15% off at right price tiles nationwide

AckwelFoley

Print off this e voucher for 15% off in store.

It's particularly good value if you're considering buying a stove.

The voucher is available on the website too

CreepingDeath

Word of warning about Right Price Tiles... if you overestimate grout and tile adhesive, they won't take it back, even if it's unused.

Lengthy Terms and Conditions

I paid a lot of money to them to get the materials to tile 2 bathrooms.
The girlfriends father wanted to use tub (pre-mixed) tile adhesive.
But he done his back in and I had to get a professional tiler.
He preferred/insisted on the normal mixable tile adhesive, but Right Price Tiles wouldn't return it or offer an exchange.
So I ended up wasting/losing about €200 with them.

flyguy

Don't right price tiles still have a sale on? The voucher says it can't be used icw any other promotion or discount so I don't I think it will be of much use in the sale...
Also yes they don't take back grout/adhesive but like you said it says so in the t&c and in my case it even said so on the receipt (specifically mentioned next to each item they wouldn't take back).
Bought some stuff of them last month but would advise to shop around for the extras (adhesive/grout) especially tile trims. Got them for a lot less in showhouse tiles on long mile road (about 30% cheaper). Also note that displayed prices in right price are per sq/yard (sq/mtr in small print) which makes it look a better deal than shops that advertise sq/mtr. They have good deals but as usual you get what you pay for; got a large quantity of porcelain tiles (from 2 different batches). The tiles were about 50% cheaper than anywhere else but they were also all slightly warped...

paddy147

AckwelFoley wrote: »

Print off this e voucher for 15% off in store.

It's particularly good value if you're considering buying a stove.

The voucher is available on the website too

Or you could buy a stove from a reputible stove/fireplace centre and deal with people who know what they are actually talking about with regards stoves.

PC CDROM

op may work for them....

Snowc

PC CDROM wrote: »

op may work for them....

Id say theres no maybe about it , awful smell of shill resonating from this thread

grange mac

They must be feeling the recession as their sale (monthly) usually had upto 70% off the RRP (rip off) prices they have displayed.
Sorry op 15% is worthless in there.

Soarer

MONKAY!!!!

dodzy

CreepingDeath wrote: »

Word of warning about Right Price Tiles... if you overestimate grout and tile adhesive, they won't take it back, even if it's unused.

Lengthy Terms and Conditions

I paid a lot of money to them to get the materials to tile 2 bathrooms.
The girlfriends father wanted to use tub (pre-mixed) tile adhesive.
But he done his back in and I had to get a professional tiler.
He preferred/insisted on the normal mixable tile adhesive, but Right Price Tiles wouldn't return it or offer an exchange.
So I ended up wasting/losing about €200 with them.

Never had an issue returning stuff and always got a refund. Coolmine store. That said, adhesive and trims are a ripoff here. RPT are much more competitive.

bennyc

My mate worked there for a while , they are in Sale 48 weeks of the year, he said by law you must be 4 weeks not in sale to legally call it a sale.

ozmo

flyguy wrote: »

They have good deals but as usual you get what you pay for; got a large quantity of porcelain tiles (from 2 different batches). The tiles were about 50% cheaper than anywhere else but they were also all slightly warped...

I got a good deal on porcelain floor tiles there last month - less than half the price of same elsewhere and I tried lots places - all tiles were so perfect I managed to put them down with only 1mm grout gap spacers. Shop assistants were helpful and mentioned the no return on glues policy as I was purchasing which is fair enough. Very pleased with result.

paddy147

ozmo wrote: »

I got a good deal on porcelain floor tiles there last month - less than half the price of same elsewhere and I tried lots places - all tiles were so perfect I managed to put them down with only 1mm grout gap spacers. Shop assistants were helpful and mentioned the no return on glues policy as I was purchasing which is fair enough. Very pleased with result.

Thats all well and good for TILES...hense their name.

But they havent a bloody clue with regards STOVES..and I speak from 1st hand experience of dealing with them and listening to their waffle.:eek::rolleyes:

So 1 word is to AVOID

AckwelFoley

paddy147 wrote: »

Thats all well and good for TILES...hense their name.

But they havent a bloody clue with regards STOVES..and I speak from 1st hand experience of dealing with them and listening to their waffle.:eek::rolleyes:

So 1 word is to AVOID

What happened?

paddy147

AckwelFoley wrote: »

What happened?

Well,I walked out of the shop and went to a propper stove/fireplace shop who actually know about stove instalation and how a stove actually works.

xpletiv

Tiles and paint shops have yearlong sales on. Fact.

AckwelFoley

paddy147 wrote: »

Well,I walked out of the shop and went to a propper stove/fireplace shop who actually know about stove instalation and how a stove actually works.

.. and I bet you 20 quid the stove was still fitted incorrectly. Ive fitted many stoves and worked in the building industry for over 15 years. I've seen what some "qualified" plumbers have done and they should be jailed.

So "knowledge" is rather relative.

flyguy

ozmo wrote: »

I got a good deal on porcelain floor tiles there last month - less than half the price of same elsewhere and I tried lots places - all tiles were so perfect I managed to put them down with only 1mm grout gap spacers

I guess you got lucky (or I was unlucky). Wanted a 1mm gap myself but tiler said this would be impossible with the warped tiles combined with "brick style" pattern, so had to go for 3mm (600x300 cream tiles btw) Tiler said he'd seen this before with tiles from right price. As I said before I got the tiles from 2 separate batches as well so it wasn't just bad luck in my case.
I'm still happy with the result (and price) but just wanted to give the full story. So yes get the tiles in right price but if you can go elsewhere for adhesive, grout, edging and borders (these items are usually excluded from the sale as well).
I did get almost all my stuff from right price and only realised after I paid well over the odds for those extras...

AckwelFoley

If you look at the back of all 60 x 30 tiles theres a single arrow pointing in a particular direction. That's because the tiles need to be layed in that direction.

All porcelain Tiles have a small cambre in them more particlar on one edge. It's due to the manufacture process and is in all tiles that are that size. . . Regardless of where you get them.

If you find one without a cambre I'll eat it.

If a shop sells you tiles from a different batch you need to make a complaint.

I WOULD NEVER accept different batches of tiles. It's wholly unacceptable. Batches have different colours and thickness sometines un noticeable other times very obvious.

CreepingDeath

Oh yeah... another thing about Right Price Tiles...

As a layperson, I drew up the floor/room plans for both bathrooms which needed floor to ceiling tiling.
I drew in the area of the bath, windows & doors, thinking the more detail the better and leave it to the people in the trade to work it out.

Anyway, I presented these plans to the guys in Right Price Tiles ( Fonthill ) and they subtracted the area for the bath, doors and windows.

But the professional tiler ( who done a perfect job I have to say), ran out of tiles and cursed them for "subtracting the doors and windows".

Luckily, after a few phone calls to various other branches of Right Price Tiles, we got a batch of tiles to finish the job, which wasn't the same colour code, but worked nonetheless. ( I will grant that it was a couple of months after the initial purchase )

So it's best not to order tiles off them until the tiler confirms the number of boxes you need. Don't rely on them to work out it out.

flyguy

AckwelFoley wrote: »

If a shop sells you tiles from a different batch you need to make a complaint.

I WOULD NEVER accept different batches of tiles. It's wholly unacceptable. Batches have different colours and thickness sometines un noticeable other times very obvious.

Ok we're going a bit of thread now...
The tiler I used has years of experience so I think he knows his stuff, if he's says they're warped I'm likely to believe him (I also assume he knows about the arrow thing and the other stuff you mentioned).
There's a bit more to the 2 batches story; that was my choice (not right price). They were used for 2 bathrooms so 1 batch for each (not mixed). Reason for 2 batches was they didnt have enough in stock for both and I couldnt wait. So took enough for bathroom 1, got batch 2 later for room 2. Only mentioned it cause both batches were warped.
Like I said nothing against right price tiles and happy with what I got (cause of the price). Would go there again.

AckwelFoley

The "working out" is pretty simple.

Wall area minus door area x 10%

10% is the standard amount extra allowed for waste. I've always calculated this 10% for laying wood floors tiles etc.

The door is taken out but the Windows should not be.

AckwelFoley

flyguy wrote: »

Ok we're going a bit of thread now...
The tiler I used has years of experience so I think he knows his stuff, if he's says they're warped I'm likely to believe him (I also assume he knows about the arrow thing and the other stuff you mentioned)..

One thing ive learned is never assume anything.

Ive seen some horrific work in all trades by "tradesmen" with "years of experience"

The tradesmen that built that wall in Longford that collapsed killing 2 men last week had plenty of experience too. There are houses in this country built in the boom that should be condemned.

Sorry if I sound cynical but literally day in day out im getting told what some "qualified" professional are doing

Year of experience means nothing if they're doing things wrong. .. for years.

paddy147

AckwelFoley wrote: »

.. and I bet you 20 quid the stove was still fitted incorrectly. Ive fitted many stoves and worked in the building industry for over 15 years. I've seen what some "qualified" plumbers have done and they should be jailed.

So "knowledge" is rather relative.

I love how you are defending RPT to the hilt here......:pac:


Actually I have a Stovax Riva 66 multi fuel inset stove fitted.

Chimney breast was demolished and a new one built to fit this particular stove.

I was enquiring on a stove for a family member and their house.

I will not be going back to RPT or reccomending them to anyone who is looking for a stove or advice.


RUN and AVOID.

JUSTsomeBLOKE!

I work in rpt myself and our store has no problem returning grout and adhesive once its within date and obviously not used. a lot of customers don't actually read the T&C before coming into the store with returnable goods... as for with the stoves they are only new in most stores so we are still learning about them if we do not know the answer we are told to ask someone who does.

CreepingDeath

JUSTsomeBLOKE! wrote: »

I work in rpt myself and our store has no problem returning grout and adhesive once its within date and obviously not used.

You mustn't work in Fonthill then.

flyguy

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