Professional Tiling How is it done

[TheWrightTiler]

65% coverage is kitchen work and other dry areas , in bathrooms it is 100% coverage and floors it is solid bed fixing..

ta dave knew i read 65 somewhere lol

andy

 

[DHTiling]

ta dave knew i read 65 somewhere lol

andy

I think the updated BS is now 75%.. i will check.. tomoz if i remember..:lol:

 

[TheWrightTiler]

after a few slurperoonies mate nahh

 

[spudas]

Thanks for all your advice. Sorry for not coming back to you until now. I've been away.

Your advice gave me confidence to confront first the installation manager of the company, who just shrugged and then later told me over the phone that he didn't see any issues. I got hold of the project manager who was on vacation at that point and told the story. We agreed that she would take a look when she got back. She did take a look and also had an independent tiler to assess the work. The independent tiler came to basically the same conclusion as I had done. I.e. a bodge job. To cut a long story short the original tilers had basically done everything in the book wrong. All the tiles have been ripped up and replace apart from the floor which will be ripped up later this week. This is becasu the electrician discovered that the UFH was damaged and didn't work.

The project manager did speak to the owner of the company and he has now decided to cover all the extra costs involved.

So we are sort of, back on track but I didn't count on being without a shower for 9 weeks.

Thanks again for boosting my morale.

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Thanks for the update and we hope its 2nd time okay!
On the UFH side there should be a continuity monitor on the floor to check for any breaks in the wiring as the job progresses.
I'am assuming it will be different tilers next time round.

 

[mikethetile]

good im pleased you got this sorted out

 

[velcro]

65% coverage is kitchen work and other dry areas , in bathrooms it is 100% coverage and floors it is solid bed fixing..

Apologies for a stupid question, but is there a difference between 100% coverage & solid bed? I'd always assumed that they were just different ways of saying the same thing.

 

[White Room]

Yes, thats correct

 

[doug boardley]

yep, I've always said 100% coverage and solid bed were same

 

[DHTiling]

Well.. 100% is every point of a tile has adhesive on it but may result is small voids.. so ok for walls..

Solid bed is simply no voids .. so full bed of adhesive..

 

[velcro]

Thanks Dave. A subtle distinction.

 

[Perry]

Nothing wrong with spreading the back of the tile (not dot and dab obviously) for walls, just time consuming for the tiler but if that's how he likes to work then so be it.

i must disagree we all have to do it with a few tiles now and again but i have personally always found that it dose not adhere as well thats why the manufactures always tell us to spread it on the wall first then notch it had this discussion with several tech departments thats my opinion i know not everyone agrees