The perils of tiling onto plywood

[jstrats]

Viewed a job this morning, , grout is cracking, customer wanted to know if grout could be scraped out and replaced, he thought it would be a small cheap job, on further investigation we found out so called tiler had tiled directly to plywood in shower area and onto floor with UFH (underfloor heating) i removed tile on shower wall, looks like its been dot and dabbed, whole lot in shower wall area needs to be removed and all the floor needs to be removed, this will mean trying to remove glass shower screen without breaking it, removing toilet, removing all controls and shower hose, destroying existing UFH and replacing with proper materials.

Do it properly in the first place and avoid these costly errors, builders please stop using plywood to tile onto, this can be the result. Now you know why tilers moan all the time!

 

[jstrats]

Job was only done 3 years ago as well.

 

[Lee@emctiles]

what a shame, looks a lovely room as well.

 

[lizzardtong]

Pu 40 in the gun that's good choice. Have a look on reflection in the floor tiles they its all over the place. Wonky floor? I don't think its near being flat

 

[PJ Tiling]

This is the problem with the group of builders I do work for at the moment. They always want to use ply, when I say ''NO'' and tell them why I always get the same response. ''Never had any problems in the past'':mad2:

 

[Stef]

As Lee says it looked a lovely job,
The general public need to have a long hard look at themselves & carry out proper investigation into who they are going to employ for these jobs, look at Sparkle??
Saying that my ex business partner used to like to dab tiles on walls & floors & he's still at it..