I've not long got in from viewing a job some 30 minutes drive from me. Large house in a rural village, lovely couple.
It was a self build for them some 12 years ago and has a 40sqm entrance tiled in marble. The marble is polished, and im told is some kind of composite. The tiles are about 6-7mm thick.
When the house was being built they originally wanted two walls to divide up the space, so foundations were put in for them. Changing there mind as most people do they left them out to create a bigger and grander entrance.
The rooms/bays were concreated 100mm thick and floated/buffed or smoothed. DPC wrapped over the foundations where walls were left out.
After the concrete was left for 6 months and then tiled, continuously, the whole lot. Not too long after (within a year) the following happened to areas of the floor where any foundations or DPC was placed between rooms.
I dug up one or two tiles to have a look. Won't go into how **** poor the install was, dot and dab blah blah. But here is what was underneath.
The "tiler" has gone straight onto the concrete sub and not considered any expansion over the foundations. Tiling straight on to the DPC!
Potential customer has lived with this for 10 years! Some well positioned rugs have hidden the worst of it.
I spent a lot of time with them, discussing options, giving opinions. Unfortunately although they accept the poor workmanship I showed them, they are not looking to lift the floor. They have enough left over to replace the cracked ones. I've gone over a few ideas to try and rectify and prevent this occurring again. They accept that it may and there is no guarentees but are willing to give it ago and replace in the hope it may give them ahalf decent floor back.
Looking for some open and honest ideas/opinions from you guys as to how you would tackle it?
Im certain I will get the work regardless. But I want to put something in place that won't fail and please these people. I have a gut feeling that a very good job here could lead to some more high end domestic work. The husband is quite well connected.
Cheers in advance
It was a self build for them some 12 years ago and has a 40sqm entrance tiled in marble. The marble is polished, and im told is some kind of composite. The tiles are about 6-7mm thick.
When the house was being built they originally wanted two walls to divide up the space, so foundations were put in for them. Changing there mind as most people do they left them out to create a bigger and grander entrance.
The rooms/bays were concreated 100mm thick and floated/buffed or smoothed. DPC wrapped over the foundations where walls were left out.
After the concrete was left for 6 months and then tiled, continuously, the whole lot. Not too long after (within a year) the following happened to areas of the floor where any foundations or DPC was placed between rooms.
I dug up one or two tiles to have a look. Won't go into how **** poor the install was, dot and dab blah blah. But here is what was underneath.
The "tiler" has gone straight onto the concrete sub and not considered any expansion over the foundations. Tiling straight on to the DPC!
Potential customer has lived with this for 10 years! Some well positioned rugs have hidden the worst of it.
I spent a lot of time with them, discussing options, giving opinions. Unfortunately although they accept the poor workmanship I showed them, they are not looking to lift the floor. They have enough left over to replace the cracked ones. I've gone over a few ideas to try and rectify and prevent this occurring again. They accept that it may and there is no guarentees but are willing to give it ago and replace in the hope it may give them ahalf decent floor back.
Looking for some open and honest ideas/opinions from you guys as to how you would tackle it?
Im certain I will get the work regardless. But I want to put something in place that won't fail and please these people. I have a gut feeling that a very good job here could lead to some more high end domestic work. The husband is quite well connected.
Cheers in advance
