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    Bathroom tiles lifting in new build extension

    Hi I hope someone can offer advice please. We had a large 2 storey extension on the side of our house 18 months ago. One of the new rooms created is an upstairs bathroom. We had a tiler tile the walls and floors. It looked fantastic but over time grout started to come out of some of the tiles...
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    Sigma Kera Lift, large format tile lifting system.

    so I'm currently undertaking a project at the moment with 1800 x 800 x 10mm Florim porcelain. This tile is harder than Ray Winston and Bob Hoskins rolled in to one! :) Anyway my point is that it's extremely brittle, as hard as it is. One piece in particular was giving me sleepless nights when...
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    What went wrong with this floor????

    So... have a problem maybe some of you guys (and girls) might be able to help with. Laid a new floor in a bathroom. Tiles; British Ceramic Studio Conran Matt White 500 x 500 Hardiebacker 250 substrate; adhesive & mechanically screwed to new 22mm tongue & grove floor boards. LARSON Standard...
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    Tiling to calcium screed tiling - Tiles now lifting

    hi everyone I'm a tiler with 27 years experience not been on here for years but I have a question if you tile an calcium hanhidright screed and in 6 months they all come loose who is to blame ? the client said the screed was dry so top was sanded of then primed 3 times with acrylic primer then...
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    Floor Tiles Lifting On Anhydrite Screed

    Been working alongside a plumbing and bathroom company on a job and the owner told me he'd had a failure on anhydride screed. He said they sanded the floor primed it with suitable primer and tiled it with benfer solo flex gypsum adhesive. The screed had been down over 6 months. The tiles have...
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    New Floor Tiles Lifting

    Hi guys, hope you can help. I have been having a bathroom refitted by a local plumber who also fixed the ceramic floor tiles, around 45no. x 33cm x 33cm. After just a few weeks the grout is cracking in an area and a couple of tiles seem to be coming loose. I am a joiner and laid a new chipboard...
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    cimstone quartz tiles lifting and bowing

    hi guys has anyone got any knowledge on these tiles we laid 55 mts 10 of which are in a porch area all with Dunlop standard set adhesive , the area is south facing and has glass windows down one side floor to ceiling , after a year these tiles are popping up and are warped only in this porch...
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    Lifting Tile + Aquapanel

    Hi Guys, So I'm currently undertaking a renovation on my first ever house. We'd finished all the tiling and I was so happy, but when we then got the plumbers in to finish the bathroom suite installation, they realised they'd forgotten to pull through the waste water pipe for the toilet. What...
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    Lifting ceramic on top of UHF

    Hi all, At some point i may need to lift a ceramic 300mmx300mm tile (has a small chip which may propergate) The tile is sat on the following build - insulation, heating mat, SLC, addy (c5mm bed). what is the best approach to avoid catching the cables? Many thanks, Dan
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    lifting wood floors

    I need too replace a old warped chip board floor and then over board with ply in a kitchen 9mtrs, The kitchen has just been fitted and the plinths are on, also newish skirting board has bee fitted last year. My question is what's the best way to take the floor up? and where do I start and...
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    Porcelain tiles lifting from concrete floor

    We are removing the tiles installed on my kitchen floor as they are lifting on their own. As we remove the tiles I've noticed that the adhesive used is glued to the concrete floor but none of it has adhered to the tile itself. I don't know anything about installing tiles but to me it seems...
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    Wet Room Porcelain tiles lifting - help please...

    Hi I fitted a wetroom myself last year. Used a marmox tray with proper cement addy & grout. Unfortunately I noticed this afternoon that the tiles have lifted a a loud squelching sound can be heard. I think the fault mainly is not using sealant around around the edge of the drain where it meets...
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    Ceramic Tiles Lifting after 7 Years

    Can anyone give any advice please. We bought a new house 7 years ago and lived in it for 5 years and then rented it out. After 2 years with the same tenants they called us to say that some of the kitchen tiles were lifting. Our immediate thoughts were subsidence or water so we rushed down to...
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    Finish lifting off slate kitchen floor tiles

    Hello there, I've the finish lifting off my slate kitchen floor tiles at this time, and would really appreciate some direction in the product that I would be needing to source / apply to restore them. I will be as descriptive as I can be, but am by no means an expert so please bear with me...
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    Finish lifting off slate kitchen floor tiles.

    Hello there, I've the finish lifting off my slate kitchen floor tiles at this time, and would really appreciate some direction in the product that I would be needing to source / apply to restore them. I will be as descriptive as I can be, but am by no means an expert so please bear with...
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    tiles lifting

    just had call. fitted around 10 m2 porcelain 60x60s (porcelaiosa) 3 weeks ago. substrate anhydrite screen... rubbed down and primed.... tiles are lifting??? all materials are butech. adhesive stuck to floor but not tile... any ideas? no pics yet!.... now all i can say is, adhesive has not...
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    Injecting resin under lifting/moving floor tiles?

    Hi guys newbie here this may seem like a strange question but you guys will no if it's possible or not? I have a customer who's floor tiles a starting to come loose under foot the grout is coming away the tiler who Did the job has'moved away' and will not honour the job. The customer states...
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    Lifting up victorian tiles to replace water pipes

    Hi, I recently bought a victorian house and have now found out that the builders will have to dig up the tiled path to the house in order to replace old lead pipes. I would really like to keep the tiles. I have attached a picture and was wondering the best way to lift them up with minimal...
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    Johnsons (for B&Q) 'floor' tiles lifting

    Hi everyone, I am a new member of the forum and wonder if someone can give me some advice on the following. I was asked to tile an ensuite floor but when I saw the tiles I told the customer they were not floor tiles, but wall. They told me they were sold as floor tiles to them by B&Q. To ease...
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    Victorian floor tiles lifting

    Hi. I really need one advice. My husband has just spent the last 3 days laying a Victorian floor. However now the tiles are lifting. Obviously the tile fix is wrong. It would appear to have stuck onto the ply but he lies themselves have nit stuck. What would be the best product to use to...

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