Pete Talbot Tile Crafts

From start to finish, Pete Talbot provides top quality work and customer service. Excellent workmanship. Tile was perfectly installed… grout lines were perfect as were small cuts and connection to the carpet. I was extremely pleased as was the tenant. Will recommend highly.

Friendly? Yes. On time? Yes. Quality of work on a medium sized job? Not up to par.
400sq feet of 18″ tile needed to be done. Diagonal lay so there were a lot of cuts. We did our front room in 1/​8″ grout line so Pete was to finish the job into the living room, kitchen and closet. Everything started off fine but in the middle of our living room Pete started using 3/​8″ spacers for the grout lines! Why? I have NO idea. None. We had an abundance of 1/​8″ spacers and why he even pulledthose out of his tool box is anyone’s guess. In some areas the grout line had gotten as wide as ½″ which is a HUGE difference than the 1/​8″ we were using. The next day Pete had to pull up 11 of the tile he had installed to «fix» this problem which costs him and his helper (AND us) another day of work. Then I’ll be damned if he did not repeat the very same mistake towards the end of the job. So our front room has 1/​8″ grout lines and into the front room we have anywhere from 1/​8″ to almost ½″ grout lines. Thank God we are using a light colored grout. If we were using a dark grout we would have to tear up a LOT of our tile to make it look professional. I honestly think that he just got tired. I can understand that as laying tile IS hard work. But tired turning into sloppy is inexcusable and we will NOT be using Pete again or recommending him. Sorry, Mr. Talbot but this is our HOME and I am not satisfied with your quality of work.