Tiling on an uneven floor

[ripkord]

getting tis adhesive off is murder, wire brush on the drill just aint cutting it, a chisel is the only way this is coming off, its taking bloody ages!!

 

[Gazzer]

Aye its a real pain.

 

[Rob Z]

Ripkord, if I am following this correctly...couldn't you just knock down the highest spots in the residual adhesive, then skim coat over the entire subflloor, let that dry, then install the Hardi in the normal manner? No need to scrape it back to bare wood in order to install the Hardi.

 

[ripkord]

its really uneven, theres about 15 mm of grout at some parts, just trying to get most of it off!, both hands blistered now!! time for something else!! like the pub for example!

 

[Rob Z]

15 mm !!??:mad2: Wow, that is a lot of material to remove.

For us, the cost of labor is almost always more than the cost of material, so this suggestion might not work for you on a DIY project. If faced with this problem, and knowing that the floorboards can't be cut out, I would use a feather patch material and skim over all of that mess and not kill myself trying to get all that stuff off of there.

 

[ripkord]

tiles are down, they werent kidding when they said the adhesive was rapidsetting, made up enough to do 6 at a time - got it down to a fine art (mixing the adhesive anyway).

Made a bit of a mess of 1 tile - behind the toilet pan.. not too bad though - can live with it. Giving the rapidset flexi its 3 hours before moving onto the grout now.

 

[DHTiling]

Thanks for the update....good luck with the grouting and maybe a few pics hey.?

 

[ripkord]

yeah will post pics once its done, not too close up though

 

[ripkord]

Finally got finished about 2:30am :/ Knackered today now. Stupid watery grout had to wait until it thickened up!! Its done now anyway. Just needs a good clean.

 

[ripkord]

Just thought I'd update this since I'm doing a bit of tiling in the bathroom again - the tiles I put down are absolutely solid. Not even a hairline crack anywhere. This is 3 years later!! Big thanks to all the help you guys gave me. First time tiling so it's not amazing (mostly due to my inability to cut tile) but were happy with it lol

 

[Deleted member 9966]

Glad to hear it all went ok ripkord, and glad to hear everything is still where you fixed it :yesnod: don't be a stranger...