Can someone help before i lose hundreds

[mikephillips]

I've just started on my own, and i've been a bit over whelmed with my first job.
I've sinned twice.
The first one, i let the client buy their own materials.
The second one, i did'nt read the insructions properly.

Trouble now is the grout is cracking as it was not flexible.

The tiles are on 15mm ply, and there's a slight bit of movement with the ply.

The tiles are fixed solid, as i've tryed to remove one and it just broke in to little bits.

The grout used was wicks wall and floor tile grout.

The adhesive was wicks flexible tile on wood adhesive.

What can i do now, as they want me to pay for a more experienced tiler

I could just walk away and say stuff it, but they owe my money.

So how can i fix this problem.

I Hope someone can help :mad2:

TIA

Mike

 

[Holohana]

re grout with flexi as supplied by you. Who put ply down?

 

[Deleted member 1779]

Sounds like a bit of a problem.

Just being nosey but how much do you stand to lose? IE I assume as they paid for everything material-wise then all it cost you was your time.

Sucks if you have to pay for a tiler to come in and do the work.

 

[Spud]

this is a common problem when tiling on wooden substrates you need to take the tiles up and strenghen the floor use a cement backer board/uncoupling system over the newly strenghtened floor and retile it. dont walk away from the problem, all you will gain by that is a bad reputation if it is any comfort to you all tilers get problems from time to time try to learn by this good luck

 

[White Room]

I would regrout with bal super flex wide joint in the first instance and hope that will suffice, If that cracks then do as recommended by garythetiler.

 

[brundlefly]

yep i would regrout for starters and see what happens

if you get a good grout rake with a good carbide blade it will fly thru the grout with some elbow grease, then regrout with flexible

http://www.tilersforums.com/redirec...ng_Grout%2ehtml%23agrout_2drake#agrout_2drake

 

[GazTech]

I would regrout with bal super flex wide joint in the first instance and hope that will suffice, If that cracks then do as recommended by garythetiler.

If re-grouting to try to sort this problem, I would strongly recommend Bal wide joint grout with added GT1....this will give far more flexibility....and where did you manage to buy some 15mm plywood mike ?....Gaz

 

[cam_low]

Can I butt in and ask, what is the reason for not using flexible grout on every piece of work ?

Surely that would be overkill and avoid cracking ?

 

[hillhead]

Definetly rake it out and re grout it all.a fein multimaster would rip it out for you if your careful.
I normally use mapei grout which is suppose to be flexible right all???
good luck anyway and try hard to sort yourself and pay no one else.

 

[Perry]

If re-grouting to try to sort this problem, I would strongly recommend Bal wide joint grout with added GT1....this will give far more flexibility....and where did you manage to buy some 15mm plywood mike ?....Gaz

it may be more of a bugger to get off lol but this man is correct a admix will give you more flexibility 😛ete

Gaz u been back to school lol