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Please could you asvise me if using readymix and dot and dab method for large porcelain is good practice on walls in a shower area?
I paid a tiler I found on one of the tradesmen search sites to do a small job in my bathroom. He didn’t come to see the job first but when he arrived wasn’t happy that the walls were not smooth. He mostly used dot and dab which was thick in many areas. I came to grout a few days later and the tiles were sliding about. I removed a couple and the adhesive was still soaking wet.
I’m certainly no expert or in the trade so I looked on the internet and seems ready mix isn’t suitable for 600x300 porcelain tiles (some posts say it may never actually set as needs air to dry) so I ended up removing almost all the tiles and doing it myself with a cement based powder mix. I managed to get a decent bed on most of the tiles and they are solid after a day.
I’m concerned that kids could have been in the bath / shower with these big tiles just stuck on with a few blobs of readymix.
Thanks
Please could you asvise me if using readymix and dot and dab method for large porcelain is good practice on walls in a shower area?
I paid a tiler I found on one of the tradesmen search sites to do a small job in my bathroom. He didn’t come to see the job first but when he arrived wasn’t happy that the walls were not smooth. He mostly used dot and dab which was thick in many areas. I came to grout a few days later and the tiles were sliding about. I removed a couple and the adhesive was still soaking wet.
I’m certainly no expert or in the trade so I looked on the internet and seems ready mix isn’t suitable for 600x300 porcelain tiles (some posts say it may never actually set as needs air to dry) so I ended up removing almost all the tiles and doing it myself with a cement based powder mix. I managed to get a decent bed on most of the tiles and they are solid after a day.
I’m concerned that kids could have been in the bath / shower with these big tiles just stuck on with a few blobs of readymix.
Thanks