Hay Que (poquito) Joderse - a New and Useful Phrase

So the bathroom stuff has basically not been bad at all - the guy shows up on time, works the whole time, and appears to do an adequate job. I've got a couple things that I think are questionable but since I love to control the world I don't know if they are really problems or not. I need advice! One thing was that they used "pared" thinset for the floor since it was already mixed. I believe wall thinset is a little stronger and they say it is "mismo" but is it really the same? The biggest problem is that there are 7 (out of 200) tiles that have problems - they sound different from the others so I think either the thinset didn't bond or the area wasn't (and won't ever be) level or whatever. One I know on the floor was because they walked on it before it bonded - the one in the middle of the floor. When they put it down I told them they should wait until the last thing (but they had thinset mixed already and tried but apparently didn't avoid stepping on it). They did have a large board on it so when they did step it spread the weight out. The other floor had tiny tiles that spanned less area and maybe that was why they didn't have a problem...these are big tiles. Next time a little smaller tile would be better since the floor may not be level and thinset doesn't compensate for that. But anyway - it doesn't rock (yet), we aren't driving on it, it isn't lifting (yet)....what is better? 1 leave it, grout it and watch it OR have them take it out and possibly wreck other ones doing it? It gets grout Monday or Tuesday.
The ones with sticky notes on them are the questionable ones. One is under the sink (who cares), the other is on the side of the toilet but the toilet doesn't sit on it (who cares) but the other is where you step out of the shower and you step on it when you go to the bathroom - should I care? Do I have them taken out or do we have them grout it and wait and see? I had them use spacers so there is space and I don't think it will affect other tiles. Is not replacing them just waiting for trouble? HQJ...


There is one partial tile in the shower I will insist they change out since it is in the wet area. Then there are 2 and maybe 3 behind the door...


The door will be over this area unless you close it when you are in there - but there is no traffic in that area - take them out or grout them in?

The other adventure is with the glass wall. I have closely monitored them - I can see what they are doing. but for an instant I blinked or something and when I went in there they were setting blocks on the white track for a dry run....but incredibly had already cut and screwed in the track that was TOO SHORT! I had laid out the wall rows and already snapped all the spacers into the correct shapes for the perimeter, bottom etc and they snatched from the wrong row and everything got mixed up! The guy did a curved glass wall before but apparently had not used spacers (they prefer to just eyeball things I guess) so off it came, I took charge, laid it out with the spacers and told them to measure 3 times and cortar uno or better yet - put the white track down and cut it after the wall is done! The too short piece can be used for the vertical part since the track doesn't come long enough for one piece anyway but jeez... this is basic. So I run down because one guy disappears to mix the mortar and I want to make sure it is the glass block mortar and that he puts in the fortifier (anti mold stuff). I had already piled the two together and marked the ratio so there wouldn't be mistakes. (they prefer to "eyeball" measure which tells me they do this a lot or that they don't do this a lot). Then I told them I was in charge of putting in the spacers so they wouldn't be upside down, or the wrong ones in the wrong place or placed so you could see them (they stay in). We joked around some and they are nice people but I do have to monitor them. So the mortar is not completely filling the outside of the blocks and I am freaking - es mal, no buena, por que no de aqui...lots of pointing. Then they tell me this is the first part and after they put something else to make the lines neat and finish it. I tell them NO thinking they want to grout it and after much discussion I get it - un otro capa de mismo despues - they will neaten it up after the wall is made, dry and then they finish it with more glass mortar so it look nice. The first part is to set the anchors, the metal reinforcers and spaces. So this is what stuff looks like so far.It looks great!

The color is off on the photos but I need advice before Monday when they return. Bust up and replace the bad tiles or leave them and see how it goes. Also, how long before you know if there are really any problems? We have the other bathroom to do and if everything holds I think the job is good enough to have them do the other. What do you think?