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Rakeshgupta77
Hi all ,
First of all I want to say a big Hi to everyone . considering i have never tiled before in my life , i have found this forum so helpful and interesting , so a big thankyou to all.
Here's my situation :-
My mother had a downstairs shower and toilet room extension built about 5 years ago.
The floor is concrete and had altro( I think that's what it's called) fitted which i have now removed and the shower corner was tiled from ceiling to floor and had a drain fitted into the sloped floor.
My mother wanted all the walls and floor fully tiled so because I had some spare time I decided to take the project on myself !!
I removed all the wall tiles and altro (because I read that tiles won't stick to this) . I have now finished tiling all the walls and now am about to start on the floor, but now I'm slightly worried as I may have made a mistake because I did not "tank" the shower part of the Walls.
I am now hoping that it would have been tanked the first time it was tiled and that it will still be effective after I have re-tiled it.
After removing the altro off the concrete floor I realised ,that everytime the floor got wet , a mushy glue like substance would appear, so I have now wetted the floor and scraped all this substance off.
Now before I start tiling floor I would be gratefully if anyone could give me advice and answer my questions:-
1. will the Walls be safe considering I have not "tanked" them
2. Do I need to "tank" the floor , or can I just lay them onto thinset?
3. In the corner where the shower enclosure will be , I am planning on cutting the ceramic tiles I have spare from the walls into small squares (mosaic style) and laying them so I can keep the slope for the water to go into the drain, will this create any problems ?
Thanks in advance
Rocky.
First of all I want to say a big Hi to everyone . considering i have never tiled before in my life , i have found this forum so helpful and interesting , so a big thankyou to all.
Here's my situation :-
My mother had a downstairs shower and toilet room extension built about 5 years ago.
The floor is concrete and had altro( I think that's what it's called) fitted which i have now removed and the shower corner was tiled from ceiling to floor and had a drain fitted into the sloped floor.
My mother wanted all the walls and floor fully tiled so because I had some spare time I decided to take the project on myself !!
I removed all the wall tiles and altro (because I read that tiles won't stick to this) . I have now finished tiling all the walls and now am about to start on the floor, but now I'm slightly worried as I may have made a mistake because I did not "tank" the shower part of the Walls.
I am now hoping that it would have been tanked the first time it was tiled and that it will still be effective after I have re-tiled it.
After removing the altro off the concrete floor I realised ,that everytime the floor got wet , a mushy glue like substance would appear, so I have now wetted the floor and scraped all this substance off.
Now before I start tiling floor I would be gratefully if anyone could give me advice and answer my questions:-
1. will the Walls be safe considering I have not "tanked" them
2. Do I need to "tank" the floor , or can I just lay them onto thinset?
3. In the corner where the shower enclosure will be , I am planning on cutting the ceramic tiles I have spare from the walls into small squares (mosaic style) and laying them so I can keep the slope for the water to go into the drain, will this create any problems ?
Thanks in advance
Rocky.
