External Tile Adhesive

[White Room]

It was new brick work, the house is new so the wall was built to retain soil from the house behind...so not sure if the wall is taking moisture from the soil behind also....

It was brushed and power washed about a week before.

It's a retaining wall, was there any weep holes in the brickwork, are they engineering bricks or standard ones

 

[raycarmody]

It's a retaining wall, was there any weep holes in the brickwork, are they engineering bricks or standard ones

The wall was built by the house builders because of the different levels of the sites..

at the base of the wall is the drainage.

the wall is standard house brick ..there is not any weep holes..but because the drainage is at the base the soil can be slightly water logged.

 

[lucius]

This could be the problem if the backside of the wall is becoming saturated it will be difficult for it to dry out naturaly as the tiles will be containing the moisture in the wall and also saturating the addy and when freezing will eventualy blow. Idealy the backside of the wall needs excavating a french drain installed and the wall tanked but probably not cost effective.
Lucius.

 

[raycarmody]

This could be the problem if the backside of the wall is becoming saturated it will be difficult for it to dry out naturaly as the tiles will be containing the moisture in the wall and also saturating the addy and when freezing will eventualy blow. Idealy the backside of the wall needs excavating a french drain installed and the wall tanked but probably not cost effective.
Lucius.

Cheers for the reply

Yea the neighbour would not probably allow me to to that either.

is there any thing I can do to the face of the wall to stop the moisture coming through...or do I need to look at using another method to tiling ...

Cheers

ray

 

[lucius]

There are tanking products available which would be used on internal walls of basements, i recomend Sika products which should do the job, again its whether its cost effective or not.
Lucius

 

[raycarmody]

There are tanking products available which would be used on internal walls of basements, i recomend Sika products which should do the job, again its whether its cost effective or not.
Lucius

Ok champion...looks like i have 2 options do something like this or take the tiles off and leave them off...would rather have the tiles ( well would rather not have the wall there ...) ...I assume I can get the sika stuff from a standard builders merchant ..

 

[lucius]

Check the Sika website out for the sutible product and outlets.
Lucius