Moving floor tiles

[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????

 

[johnryan]

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

that's a very good point, but from the way the guy who laid them works, i can't see that his aftercare service will be up to much. i fully agree with you that he should come back and fix it, though i'd guess that that's wishful thinking, unfortunately.

 

[Ajax123]

that's a very good point, but from the way the guy who laid them works, i can't see that his aftercare service will be up to much. i fully agree with you that he should come back and fix it, though i'd guess that that's wishful thinking, unfortunately.

I guess you are probably right .... more is the pity.

 

[arfon]

Well thanks for the quick responses. Seems to be a consensus that my tiler used the wrong method. Too late now, he's probably not in the country any longer. For those who asked, the type of adhesive used; on my order docket it says 'rapid set flexible white adhesive' none left to tell you the brand. The adhesive was mixed by the tiler and believe me he used very large dabs (for the person who asked about that one). So lads and lasses surely someone has a fix out there. Re-tiling the whole floor again not an option and anyway only 6 tiles are moving out of more than a hundred so that idea seems a bit extreme. Is there an easy way to lift tiles without breaking them?
Cheers.....

 

[kilty55]

arfon there is no fix,if the tiles are beginning to come loose and crack my hunch is that this will only worsen through time,you will not save that floor imo

 

[Time's Ran Out]

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

Thought you must have been in my office there!