Hi guys

has anyone injected adhesive in between tiles that are coming loose.Ie by removing quantities of grout and inserting very good adhesive usually when previous tiler has used dabs or non flex?

All advice appreciated

I think if the wrong adhesive was used, you would need to pull the lot up. Say if only20% of the tiles were covered with the wrong adhesive before, and you did manage to inject adhesives to cover the remaining 80% (which would be hard and time consuming!), you'd not have 100% coverage of the right adhesive still anyway?! Make sense?

One or two tiles will get grout filling small voids near the grout joints as you grout. That's acceptable I suppose.

But get the tiles up mate it'll save you a ball ache in the future.

Nope... but there is a thread on here somewhere about such a said system but not one i would try.

i have never done this just rip-out and re -do, i have seen hollow floor screed patche's injected and work!!

Remember if you try it and it fails it becomes your responsibility. I would pull 'em up and fix them properly.

Yep I guess you guys are right,,best do it properly.Sometimes its just hard telling the client there is no quick fix if they have been the victim of a dodgy tiler.

like gooner i have seen this done on floor screeds but this is done by drilling into the surface and filling with epoxy chemicals,but is usually sand blasted with a cover,so as above rip up and re-do the buck falls with you

Originally Posted by russ

Yep I guess you guys are right,,best do it properly.Sometimes its just hard telling the client there is no quick fix if they have been the victim of a dodgy tiler.

I understand what you're saying but you have to resist taking chances out of sympathy. If the tiles come up and refixed properly the client will be belatedly happy and grateful to you for sorting out the problem. If you take chances and it fails ( and it probably would) the client suffers much more stress and you're then the bad guy.

Sometimes you have to be cruel to be be kind.

will we be snorting it next ?

It might be worth a conversation with either Bostik or Uzin - I can't remember which one I was talking to about this and they were developing a product which is designed specifically for this purpose. Not sure if it will be in the market place yet though but a phone call only costs a few pence and who knows.

My Father in law was doing some decorating for us last week - He drilled half a dozen holes in the wall and injected PVA to sort out some plaster that had blown.... I looked at him like he'd lost the plot but have to put my hands up and say its worked a treat.

I appreciate this is a different scenario and don't think I would ever advocate, or attempt, this with a tiles.... but maybe with the right adhesive there is an option there?

Done the same for an area of floor screed, drilled holes and used sbr

I would replace it all, would'nt dream of injecting adhesive into the joints, I can't see that it would "run" into the places you needed it to.

Originally Posted by SandyFloor

Remember if you try it and it fails it becomes your responsibility. I would pull 'em up and fix them properly.

Very wise words