting tomorrow
I am getting another/a-better-hand to give me a good job.

But for the BAD JOB you are talking about, I can't figure it out from that picture.
And the way you say it - wow!!!!!

Like I said, the tilling is not completed. The finial work will be to fill the joints of the tiles with white cement.

Thanks anyways

"OLUWA CHAMPION" IS SIPPING!!!!! 
"HIS" Fence is CHILLING 
Wat more can I say; "HE'S" Killing It

dirty pop after finish awaiting to be painted.

kool

;d

other toilets inside the house

Master-bedroom tile and pop work
Both not completed. For the tiles all we need do now is to fill the joints with white cements.

k

k

More Pictures Update:

By next week, I will start sending pictures of the floor tiles. . . . .

all the wall tiles have not being completed. But by next week sha.
We will all see some good progress

olubuffett:

@ Sypder

How u dey? In response to your question above you be surprise that they do sell ready made lintel (not in 9ja o) at least i have not seen one , so what you need to do is build your lintel on ground in your propose metal plate and get some guy to get it up, how they will lift it na anoda thing.

How to lift I I'm sure that will be another problem. . . .

olubuffett:

@ Am Alone

Great solid house man, you have really done very well.
You sure say you no want become contractor?

LOL!!!! I Can't O! Honestly.
I fear the risk. Even if I want to be that means I will have to go and study it.


I'm doing it just because of the fun!!!!
I have lots of experience. But I just can't come out and say I can!!! With the little ideas I have
Building dey collapse too much this days for Naija I swear!!!!!

@Spyder, if you notice, the tile is multi-colored so I think it won't be difficult to match the colors

Thanks!!!

@ Spyder - lol!!!!!
No wahala!!!!

@kikeige
Thanks mehn. . . .
I will send pictures to you asap.
Also, i want to get a better camera so that I can take
the picture exactly as they are. I will send you pictures of the tiles.

From Monday I will send start the floor tiles. Presently I'm stilll on the wall tiles.

Thanks man!!!