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The gap looks pretty even all the way through so if one is level then they both are. I typically install the tile to stick up past the top board of the knee wall to leave room for thinset for the quartz on top. If the tile was cut flush with the top board then there is no room for thinset and you'll have that gap no matter what the quartz guy does. If your tile guy left room for thinset and the tile is level then this is on the quartz guy for putting too much thinset.
With that said, I would find out if the tile guy left room for thinset and if he did, have the quartz guy remove and reset it. First find out if the glass guy started cutting yours before removing the quartz because if he resets the quartz, the measurements for the glass will be different.
I think you're 100% correct the tile guy didn't go high enough to accommodate the thinset, now that I think about it. The top of the tile is flush with the top of the knee wall, so I can see what you mean about there being no choice but to create a gap when setting the quartz.
As for the glass, apparently that was cut yesterday, so I suppose redoing the tile really is the only option.
Yeah so at this point unfortunately the tile guy might have to redo it. If all the top pieces are cuts and not full tiles then he can probably get away with just replacing the top row of tiles instead of the entire knee wall.
Man I feel bad for the tile guy, even if this was ultimately his fault. I mean, most of the top pieces are cuts, but this isn't the only area he'll have had to redo.
A few weeks ago, he had to rip out and redo an entire wall next to the tub. Long story short, the rest of the large floor and wall tile had been laid with 1/2 cuts, and he did the last wall in 1/3 cuts. His reasoning was actually pretty solid in my opinion, though, because originally the bathroom designer planned on having the large tile wrap around the tub and the smaller fan mosaic go up the rest of the wall behind the tub. Doing 1/2 cuts all the way around the tub wouldn't line up with the top of the knee wall, so he did 1/3rd cuts for the grout lines to look right.
Of course, the project manager immediately noticed the difference and had the tile guy rip out the entire wall and redo it using 1/2 cuts. To avoid the grout lines looking off from one side of the tub to the other, I suggested we just do the entire wall behind the tub in the fan tile mosaic.