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[QUOTE="Dan, post: 990317, member: 1"] Welcome to the forum. One thing to note with bathroom or shower tiling, is the water (whether condensing on the tiles or literally being sprayed on them) get into the back of the tiles by running down the tile face, then soaking into the incredibly porous grout, and then soaks into the adhesive (just as porous) then the plaster or plasterboard. This then over time gets pulled by gravity to the bottom, and then it can 'blow' the adhesive on the bottom row of tiles because it has nowhere else to go. So I'm afraid you'd be better pulling all the tiles off and using PVC sheeting if you're really tight on a budget. Or pull the tiles off, let it dry out and plasterboard, then tanking 'paint' (rubber/acrylic type [B][U]not [/U][/B]PVA-based anything!!) applying, a couple of layers of that. Then tile with cement-based adhesive, and cement-based grout. Then a 6mm bead of masking-tape-guided silicone just to finish off, for looks, it doesn't hold any water anywhere or stop any water getting anywhere (very common misconception). That aside, it looks like you've got dispersion adhesive there so that'll keep getting re-wet by the above process. You may try pulling the loose bottom couple of rows and use a cement-based adhesive and cement-based grout. It doesn't matter if that gets wet then. Although the water being there can be a problem long-term (damp and mold and that kinda stuff). ps just reread your post and you've used tile and grout, which is neither good as a grout or adhesive, I don't know why manufacturers who lead the market in adhesive, still make such a product knowing it causes so many problems in wet areas. [/QUOTE]
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