Moving floor tiles

[arfon]

I need help. I have large porcelene floor tiles that are moving. The floor surface was concrete and had had floor tiles removed leaving a slightly uneven but clean and sound surface. The Tiler basically placed five large blobs of adhesive on each tile and laid them down. He said that this was the best way on a slightly uneven surface. He used much more adhesive that way but it seemed to work at the time and tiles were fine and level. A few months in and some tiles have started to move slightly cracking the grout. We do not have spare tiles so I can't pull them up and replace. Therefore I need a fix. The gap between tiles is small ~5mm. If anyone has a solution of how to fix the problem in situ I'd be very grateful.

Thanks....

 

[Andy Allen]

oh dear.....dot dab is not the way to tile , ring the tiler up and get him to do the job properly

 

[DHTiling]

Hello and welcome.. Any idea what the adhesive was..?

 

[Scott]

The British standard for floors is 100% coverage therefore dot and dab, as this method is called, is not a suitable method of fixing floor tiles. Unfortunately there is no fix except removal.

Fixer error, ring him and tell him he has done it wrong

Edit: You two are too fast!

 

[Stewart]

As far as I'm aware, there are no fixes for dot n dab tiles. If they are moving then you may be able to lift them whole. Contact the tiler as they have been installed with the wrong fixing method.

 

[jay]

:welcome: the method of fixing you mention is not acceptable floor should of been corrected first can i ask what adhesive was used

 

[DHTiling]

The British standard for floors is 100% coverage therefore dot and dab, as this method is called, is not a suitable method of fixing floor tiles. Unfortunately there is no fix except removal.

Fixer error, ring him and tell him he has done it wrong

Edit: You two are too fast!

You need to learn to use more than one finger typing..:lol:

 

[Stewart]

You need to learn to use more than one finger typing..:lol:

Lol... Did you get my wife to take that pic.....

 

[Ajax123]

I need help. I have large porcelene floor tiles that are moving. The floor surface was concrete and had had floor tiles removed leaving a slightly uneven but clean and sound surface. The Tiler basically placed five large blobs of adhesive on each tile and laid them down. He said that this was the best way on a slightly uneven surface. He used much more adhesive that way but it seemed to work at the time and tiles were fine and level. A few months in and some tiles have started to move slightly cracking the grout. We do not have spare tiles so I can't pull them up and replace. Therefore I need a fix. The gap between tiles is small ~5mm. If anyone has a solution of how to fix the problem in situ I'd be very grateful.

Thanks....

There is your problem.......get the tiler back to sort it and do the job correctly IMO

 

[Ian]

As above, poor fixing method. Was the floor primed? and can you tell if the tiles have come away from the adhesive or the adhesive away from the floor? Welcome along to the forum.

 

[White Room]

If the floor was uneven how thick were the dabs of adhesive.

 

[aph257]

well you've come to the right place for advice, but i'm afraid there is no quick fix as has been mentioned above. your other problem being that you have no extra tiles is that if they don't come up clean you won't be able to re-fix 'em, unless of course he used ready-mix adhesive (he may have as he's defo not a pro tiler) in which case soak them in water for a couple of says then the addy should come off with a scraper. worst case is to get a proper tiler in to replace whole floor.

 

[Scott]

You need to learn to use more than one finger typing..:lol:

Oi cheeky i can touch type! I obviously spent too long pouring my beer!

 

[johnryan]

if i were you, i'd work on carefully getting one of the loose ones up without breaking it, and if you can manage to do this, then the others should be fairly easy to get up. if the've been dotted with addy, then you only need to tap gently with a chisel under the blobs of addy, and they'll probably debond very easily. once you have them all up, you can take time and care to clean the addy from the tiles. i've had to sort out floors like this before, and once the first tile is up, it's very easy to get the rest up. i even had to sort one out where some guy had used tubbed wall addy and dotted them. i took them all up by hand, then used various scrapers to clean the tiles for reuse. just take your time, and be careful, and you should be ok.

 

[Ajax123]

if i were you, i'd work on carefully getting one of the loose ones up without breaking it, and if you can manage to do this, then the others should be fairly easy to get up. if the've been dotted with addy, then you only need to tap gently with a chisel under the blobs of addy, and they'll probably debond very easily. once you have them all up, you can take time and care to clean the addy from the tiles. i've had to sort out floors like this before, and once the first tile is up, it's very easy to get the rest up. i even had to sort one out where some guy had used tubbed wall addy and dotted them. i took them all up by hand, then used various scrapers to clean the tiles for reuse. just take your time, and be careful, and you should be ok.

sorry but why should the client go to this trouble when it is the tiler who has clearly messed up????