20mm of tubbed...

[united]

Started a job today on shower room, started removing the existing tiles and found them to have tubbed addy spread around the edge of each tile at a depth of between 15mm to 20mm :yikes:

Once I got the first tile off the rest just fell of in rows, only the grout holding them on.

Here are some photos too...







:ban:

 

[DHTiling]

:yikes::yikes::yikes::yikes:

 

[Gazzer]

Cheers , Stole those images for an album of bad tiling . :yikes:

 

[united]

Cheers , Stole those images for an album of bad tiling . :yikes:

they certainly deserve to be in there

 

[DHTiling]

You want some more neale..?

i found some in a file on my pc that i forgot about..

 

[Colour Republic]

:yikes::yikes::yikes::yikes::yikes::yikes:

 

[DHTiling]

Here use these as well..

 

[SandyFloor]

I know a couple of guys that dot & dab all their walls. The problem is they're very good at it and the job looks great when they're finished. I've argued with them but it's :mad2:.

I haven't seen their work a year or so on but I'd like to. Needless to say I haven't recommended them but I know many have.

 

[Gazzer]

You want some more neale..?

i found some in a file on my pc that i forgot about..

Consider them stolen

 

[The D]

that is a new one on me just the edges hummmmmmmm.

 

[SandyFloor]

that is a new one on me just the edges hummmmmmmm.

Very handy for drumming in the shower.

 

[faithhealer]

come across a few bathrooms like that mark, even better when you see the dot and dab imprints in the once damp plaster

 

[Rob Z]

Mark, we had one job about 3 years ago where the previous contractor used mastic to level the floors. :yikes: I knew what we would find before we even started the demo because the customer told me "they had fans running for days and the floor leveling compound would dry" .:mad2: They had charged her extra for having to lose days off of their schedule and said it was "the conditions in her condo that caused the problem".

We got the tile off of the mastic which had by that time turned to a rubbery sheet. We peeled the entire sheet off the slab in about 6 or 7 pieces.

Like your job, average thickness ~1/2" to 3/4" .

I have pictures of that disaster of a job somewhere, and if I find them I'll post them.

 

[Alan.P]

I tiled a bathroom in Tooting a while back, that was almost the same, addy around the edges but there was also a dot in the centre of the tile as well :ban:

 

[Richard Edwards]

Uch :incazzato: what on earth do people think there trying to do with things like that. In my experience, most of these awful practices are DIY efforts although some are also so called ' trade ' [Not sure what trade ?]

That said if you look at the tiles in the photo No1 they are in contact with the addy to about 50% - so its why they have not fallen off before. Mind you, it would have taken several weeks to dry out !

That said how many of you have fixed 1000mm x 333mm tiles and similar large format porcelain. What method to you use ? I tell you what we do after I've had a few offerings.

Richard