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I was called out to do a repair on a damaged travertine tile on a ...
I thought i would put this in the guest area so everybody could see this.
I was called out to do a repair on a damaged travertine tile on a kitchen floor. This floor was laid a year ago,and two hole appeared in one of the tiles. You can see black marks in the photo, they called the tiler back to replace it.
He said he could repair the hole, so he filled it with silicone this is totally the wrong thing to repair natural stone with. You can see in the photo once the tile was removed the white on the floor where the silicone was squirted into the hole...Once i carefully remove the tile with the Fein Multimaster without damaging any other tiles i found the tiles had been Dot & Dabbed, you can see in the photo the grey adhesive dotted on the back of the tiles...also he used grey adhesive. This is not the correct way to lay tiles, and white flexible tile adhesive should have been used with natural stone..
As you can see in the photo i used white adhesive and did a solid bed of adhesive onto the floor, and also adhesive was applied onto the back of the tiles to fill and holes in the back of the tile. Once laid it was grouted and i had a very happy customer.
Nice one, I have to agree with the others, and from personal experience, you will be back to replace others I'm certain, still, they're easy to remove mate
Nice job.. should have offered to refurb the tiles to same finish as new one.... is that an acrylic sealer on the older tiles.. looks worn doesn't it..
Nice job.. should have offered to refurb the tiles to same finish as new one.... is that an acrylic sealer on the older tiles.. looks worn doesn't it..
Tile were sealed with this they had some left over from the installation.
Can't believe someone dot dabbed stone tiles. It's bad enough with ceramics.
It seems to be more and more common these days unfortunately, especially in my area, where other trades are trying to muscle in on our territory and doing a bad job.
Nice job!! Cheers for the pics...made me laugh when I saw you were using the exact same 2 buckets as me today!! A small BAL mixing bucket, and Mapegrip with clean water!! But why the change of Shoe's?? Is the 2nd your 'clean' pair?
I'd put a bet on that'll you'll be back after winter, if not before.
I saw a job just like it the other week, but a travertine and porcelain shower enclosure. Went to do a repair. Found grey cement, D&D'd on skimmed plasterboard and 6mm ply around a shower enclosure. Not surprising it had cracked grout and cracked tiles!! Aparantly, the plumber did it!! Just sent the poor guy a long email explaining why I won't guarantee the repair and why the only way I could do it is take it all out and re-build it again. Wonder if he'll bite??
Hum, It would have been possible to fix the holes with out removing the tile, while you clearly pointed out that the dum-bo who fixed the tiles in the first place was not a tiler (dot and dab travertine tiles, grey adhesive). It will not be long before you will have to replace this installation through cracked tiles, I'm supprised that you used white adhesive on this repair as the other tiles were fixed with grey yours will never blend in with time and usage
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Travertine tile repair- Bad installation
this is totally the wrong thing to repair natural stone with. You can see in the photo once the tile was removed the white on the floor where the silicone was squirted into the hole...Once i carefully remove the tile with the Fein Multimaster without damaging any other tiles i found the tiles had been Dot & Dabbed, you can see in the photo the grey adhesive dotted on the back of the tiles...also he used grey adhesive. This is not the correct way to lay tiles, and white flexible tile adhesive should have been used with natural stone..
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Originally Posted by Dave 
I thought you were pulling the wool over my eyes, oh no that's the other thread
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