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spanky · 26-07-2008

I did pay to have all the walls taken back to brickwork then fully dry lined?

deanotile · 26-07-2008

As pacman said “There is a world of difference between bedding a tile out with a bit of extra adhesive to get over imperfections in the wall and doting and dabbing.” There should be no argument even the adhesive manufacturers say its wrong so why are you still trying to justify it.

**whitebeam** · 26-07-2008

I,m not going to say to much just that I would have rendered the walls with sand and cement for the tiling, A totaly ignored material nowadays for heavy tiles. It,s so easy to say that after the event. The last couple of days probably have been highly stressfull for you spanky and wish you a speedy result

spanky · 26-07-2008

I think the likely hood of that is pretty slim.

**enduro** · 26-07-2008

I think enough has been said on this subject, can we close this thread now.

spanky · 26-07-2008

If you do that no-one will find out what happened, better to keep it all together?

Gives someone else advice if it happens to them?

**Dave** · 26-07-2008

Don't worry tony we will not close it...

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I for one want to see where you go with this..........Sorry you have had to deal with some thread hijacking but we need to see this to the end........

Good luck.....

**whitebeam** · 26-07-2008

This is what a forum is about, The views of many and the education of some

**enduro** · 26-07-2008

I want to see it to the end, but to many people saying dot and dab is ok and everybody falling out, so let see what happens. didnt mean to say i was getting bored with this thread im finding it very interesting but i think enough has been said about this subject for now and i hope spanky gets the result he wants.

**sibs** · 27-07-2008

So....what is the correct way to spot fix? Would love to find out the correct method from the "if done correctly" brigade because its all very well saying it is ok "if done correctly" but you don't tell us what correctly is. Would it then give the grout something to stick to besides the two tiles it is in between? And would it better protect the untanked plasterboard in the same way that full coverage would, given that an untanked shower area is not the ideal? Also forgive me but if you trowel ridges of adhesive onto a tile and then push it onto the wall wouldn't that squash the adhesive into the valleys thus eliminating them and givingfull coverage?

spanky · 27-07-2008

Reading that last post has made me rethink an idea that may negat the need to remove all the tile?

Is it possible to inject adhesive through the grout gaps behind the tiles?

If it is possible, how, who, etc etc

Seems feasible?

Could save £3000 worth of work?

**sibs** · 27-07-2008

nice thought spanky but how would you do it? Cement based adhesive is pretty thick stuff it would have to be quite pressurised wouldn't it?