large glass tiles

[NickH]

Dave, would appreciate a bit of advice on a small repair job I've got to do for an old client. They had a new kitchen fitted including tiling (not by me). They used glass tiles about 150 x 75, not particularly well done but ok, problem is that the tiles on the window cill have lifted due, I think, to expansion. They have come of the cill and bowed upwards, several have cracked. So whats the fix ? reset with SPF ? Leave expansion joint at each end ?. Appreciate your comments mate.
Cheers, Nick

 

[DHTiling]

hi nick..you will have to check the cill and see exactly why this has happened..it could well be expansion with it being a cill which will get direct sunlight or if behind a sink could well be moisture ingression...strip the tile off and examine the cill too see if its swelled..if not then yes tile with a flexi adhesive and use Silicon expansion to sides and back of tile where they meet the window frame...if the cill has blown then i would remove and rebuild with backerboard and then re-tile as above.....good luck and let us know how you get on..........dave..

 

[devonmark]

Dave, would appreciate a bit of advice on a small repair job I've got to do for an old client. They had a new kitchen fitted including tiling (not by me). They used glass tiles about 150 x 75, not particularly well done but ok, problem is that the tiles on the window cill have lifted due, I think, to expansion. They have come of the cill and bowed upwards, several have cracked. So whats the fix ? reset with SPF ? Leave expansion joint at each end ?. Appreciate your comments mate.
Cheers, Nick

Hi Nick..not trying to do you out of work..but how long ago was the kitchen and tiling done...should the original fixers be called back..Mark.

 

[NickH]

Hi mate, the kitchen was fitted by a builder/chippy who's a friend of the client, think he/they did the tiling also. None of the work they've done is of a particularly high standard, ok but not great, we are just finishing a complete refit of an en-suite bathroom and the client is getting us to put right a whole load of niggles they have around the house. I think they think its easier to pay us to redo stuff than have the awkward situation of getting friends back to put stuff right. Money doesn't seem to be too much of an issue.