Retrofit wet ufh under existing floor. - Tile Advice

[Sean Kelly]

Been to a house this week. The owner wants a tiling quote to tile the ground floor of a house with 60x60 porcelain tiles over screeded wet ufh. The problem I have is that the 80sqm of ground floor consists of 8 rooms mostly over floorboards and a kitchen over a concrete floor.

The owner is getting quotes for taking up existing floorboards and digging up the concrete kitchen floor. Then filling it all again with insulation/concrete/wet ufh and then screed.

I don't actually want do the tiling because I know it will be an absolute nightmare due to the customer and type of 1930's house. The customer has (in the past) gone for cheap cheap cheap and most of the tiles in the utility room have cracked to the point that you can not go in there with bare feet! The kitchen tiles are also hollow. So I can bet my bottom dollar that any work prior to tiling will be the cheapest quote.

I have never come across this scenario before. Is it something that anyone else has seen/done?

 

[Dan]

How did you get on with this mate? It appears we've had a bit of a revolt going on on the forum.

Can you not just let the customer dig it all up, lay UFH and screed then give you a bell to tell it?