Help.... The dreaded 6mm ply

[White Room]

Should'nt be using Quick flex on timber unless you add Nicobond enhancer 2002 http://www.ncdirect.co.uk/pdf/quickflex.pdf

 

[The D]

I offered you good advice

 

[Martyn Leeds]

Moving forward, Can I now remove the tiles and use a flexible SLC on top and then re-tile, or do I have to rip up the ply & UFH and start again with Hardi backer?

So you're still tempted to keep the ply though, hoping that it'll be better 2nd time round? I think we should pass this one onto a good local Tiler to sort out. And if he's good, stick with him & use him for any future tiling projects

 

[pipeline]

shouldnt you use flexi adhesive on any wooden substrate?

i thought u had to use flexi cement based adhesive on wooden flooring.. other wise it would come unstuck?

 

[White Room]

Quick flex on it's own is'nt suitible for timber only if you add a additive....the word flex is confusing.

 

[White Room]

So you're still tempted to keep the ply though, hoping that it'll be better 2nd time round? I think we should pass this one onto a good local Tiler to sort out. And if he's good, stick with him & use him for any future tiling projects

That reads better....

 

[mbcmultitrade]

Thanks for all of your angry comments and advice. I hold my hands up, i know I've cocked it up, - I just want to do the right thing in getting it right. I have been tiling a few years now, and never tiled onto 6mm ply before until this occasion. I did it this time round though, as I took advice the builder on site who had said they had been doing it for years and had never had a problem.

Thanks to ATSdiamondtools for the only piece of helpful advice in this thread

 

[AliGage]

I think my van has a bit of a problem. Might get the paperboy to fix it for me.

Had you asked the questions before you cocked up someone's home im sure you would have got plenty of useful advice from the professional tilers that are members of this forum.

 

[Qwerty]

Not good. Everything I could have said has already been said........ Apart from....... Any photos?

 

[Marksmithtiling]

Thanks for all of your angry comments and advice. I hold my hands up, i know I've cocked it up, - I just want to do the right thing in getting it right. I have been tiling a few years now, and never tiled onto 6mm ply before until this occasion. I did it this time round though, as I took advice the builder on site who had said they had been doing it for years and had never had a problem.

Thanks to ATSdiamondtools for the only piece of helpful advice in this thread

AAHH that old chestnut,took the advice of the BUILDER, been doing it for years not a problem !!!!!!!!:mad2:

 

[Perry]

MBC the only answer is to take it up and start again, would be better for you to hold your hands up as you say. A pro would be cheaper in the long run IMO, and for future jobs which need more knowledge.

 

[Perfect Tiling]

Please, please, please...don't say "the adhesive has failed". Its not the adhesive that failed...it was the person doing the tiling. If you want to tile onto 6mm then use hardibacker.

 

[IHB]

Could the under floor heating have been turned on a bit early?

 

[ian158]

Thanks for all of your angry comments and advice. I hold my hands up, i know I've cocked it up, - I just want to do the right thing in getting it right. I have been tiling a few years now, and never tiled onto 6mm ply before until this occasion. I did it this time round though, as I took advice the builder on site who had said they had been doing it for years and had never had a problem.

Thanks to ATSdiamondtools for the only piece of helpful advice in this thread

But you been a member since 2012...in all that time you must of seen a thread on lines of, don't use ply, use cement board....and you took the builders advice !..having said all that i took a tiled floor up that had been laid on 6mm ply which had been tacked with brass tacks to t/g floor boards...it was one of the hardest floors i have ever taken up..the tiles would not seperate from the ply...had to get a shovel and lift the ply up with tiles attached..been down more that 20 years and would have been fine for another 20 !..

 

[Concrete guy]

Ok , I think it's safe to say the guy has held his hands up and has taken three pages of flack for it.

Give him the specs on how it should be done correctly so he can rectify this job (if the customer wants) and won't make the same mistakes in the future.

Any potential new members or guests reading this thread will probably not fancy joining on the grounds it's a really hostile place here.