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curlycan
Hi all
I have just been told that my quote has been accepted for a job retiling 4 rooms for a big company where I live. The rooms were a hallway which leads to a ladies toilet and a gents toilet which both need retiling and a separate disable toilet.
The reason this company needed these rooms retiling was because the tiles were falling off the walls, the tiles had only been up a max 5 years.
When I was asked to go and have a look at these rooms to find out why the tiles were falling off my jaw dropped to the ground when I had my first look, in certain patches the tiles (which were 150x150 white field tile and 150x150 blue border tile) bowed away from the wall so you could get a finger behind them the only way they were staying in place was the grout holding them together. After this I asked if I could remove some tiles to see behind them a check the substrate. omg I thought, I found that the wall was plastered and emulsioned, then the tubbed addy applied but this must have been really rubbish stuff because you could still see the trowel notches in the dry addy and the tiles hardley had any coverege of addy. This seemed to be bottom of wall and top so it wasn't as if the addy was put on too big an area and had dried out before they tiled onto it,also when the addy was trowled they didn't trowel in one direction but they arched and went diagonaly not a pretty site to see. Also I noticed that all the internal corners were grouted and not siliconed so there was no exspansion gap.
All I can say is this is a nice little earner for me so thanks to the guys who did a c**p job in the first place.
I have just been told that my quote has been accepted for a job retiling 4 rooms for a big company where I live. The rooms were a hallway which leads to a ladies toilet and a gents toilet which both need retiling and a separate disable toilet.
The reason this company needed these rooms retiling was because the tiles were falling off the walls, the tiles had only been up a max 5 years.
When I was asked to go and have a look at these rooms to find out why the tiles were falling off my jaw dropped to the ground when I had my first look, in certain patches the tiles (which were 150x150 white field tile and 150x150 blue border tile) bowed away from the wall so you could get a finger behind them the only way they were staying in place was the grout holding them together. After this I asked if I could remove some tiles to see behind them a check the substrate. omg I thought, I found that the wall was plastered and emulsioned, then the tubbed addy applied but this must have been really rubbish stuff because you could still see the trowel notches in the dry addy and the tiles hardley had any coverege of addy. This seemed to be bottom of wall and top so it wasn't as if the addy was put on too big an area and had dried out before they tiled onto it,also when the addy was trowled they didn't trowel in one direction but they arched and went diagonaly not a pretty site to see. Also I noticed that all the internal corners were grouted and not siliconed so there was no exspansion gap.
All I can say is this is a nice little earner for me so thanks to the guys who did a c**p job in the first place.
