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MattW
Hi All,
I'm a regular on the plumbers forum but haven't posted much on here. However I need a bit of tiling related advice and I guess here is the right place to ask.
I was at a property last week looking at a defective shower mixer in an en-suite wetroom (vast farmhouse conversion - 6 bathrooms, four of then en-suite wetrooms). While I was in the wetroom I noticed and pointed out that the wetroom tile grout was in poor condition, especially the vertical internal corner which was grouted (not siliconed) and cracked all the way to the floor.
So she's asked me to quote for re-grouting the floors and renewing the Silicon in two of the wetrooms.
I could use a bit of advice with this - while I've done a fair bit of 'from scratch' tiling, I've never done more than an odd tile or two of regrouting (just when removing single tiles for fitting showers etc), so I'm a bit unsure of timings and process.
There are two wetrooms, each measuring 3500x1500 and the tiles are 10mm thick 600x400 fossil limestone.
My workflow guesstimate:
Strip the old Silicon and grind / clean out all the old grout (I'm going to buy a multi tool and diamond blade on the back of this job) - not tried one of these tools before so not sure how long it'll take.
Regrout using a 'wetroom suitable' buff coloured grout - (I usually use BAL products). The trouble is, I'm not sure what (if anything) the limestone tiles will have been sealed with - they have a glossy polished appearance but I don't know if this is the tile surface or a sealer. Would I better off cleaning and re-sealing the floor?
Finally, redo the Silicon.
If I take this on, I'm going to price it on day rate although with an estimate of total time.
Any advice on good practice and timings would be appreciated.
Pic of the wet side of one of the wetrooms:
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The other thing is that I've been advised to think carefully about taking this on - the wetrooms were done about six years ago as a part of the farmhouse conversion but the current owners have only been in about a year. I'm not sure what tanking was applied before the wetroom tiling but if it's to the same standard as some of the other work on the house (looks superficially good, but some right lash-ups behind the scenes). It's been suggested to me that it might open me up to claims due to leaks etc.
While there's some good potential future business in this property (it's vast and there's nearly always something that needs doing) I don't want to open up a can of worms and take expensive risks for the sake of some possible future work.
Any advice from the pro's would be greatly appreciated.
cheers
Matt
I'm a regular on the plumbers forum but haven't posted much on here. However I need a bit of tiling related advice and I guess here is the right place to ask.
I was at a property last week looking at a defective shower mixer in an en-suite wetroom (vast farmhouse conversion - 6 bathrooms, four of then en-suite wetrooms). While I was in the wetroom I noticed and pointed out that the wetroom tile grout was in poor condition, especially the vertical internal corner which was grouted (not siliconed) and cracked all the way to the floor.
So she's asked me to quote for re-grouting the floors and renewing the Silicon in two of the wetrooms.
I could use a bit of advice with this - while I've done a fair bit of 'from scratch' tiling, I've never done more than an odd tile or two of regrouting (just when removing single tiles for fitting showers etc), so I'm a bit unsure of timings and process.
There are two wetrooms, each measuring 3500x1500 and the tiles are 10mm thick 600x400 fossil limestone.
My workflow guesstimate:
Strip the old Silicon and grind / clean out all the old grout (I'm going to buy a multi tool and diamond blade on the back of this job) - not tried one of these tools before so not sure how long it'll take.
Regrout using a 'wetroom suitable' buff coloured grout - (I usually use BAL products). The trouble is, I'm not sure what (if anything) the limestone tiles will have been sealed with - they have a glossy polished appearance but I don't know if this is the tile surface or a sealer. Would I better off cleaning and re-sealing the floor?
Finally, redo the Silicon.
If I take this on, I'm going to price it on day rate although with an estimate of total time.
Any advice on good practice and timings would be appreciated.
Pic of the wet side of one of the wetrooms:
[DLMURL="http://www.ukplumbersforums.co.uk/attachments/plumbers-arms/6238d1333632453-snowball-job-bit-advice-needed-img_6028.jpg"]
The other thing is that I've been advised to think carefully about taking this on - the wetrooms were done about six years ago as a part of the farmhouse conversion but the current owners have only been in about a year. I'm not sure what tanking was applied before the wetroom tiling but if it's to the same standard as some of the other work on the house (looks superficially good, but some right lash-ups behind the scenes). It's been suggested to me that it might open me up to claims due to leaks etc.
While there's some good potential future business in this property (it's vast and there's nearly always something that needs doing) I don't want to open up a can of worms and take expensive risks for the sake of some possible future work.
Any advice from the pro's would be greatly appreciated.
cheers
Matt
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