Some people just don't get karma.

Sometimes things don't work out as planned. I had a whole different idea of what the bathroom would look like when it was redone. The "professional" tile guy screwed up my plans the moment he cut out our copper pipes. I had wanted separate handles for hot and cold...porcelain crosses. I think they look old fashioned and that certainly fits the rest of the house. He forced us into getting a single handle fixture. And then he tiled the hardware in so that we can't switch it out unless we tear out some tile first. He said that he's been laying tile for 20 some years and could do it in his sleep. In fact, it looks like he did. There's a section at the edge of the tub where he cut the backer board wrong so there was nothing to adhere a piece of tile to so he just filled the inch wide gap with grout. If I tap it with my knuckle it'll fall behind the tub. He said it was because there were pipes in the walls and he couldn't work around them. Fancy that. Plumbing in the walls of a bathroom. Go figure. We argued that there had been something there before he tore it out. He refused to redo it. He said there was no danger of water seeping through because the grout would stop it. Hmmm. So why put up concrete backerboard instead of plain sheetrock? Why spend a day adding waterproofing to the backerboard before tiling? I mean, if the grout will stop the water then why did he bother with all those other steps?

The only bright moment of the whole botched tile affair was when the asshole was leaving and a hornet nailed him in the ear. Hubris/Nemesis. Some people just don't get karma.