Hi from BernieA

[Ian]

Welcome along. Did the company you purchased the tiles from provide the tiler to do the fitting for you? Also could you not replace the very worst ones and repair the smaller holes? If you could post some pictures it would help to see how bad your situation is. What is your location? It might be possible for somone to come and look at your floor to give you some advice, you don't want to cover it all over if it's not really necessary.

 

[suave]

:welcome::welcome:

 

[BernieA]

Welcome along. Did the company you purchased the tiles from provide the tiler to do the fitting for you? Also could you not replace the very worst ones and repair the smaller holes? If you could post some pictures it would help to see how bad your situation is. What is your location? It might be possible for somone to come and look at your floor to give you some advice, you don't want to cover it all over if it's not really necessary.

Thanks to everyone for welcoming me to the foum

I bought the tiles from a company called N&C Tile Style located in Leeds. The fitter is my son-in-law, who is also located in Leeds. Although he had been a full time tiler for around 18 months this was his first Travertine job. I live in Thornaby, Teesside.

The tiles N&C had on display looked very good. They described them as being 1st Quality which I took to mean very good, though I now know differently. The ones that they delivered were a mix of good and not so good, though obviously it van be difficult to tell for someomne who isn't familiar with Travertine. Someone mentioned that there was a regulation introduced a year or two ago aimed at stopping suippliers from selling low grade travertine as suitable for floors - Has anyone else heard of this?. I'm sure I wouldn'y have had many problems if I'd used it on the walls.

Obviously I cant really pursue my son-in-law but I'm sure he will help when he can, especially when it comes to removing some of worst tiles. He now works full time in a different job and has a young family so his help will be limited to an odd weekend afternoon.

I will start a new topic in the forum which I will call "Travertine Restoration Project". I will include photos as I go along. Look forward to your helpful inputs.

Many Thanks...BernieA