Help please..tile voids - Tile Advice

[Kent22]

Is it common practice to dot n dab floor tiles and once set pore in self levelling compound or some sort of adhesive through the joint lines after to fill the voids?

I only noticed this when I stood on a tile last night and it broke. They are a porcelain tile.

Today was ment to be completion day and grouting but as a tile broke last night the tiler is saying he will fill the voids...

Am I going to have issues in the future and what should I do.

Thanks

 

[Tile Shop]

No they should be solid bed fixed from the start, not do half the job and fill the gaps. Sorry but I think you need to get a tiler who knows how to tile.

 

[Kent22]

Thanks, thought so.

Will they definitely crack or move in the very near future?

 

[Chris N]

Pile of poop. Lot needs to come up and start again. Get them up asap and you may be able to re-use the tiles.

 

[Tile Shop]

Unfortunatley, yes. There is so little contact with the adhesive that even the slightest of knocks will dislodge or crack them, as you've kinda proved already with your first picture. Sticking leveling compound in as an after thought is not guaranteed to fill up to the back of the tile without air pockets. Its a ludicrous idea and if that is what they have suggested they are going to do, shoot them! Plus, I'd love to know how they intend to do it.

Insist on nothing less than ripping them up and starting again properly.

 

[Kent22]

The cutting and levelling of tiles is surely the hardest part, I don’t understand why he has not spread the adhesive.

Thanks for the advice, stress right before Xmas

 

[Perry]

Sorry he's not a tiler. A chancer more like it. It will be problems as you have already found out before its finished.

 

[Chris N]

The floor should have been levelled at the start. Spotting tiles makes it easy to get over an undulating surface or one that's not at the correct height or a combination of the two. It may be stressful now to take it up, buy the likelihood is that more tiles will crack.

 

[Kent22]

The question is how do I find a tiler that will do the job 100% right.

What certificates or qualifications do I need to ask for?

Thanks

 

[Kent22]

The substrate is concrete and pretty much level...

 

[Perry]

Where are you? Someone on here may be able to help.

 

[Kent22]

I’m in snodland Kent, always the way finding these forums once there’s problems

Cheers

 

[Tile Shop]

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[Kent22]

Sorry Paul to keep banging on,

That link shows some of these tilers being all rounders plastering,plumbing etc.

I’m after a professional that tiles every day, as I’m covering my kitchen,hallway and living room with these tiles.35sq metres.

Back to the question of how do I know there qualified? What certicates or qualifications do I need to see or ask for...

Thanks

 

[Perry]

What certificates or qualifications has the tiler you have doing the work now?