Ditra matting query

[water baby]

HELP I had a new tiled floor put down in February and have just discovered a pipe has been leaking behind one of my kitchen units. The floor is concrete and the tiler put detra matting down before putting the tiles down. The Insurance Company want to rip the whole lot up but I am wonderingif the floor will eventually dry out without harming the tiles. Any suggestions PLEASE?

 

[kilty55]

hi water,how bad is the leak and what damage visually atm has it done to your room?

 

[bugs183]

How big an area do you think is affected? Has the water creeped under all of the tiles and concrete floor???
I doubt that there will be any harm done to the tiles, but i think the concrete floor will take forever to dry out.
Ditra does allow water vapour to pass through itself and wick out through the sides, but if those are covered with units or grouted in then there will be very little exchange of air.

 

[water baby]

Area is about 2 metres by 5 metres, have had dehumidifiers going for 17 days and 2 kitchen units removed. The tiles and grouting is still loking intact at the moment. The water was leaking at the back of the units and did not come above the tiles at all.. any suggestions?

 

[water baby]

Hi the pipe must have been leaking for quite a while - 2 kitchen units have been wrecked and the water seeped down into the dining room and under a carpet.

 

[bugs183]

Send us some piccis if you have any.
It may be that the floor will dry out fine, but it will take a while, and you may have problems with mildew. If you don't rip the floor up i'd certainly leave the kickboards off so that he damp area can breath.

 

[kilty55]

if the insurance are going to pay for this to be removed and replaced like for like personally i would want it done

 

[DHTiling]

It will be fine.. if it was timber then deffo replace..

How many patios are tiled / get wet and dry etc etc.. so why replace a screed tiled floor..?.. c'mon guys think about it... the floor will not sweat with Ditra in place , so mould should not grow..

Why do the insurance want to rip it up for, did they say why.?/.. i could understand of it was sewage contamination but not a general clean water leak ..