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Firstly hello all, just joined the forum as I've had a disaster and am hoping someone can help.
I've tried googling this and searching the forum but I can't find much (maybe I'm doing it wrong?) so here goes.
About 6 months ago I tiled my sisters bathroom using large real stone (I think) tiles. The bathroom is upstairs and on a wooden floor, so she got a reputable guy to do sort the floor with plywood before I layed the tiles.
I went to the local tile wholesaler showed them an example of the tiles to be layed and explained the situation (upstairs, ply floor etc etc). For which they gave me adhesive and Mapei ultracolour plus grout.
Anyway everything was fine until after about 2 months of the tiles being layed when the grout started breaking up I was away and by the time I returned 6 months had passed and the grout in all the areas that are walked on the most is breaking up really badly.
The floor does have a very slight spring to it if you bounce your weight up and down but this is only visible to someone standing a few feet away and watching you bounce up and down (to the person bouncing it feels very solid).
Also I've removed a few chunks of the grout and it is hard and brittle and does not appear flexible at all? Nor does it say anywhere on the bag "flexible" just ultracolour plus/bioblock/drop effect etc etc.
Can anyone advise what the problem is likely to be? Is it the grout or something completely different?
Regards
David
I've tried googling this and searching the forum but I can't find much (maybe I'm doing it wrong?) so here goes.
About 6 months ago I tiled my sisters bathroom using large real stone (I think) tiles. The bathroom is upstairs and on a wooden floor, so she got a reputable guy to do sort the floor with plywood before I layed the tiles.
I went to the local tile wholesaler showed them an example of the tiles to be layed and explained the situation (upstairs, ply floor etc etc). For which they gave me adhesive and Mapei ultracolour plus grout.
Anyway everything was fine until after about 2 months of the tiles being layed when the grout started breaking up I was away and by the time I returned 6 months had passed and the grout in all the areas that are walked on the most is breaking up really badly.
The floor does have a very slight spring to it if you bounce your weight up and down but this is only visible to someone standing a few feet away and watching you bounce up and down (to the person bouncing it feels very solid).
Also I've removed a few chunks of the grout and it is hard and brittle and does not appear flexible at all? Nor does it say anywhere on the bag "flexible" just ultracolour plus/bioblock/drop effect etc etc.
Can anyone advise what the problem is likely to be? Is it the grout or something completely different?
Regards
David
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