Damp plaster in bathroom Page: 2

[Fekin]

Been to price up a job tonight, and along the bath theres 4 10x10 tiles that have fallen off months ago and water from the shower has worked it's way through from the bathroom wall to the next room.

So basically, it's soaked along these 4 tiles length, and most probably a good bit around the surrounding tiles too.

Whats best to do with this ? , tell them to have no showers until the walls dried, might take a long time with the cold, and it's a cold house, and I think everyone always has a shower, and hardly uses the actual bath.

Is there anything that can be done other than waiting weeks for the wall to dry, or would cement based adhesives be ok, or what ?

Any help\advise most welcome 🙂

 

[brian c]

Customers like that are a right pain in the nether regionand probably wanting the job done for next to nothing.

 

[Fred]

You got it brian. It was a pathetic shower tiles in the first place. The house is 7 tears old, and the builders put a coloured tile border followed by a white double bumped tile border, which they drilled trough to put the shower pipes through, but it was split and all sorts going on!! My plumber replaced the pipes by 10 inches higher and I reborded the area. Tiling for £150.00p , plumbers pay to follow. And what a pain finding the double bumpy white border.

 

[tiler tom]

You might be able to get a full bathroom out of it but it will cost you on callbacks if the tiles pop. Best to be honest and tell the customer it has to dry out fully in order for the new tiles to adhere corectly. Then he has two choices either let you do it after it has dried out or get someone else in who does the job regardless and has a callback or gets the guy in too put it right after it did what you said it would do.