Hello all,
I've just had our kitchen and hallway tiled and the tiler used B & Q's own brand floor tile adhesive and grout to stick the tiles down (I bought the adhesive), a few of the tiles had come loose so I got them back to sort the job out but when they pulled the offending tiles up the adhesive was either still wet and stinking of ammonia (3 weeks after originally fitting) or absolutely bone dry and powdery and could be scraped off with a fingernail. The floor was concrete and prepared with PVA prior to fitting the tiles, apparantly PVA is a no no (as I've found out after reading this forum) but some of the tiles are stuck down solid, does this sound like a bad batch of adhesive? - they used about 6 tubs in total, it's just some areas of the kitchen that haven't stuck. It looks like the whole kitchen and hallway is going to have to be pulled up and re-layed as when one tile is knocked out, the one next to it is cracking. I've had the store manager from B & Q round and I'm just waiting on their decision as to whether they are going to pay to put it all right (total cost including labour, tiles, adhesive and grout was about £1200).
Any ideas, comments, advice would be greatly appreciated as I'm now close to tears having all but finished renovating the house (except for a few bits of Silicon sealant in the kitchen) only to find I'm possibly going to have to find £1200 to put the floor right.
Many Thanks,
Simon
I've just had our kitchen and hallway tiled and the tiler used B & Q's own brand floor tile adhesive and grout to stick the tiles down (I bought the adhesive), a few of the tiles had come loose so I got them back to sort the job out but when they pulled the offending tiles up the adhesive was either still wet and stinking of ammonia (3 weeks after originally fitting) or absolutely bone dry and powdery and could be scraped off with a fingernail. The floor was concrete and prepared with PVA prior to fitting the tiles, apparantly PVA is a no no (as I've found out after reading this forum) but some of the tiles are stuck down solid, does this sound like a bad batch of adhesive? - they used about 6 tubs in total, it's just some areas of the kitchen that haven't stuck. It looks like the whole kitchen and hallway is going to have to be pulled up and re-layed as when one tile is knocked out, the one next to it is cracking. I've had the store manager from B & Q round and I'm just waiting on their decision as to whether they are going to pay to put it all right (total cost including labour, tiles, adhesive and grout was about £1200).
Any ideas, comments, advice would be greatly appreciated as I'm now close to tears having all but finished renovating the house (except for a few bits of Silicon sealant in the kitchen) only to find I'm possibly going to have to find £1200 to put the floor right.
Many Thanks,
Simon
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