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These tiles grouted 3 times red body still showing through edges glaze does not fold over seems to edgeHas anyone had problem like this, how did you resolve it ?
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Is the customer okay with it?. (probably not). But if they are , could you not use a sealer on all the grout lines (and therefore the raw edges as well) just to stop any water ingress. Not a good remedy I know but maybe a option. Hope it helps.
customer is not happy at all, she said if needs to she will take tile shop to small claims court
 
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Turkish you know yourself mate only one way to rectify it, rip it out & replace.
It's a pain & good on you for complaining.
When I've had it in the past it's been every tile but got told to fit them so it's down to the site agent etc.
when I find out who will pay cost of rip out and re tile that will be way forward
 
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customer is not happy at all, she said if needs to she will take tile shop to small claims court

Sounds like the balls in her court then. You cant grout beyond the surface of a tile, and that's what you would have to do to cover the unglazed edges like that. I was always coming across it with B & Q's 6 X 6 whites (not my contract I was just fitting them), you would expect it at ÂŁ4 a box + -.
 

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Too many tiles nowadays don't have glazed edges.......some grout better than others though. Not that this is much help in this circumstance.
 

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crap tiles. u fixed what she supplied. it is between her and shop- manufacturer.
what load of poo we have to deal with...
thats my opinion.
 

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Hi mate, know a guy from company grout pro , sure he may have coloured fillers , to bulk out, kf would stabilise water penetration but not colour , will text you his number, have a chat with him .
Cheers bob
 
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Is that a porcelanosa tile? Called cubica? 300x1000

This maybe an old thread but I have just installed black and white Cubica rectified tiles and am having problems getting the grout flush with the tile edge to hide the ceramic biscuit back. Not a major visual problem on the white as the tile is a white'ish ceramic but very annoying on the black.

I guess the only way is to rake it out and have another go at it, but I'm not sure what I can do differently to keep more product in the joint, I left it late to clean up as it was !

I'm using Ultra grout (what a absolute pain the charcoal is to clean up)

On the white I'm thinking of using tile / grout sealer to prevent moisture getting into the tile - is this ok ?

As a quick fix on the black could a permanent marker be used and then seal (I know its a bit of a bodge but ......)

Thanks

Paul
 
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Fitted a load of cheap crap metros a couple of weeks ago with the same issue.
Imo there's not much you can do.... Thankfully I never supplied the tile and the client never noticed anything.... It was more me and the fact I had to leave it like that...
Since then I have been playing around with a few spare tiles..... Yes it bugged me that much...... It did find leaving a big grout line helped the issue slightly..
 

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Are you using a washboy or just a hand sponge. I find that on Cubica the washboy sponge tends to follow the profile of the tile better than the hand sponge and therefore does not expose the biscuit.
 
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Are you using a washboy or just a hand sponge. I find that on Cubica the washboy sponge tends to follow the profile of the tile better than the hand sponge and therefore does not expose the biscuit.

Hand sponge ! Until today I didn't know what a washboy was.
 

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