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stakee
Hello,
I was hoping somebody could help with our tiling problem. Last week we tiled our conservatory with homebase ceramic tiles. We had a very thick chipboard floor, so we then screwed on exterior plywood on top. Then we used Wickes powdered adhesive and then Wickes powdered grey grout. Within a day there were cracks all over the grout, so after reading many forums on here I assumed that we had over watered the grout or that perhaps because it was not a flexible grout the tiles had moved slightly and therefore the grout cracked. So the next plan was to begrudgingly de-grout and then use a flexible grout instead. However, as soon as I removed the grout the tiles came loose and were easy to lift. The adhesive underneath obviously hadn't set (in a whole week) and felt like damp sand. What could have been the reason for this? As I don't want to retile and regrout to find this problem occur again!
Thank you for any ideas, it is a 15m sq floor so took a pretty long time to do!
Stacey
I was hoping somebody could help with our tiling problem. Last week we tiled our conservatory with homebase ceramic tiles. We had a very thick chipboard floor, so we then screwed on exterior plywood on top. Then we used Wickes powdered adhesive and then Wickes powdered grey grout. Within a day there were cracks all over the grout, so after reading many forums on here I assumed that we had over watered the grout or that perhaps because it was not a flexible grout the tiles had moved slightly and therefore the grout cracked. So the next plan was to begrudgingly de-grout and then use a flexible grout instead. However, as soon as I removed the grout the tiles came loose and were easy to lift. The adhesive underneath obviously hadn't set (in a whole week) and felt like damp sand. What could have been the reason for this? As I don't want to retile and regrout to find this problem occur again!
Thank you for any ideas, it is a 15m sq floor so took a pretty long time to do!
Stacey