Shower enclosure-need advice

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Having my bathroom refitted and just came home to see the shower glass has been fitted and it doesn’t look great
The plumber says it’s the design of the screen and not his work
I appreciate my walls are all over the place(old house )
Any thoughts suggestions?can it be rectified or do I just have to live with it

I can't really work out what's wrong from the photos - although a tile to the left appears to be out of line with the others in your middle photo. Can you take another photo from further back? What preparation was done before tiling?

I can't tell what the issue is either from your photos, sorry

I can't really make head nor tail of it.

I can't see an out of line tile wowfudge.

I asked him to overboard which he didn’t do so basically he’s just plastered and added the tiles onto a wonky wall!

The glass is in line with the tiles at the bottom but the gap widens as it gets to the top with a v obvious space

I can see from the second photo that the shower door looks out of line - wider gap at the top than the bottom. If it's the wall then the tiles should have been cut to be the same total width, I'd have thought?

Did the plumber do the tiling?

Yes plumber did tiling
He only does bathrooms and was recommended so thought it would all be ok !!

In order to square the walls up the existing plaster would have had to come off and the walls would then be plasterboarded with board suitable for a bathroom. But he didn't do that? He appears to have re-plastered some of the room.

Why do they do this? I had my kitchen refitted last year and he installed a run of cabinets that finished 6" across my back door! When I asked him to re-do it, he started crying! I guess that's your only option OP.

Spam
I’ve already been 2 weeks without a shower(the only one in the house)
That would make me cry:(
I’m going to discuss it with him in the morning and see what he can do
I haven’t paid him yet so hopefully that’s enough incentive to fix ASAP !!

Sleep on it would be my advice then revisit it tomorrow and decide if you can live with it or not.
If not, you need to discuss it with him and how he can rectify it to your satisfaction.

Would it be possible for him to remove the glass panel, after marking where it sits, then cutting the wall tiles on the wall with some sort of angle grinder? I don't know if that can be done as I'm not a tiler.
The glass panel could then be put back and possibly some sort of quadrant beading on the outside to cover the raw edge.

Either that, or take the tiles off and redo that section trimming the tiles to fit properly.

My plumber happily "trimmed to size", my carefully measured, expensive stainless steel shower curtain rail thereby rendering the shower space in the wet room approximately half the size I actually wanted.
He'd fitted it, drilled holes in the new tiles etc but I told him I wasn't happy but would sleep on it and let him know what I wanted the following day.

I decided I couldn't live with it and I sent for another rail and he replaced the drilled into tile and refitted the rail.

His attitude was, I was the customer and he wanted me to be happy with his work when he'd finished the job.
I hope your plumber is as obliging OP.

Good luck.

Do you mind me asking Winged, was it on the plumber to replace the rail he'd ruined? I suppose their insurance covers situations like that?

Spam if he took it upon himself to cut the rail, without being asked to then yes, down to him to replace it. Maybe, in the future he'll ask his customers what they want before getting saw-happy

Either the tiles or the glass are not plumb.

If it’s the tiles he should have marked a plumb line where the shower screen would sit (or used a laser when tiling) and tiled up to it. I’d ask him to remove and cut the tiles (if they’re out). (If the shower screen is outit should be an easy fix providing any screw holes are visible when moved).

Re prep he should have tanked the shower area and a foot outside the shower area (ie behind the radiator (and along the other wall at the foot of the shower). He could have done this by using a waterproof backer board and taping the joints (with suitable waterproof materials) or by using a felt type or paintable membrane over the plasterboard. The easiest are a plasticky gummy type - you first prime the walls and then apply two coats with a roller (plus some small membrane pieces in corners and around tap/pipes etc.).

Plastering reduces the weight bearing capacity of wall - not because the wall itself will fall down but because the plaster itself can lose adhesion with heavy tiles. It’s best to tile straight onto plasterboard if using heavy tiles as this can take substantially heavier tiles. That said if you’re not using heavy glass or 20mm+ stone tiles it should be absolutely fine.

Re tiling onto a wonky wall it can be done. Often walls are skimmed or bonded because it’s faster/cheaper/easier than making up the level or fixing the wonkiness with tiles/tile adhesive. Obviously it depends on how bad the walls are to start with but it can be done.

I’d have a word with him but it shouldn’t be the hardest thing to fix

@SpamChoidFroid : Plumber did say he would pay for another rail to replace the one he'd cut but, thanks to my creative thinking, we used the cut rail by cutting it down even more and using it as a curved towel/grab rail around a tall, slim radiator.
He was very happy!
Win win for me.