Dot & Dabbed Porcelain tiles - job in progress

[arc]

re: Dot & Dabbed Porceliain tiles - job in progress

Thanks chaps. As I feared.
Six hours after they were laid I had a go at lifting them. Of the Sixty six tiles laid, just three broke and they were the ones which were laid before switching to the dot & dab method.
Sadly the SLC has come away in about six areas pulling up the Ditra matting.

So now I'm in a position of having to get the whole lot back up again. And I'm dreading it.
Further questions to follow once Tomorrow is out of the way.

Thanks for the suport so far.....

 

[hillhead]

re: Dot & Dabbed Porceliain tiles - job in progress

So wrong !!!!!!All said above, don't let it go any further.This has let this so called tiler down a bag full.Terrible for you.

 

[Andy Tiler]

re: Dot & Dabbed Porceliain tiles - job in progress

i cant belive my eyes wtf! how are these cowboys getting the work!!! and screeding ontop of a decoupling membrane is defeating the object.

 

[Perry]

re: Dot & Dabbed Porceliain tiles - job in progress

On pic 5 what are the small squares behind the tiles?

Arc is that some sort of wooden flooring or vinyl

 

[Mike]

re: Dot & Dabbed Porceliain tiles - job in progress

i can't understand why he went to the trouble of dot and dabbing when it would have been easier to do it properly . you can see the floor is lovely and flat. good luck with rectifying it. pity you never came on here for advice before you employed him. you will be able to find a tiler on here if you want to

 

[Stewart]

Arc is that some sort of wooden flooring or vinyl

That's the Ditra under the slc....


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[arc]

re: Dot & Dabbed Porceliain tiles - job in progress

PJC - the small squares you see are just visible signs of where the ditra matting is.
Mike - To be honest until I ran aground I had no idea Tiling forums even existed!

 

[Stewart]

i can't understand why he went to the trouble of dot and dabbing when it would have been easier to do it properly . you can see the floor is lovely and flat. good luck with rectifying it. pity you never came on here for advice before you employed him. you will be able to find a tiler on here if you want to

I think that's where the problem lies..... It looks nice a flat, but tthe fixer has just gone through the motions of levelling the floor. I bet there was no staff or laser used and the whole floor was just given a 2mm skim on top of the Ditra...


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[Perry]

re: Dot & Dabbed Porceliain tiles - job in progress

He he I use something else the pattern must of changed since I last used it

 

[Bathfix Bob]

re: Dot & Dabbed Porceliain tiles - job in progress

Hi arc

Have you told the fixer yet that you have removed tiles, or are you waiting for him to come in the morning?

Don't forget you are in the right, don't let him fob you off with any of this 'grout will fill the voids' nonsense.

 

[Perry]

re: Dot & Dabbed Porceliain tiles - job in progress

I didn't think you were meant to pre fill the voids ditra mating thought you had to fill with adhesive in one go

 

[Colour Republic]

re: Dot & Dabbed Porceliain tiles - job in progress

I'm totally confused!

From your spec you're saying the guy ditra'd the floor, then SLC'd, then dot and dabbed? It seems a very wierd spec. For sombody to go to those lengths then mess up the laying of the tiles seems totally strange? Maybe they read that spec online (maybe even on here!) and completely mis-understood the methods, stages and order involved???

Now you say the tiles are 400x400 and yet they are made to look like 200x200's pre grouted?? I don't mean to appear rude but those tiles can't of cost much per square meter. That is no excuse for poor fixing but the ditra and SLC would I guess be far more £££'s per square meter than the tiles themselves. It just seems very wrong to me.

I'm still trying to get my head round this one and that's before we get to the D&D!!!!

I'm going to bed!

 

[Tabby Cranks]

re: Dot & Dabbed Porceliain tiles - job in progress

At least he didn't spot fix the ditra.
Totally shocking.

 

[arc]

re: Dot & Dabbed Porceliain tiles - job in progress

Now you say the tiles are 400x400 and yet they are made to look like 200x200's pre grouted?? I don't mean to appear rude but those tiles can't of cost much per square meter. That is no excuse for poor fixing but the ditra and SLC would I guess be far more £££'s per square meter than the tiles themselves. It just seems very wrong to me.

Well OK the tiles aren't expensive. We found nothing we liked at 3 tile shops and these ones for Wickes were on sale and in the right style. We don't have the finances to buy top end tiles.

Today's update is that the job has now been terminated and monies paid for materials are being returned.
I'm going to be cleaning up the mess myself. What may be the largest problem is that the adhesive used to stick down the Ditra is still soft. All in all a bit of a catalogue of errors.

 

[Bathfix Bob]

re: Dot & Dabbed Porceliain tiles - job in progress

Interesting, what was his excuse for his fixing method?