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Public Thread!: Poor Tiling Workmanship by DIY and Rogue Traders

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Here you go. 10 cracked Travertine tiles in a floor due to bad tiling. Travertine floor-Tunbridge wells 001.jpg Travertine floor-Tunbridge wells 005.jpg Travertine floor-Tunbridge wells 007.jpg Travertine floor-Tunbridge wells 009.jpg Travertine floor-Tunbridge wells 010.jpg
 
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Nice one.

I thought somebody must have seen something somewhere :)
 
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Bubble were the tiles blown or loose ? or had this fixing method worked just out of interest ??

The ones around the pan were cracked but the rest were fine & so was the grout. TBH, it took me HOURS to get them up. They were a nightmare!
 
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And there was this one. Guy started @ 9am & was still there @ 10.30pm that night to do 4m2. This is the result the customer got:
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After removal of the tiles I noticed some areas were packed to at least 25mm with ready mixed addy. The plasterboard had been attempted to be stuck to the brick wall with a 50mm cavity with ready mixed too.
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He stuck the tiles to painted existing tiles
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I started @ 9am, removed both sets of tiles, re-sheeted, tiled, grouted & siliconed by 3pm. God knows what he was doing to be there that length of time. Customer even bought him a chippy @ 7pm as they felt bad for him.

Heres the end result with Milford Cream I think it was
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i know that Blob fixing or dot/dab or whatever you like to call it, is frowned -on and not -up to BS, but it's equally still not illegal to fix like this it's just another way to fix tile ( i and most on here would never dream of fixing like this ) but as said i think it allowable !!! technically .......
 
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Bubblecraft

No way. Ha

Couldn't believe it either but boy were they stuck. SDS was no good as the silicone took the impact so had to smash it into a million pieces & dig in with a Mutt & 150mm Hamilton
 
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Not good. I bet they didn't sound as hollow as you'd assume either then. Silicone would take the impact from the coin test too and make it sound a bit duller than you'd get with adhesive.

Suprised the grout held up though. It's a vote of confidence for whatever make that was!
 
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Bubblecraft

They didn't sound hollow at all. Even at the pan where they were cracked. I had priced to uplift them if fitted the correct way or near enough. Normally would have had it all up in about half an hour. Took me a whole day! Couldn't even let the customer know as he was abroad so just I took the hit on it.

The grout must have been mixed with a latex to hold up to that
 
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I've posted these before I think, dot and dab over UFH, 1200x600 porcelains. Was only there to replace a couple of loose tiles, ended up ripping the lot up and starting fresh.

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Bubblecraft

Yikes. That's nasty. Did you manage to salvage the UFH with a SLC or was it ruined?
 
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Ian

They were put down in 2008, customer bought the house last March, I found the house on Zoopla and they paid 950k for it, there is approx 300 m2 of tiling all fitted like this, it's only a matter of time before it all fails.
 

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no using trowel under vanity unit , toilet.... just little dots of adhesive :mad2:. Cheap ply screwed on few screws (drywall screws), some floor boards not fixed. So i ripped everything off, and started again :thumbsup:
 
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DHTiling

I have a few pics of cowboy workmanship...

This couple show how NOT to install sensor in UFH..


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i would use more of that tape, to stick ufc down :lol:

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i would use more of that tape, to stick ufc down :lol:
 
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DHTiling

Did you have to sort that out for them Dave? At least it didn't get tiled over, or did it????!!!!!!

It was for a company that is now B/rupt... they argued it was ok and said tile it.. :) .. so SLC over it and tiled.. what happened after that god knows :lol: ..
 
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DHTiling

This one is on going , so yet to be resolved...cannot say anymore than that but i have it to lift and relay if it goes ahead , after getting the cowboy who laid it to cough up.


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check out the polished skirt edges ..NOT!!! .. :lol:


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This customer was charged £3k for tiling alone in this bathroom by a builder. As I understand it it it still ongoing as to to payment and the remedy for all the problems.

This is just a sample of photos I took when I had to give an opinion on it. I told them they really needed to rip the whole lot out at the builders cost.

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Apologies for the creak in the neck after looking at these :thumbsup:
 
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DHTiling

They are classic don't have a clue about tiling pics John, deffo a descendant of John wayne . :lol:
 

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Line 'em up barman, the horse is tied up outside :lol:
 
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