SLC in conservatory

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Went to a customers house today and delivered some tiles, as our driver was on that horrible thing called HOLIDAYS, customer asked me to look at their conservatory floor. Should SLC look like this?

We did not supply SLC, and i dont know brand as the conservatory company done it, its very very uneven. They was told tiler would get over it!

Have a look, see what u think.

 

[White Room]

I wonder if they primed the floor as well, that looks a mess:wacky:

 

[foggy34]

hard to tell from pics! but i think mix ratio not right, i think it looks like too much water,

 

[mattle40]

Wowzers trousers!
No it shouldn't look like that! Looks like wrong product was used I.e not an slc so they have made it too runny to compensate. Just my opinion iv seen something similar before
Is it soft?

 

[CJ]

As above.......it looks as though they never measured the water and got it wrong.

Is it crazing/cracking?

 

[Spud]

definitely too much water used ,some levelling compounds come in 25kg bags and require 6-6.5 ltrs of water most come in 20kgs bag and only need 4-5 ltrs of water unfortunately most people who are inexperienced with slc use too much water as they think that by doing so it will self level which is a common error you will need to remove the white layer which is latience and redo it correctly

 

[DHTiling]

Yep.. foggy got it... over watered , deffo...

 

[Aston]

looks similar to the surface of the moon?????

 

[Gazzer]

They have put more water in to make it go further.....looks too thin anyway.

 

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Customer did say they told them they had run out and had to add water to make it go further! It was a mess! i reckon 20mm out in some places. No cracks yet though. Just shoddy work.

Concrete was crumbly said customer. I dread to think how much money the customer had spent with the firm not only conservatory but whole 4 bed house double glazed by same company!

Fitter told them not to open bifold doors for 2 weeks to let Silicon go off!:mad2:

As they had laid a new floor i could not understand why they had to SLC.

We see this all the time, will take pics in future to post on forum.

Like i said they was told "TILER WOULD GET OVER IT" lol.

 

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And the last pic was a hole, not sure how deep.

 

[Andy Allen]

tile on that and all you will be sticking to is the latience, the adhesive will stick to the tile but not the floor..

 

[White Room]

I do some work for a conservatory company and I need to self level over the concrete because it's cheaper than screeding...

 

[Discount Tile Supplies]

THis was really out after the SLC Whitebeam. like the north sea.