Fixing bodged floor tiling

[kilty55]

how long were tiles down for before you turned on the underfloor heating?

 

[mgillespie]

how long were tiles down for before you turned on the underfloor heating?

6 months ish.

 

[trevortine]

looks to me like the addy has been left open to long and has formed skin, you can clearly see all the combed ribs, i use a small kango with wide blade to remove old addy from concrete but it does carry the risk of loosening other tiles if they aint fixed proper. Bal all the way!!!

 

[jay]

dave you hit the nail on the head two more questions how big is the area length width and did the tiles peak up from the floor as much glue as you can get off is good try a window paint scraper( like a stanly blade only longer ) perimater exp with heating a must

 

[honza1]

I also noticed some ceramic tiles are sometimes full of dust from factory and if you do not wipe them off they might not stick to the adhesive and come off aventualy.Especialy if adhesive is open longand starting to make skin.
This is easy to over look.
However you have god bad luck with that - hope you can fix it well - may be you should concider pro again.

 

[Gazzatile]

If they are the same colour all through the tile they will be porcelain this could mean wrong adhesive used but should have been using a flexi on UFH but who knows if it sticks to the floor adhesive will not be at fault as no one has made a 1 sided adhesive yet or have they

 

[mgillespie]

Can't find anyone locally that sells any of the mentioned adhesives.

All I have found is "Palace TradeFlex". Will this do the job?

 

[Jezclayton]

You say you used professionals and yet the job has gone pearshaped and they don't want to know. You then slate professionals as a whole and come asking the same professionals for advice as to how you get out of your hole? :lol: Respect for the professional manner in which most contributors have responded.:hurray:

If you're sure you really didn't turn the underfloor heating on to encourage rapid drying out, it has to be a case that the wrong adhesive/grout has been used. Either way, there is one solution only. Take the whole lot up and start again.

 

[BDS]

I must be missing something here but i cant see where he`s slating proffesionals,just states that the job was done by them and that now its gone wrong they`ve walked washing there hands of the whole situation.so for that they are not proffesional cause at the very least they could of come back taken a look to see whats gone wrong see who`s to blame etc etc or worked something out to put the problem right.but we are here to help anyone who needs it regardless.personally if it was me i`d take the lot up and redo it all for the simple fact that whats to say your gona do all this repair then regrout then so many months down the line have to do another part of the floor and so on and so on,so best to redo the lot now than mess about later but thats just my oppinion

 

[mgillespie]

I wasn't suggesting all professionals are like this bodger, as clearly they are not, however there ARE some that are, and right now I am not prepared to risk getting another one in to do a similar shoddy job, I feel given the correct advice here by reputable pros, I can make a sufficient repair.

I'm naive to think that this will be the last of the problems, but the ones I have taken up are the worst of it, if I have to do some more later down the line, then so be it, but where they have come up at the moment are the main thoroughfare, and from what I can tell the grouting is still good elsewhere, indicating there arn't any other immediate problems...

 

[Jezclayton]

My point is that you keep referring to your installer as a professional when he was clearly anything but. He appears to have been a bodger.

I could walk down the high street and find any number of individuals who claim to be professional tilers, plumbers, roofers etc. How did you find him and did you get references?

 

[Colour Republic]

I'm naive to think that this will be the last of the problems, but the ones I have taken up are the worst of it, if I have to do some more later down the line, then so be it, but where they have come up at the moment are the main thoroughfare, and from what I can tell the grouting is still good elsewhere, indicating there arn't any other immediate problems...

How did you decide on which tiles should come up mate? Was it because the grout had cracked? Did you just take up the ones that came up very easily?

Seeing as you've come this far, tap each tile in turn and if any of them sound hollow (the sound a stud wall might make) then pull these up as well, if you going to take the trouble to sort out the main thoroughfare then you might as well sort out the rest. A sitch in time... and all that!

Good luck, I'm sorry someone has let you down