A tale of woe, sourcing problem

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pixie2097

Hello everyone,

Long time lurker, first time poster. A brief introduction to the problem. Some 18 months ago we had the Lone Ranger fix up our bathroom which including tiling the lot. The process was painful and it took 7 weeks to get him out of the place. I won't bore you with the details. Since that time we've issues with water leaking through the lounge ceiling if we have guests or stand in the shower too long. The grout has turned orangey and in the corner of the bath under the shower the grout joint was suspiciously large. I did a week long tiling course locally which only served to help me realise how bad the job was on reflection. I eventually bit the bullet and pull off a few bottom tiles, which came away with little effort. The full horror was then revealed. Sopping wet plaster board, black mould. Tiles were held on with sploges of poor quality adhesive. In the case of the two most resistant tiles I found them to be held on with mastic. (The guy is now living in Africa beyond the reach of any trigger man I could afford to answer your first question.)

The problem I've now struck is sourcing the tiles. As you might expect, the tiles concerned are discontinued, were a Topps exclusive apparently, and they don't have any left anywhere. Does anyone have an bright ideas about how to source them? I've done my best to photograph them. The are a uneven matt finish. The colour is more off white than biege.

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:welcome: have you tried 'tiles in the garage' a forum sponsor and how many are you looking for.

Good luck.
 
Hello and welcome... as above try that site.. i wonder what Topps do with the odd box of tiles from ranges that have deffo not sold very single tile left.?
 
Do you remember the name of the tile? And whet are the dimensions?


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cheers for the responses, I'll get back to Topps about the name. The local guy in Topps, Croydon checked the system and thought there were 16 tiles in Camden. Camden can't find them though apparently.

I had a look at tiles in the a garage, unfortunately no luck.
 
Oh no, sorry to hear about your job.
White tiles can be a really problem for shading especially between batches, if you manage to find the replacements it could look like a very strange if there are different shades.
Also if it is as bad as you say then i think patching the problem will not help you in the long term. Sounds like the shower area at least needs totally stripping and reboarding, tanking and tiling correctly. If there is mould and damp everywhere than that is bad for your house and your health.
Personally i'd bite the bullet and rip the old work out, not what you want to hear, but you'll always have issues with the work done.
 

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