Tiling onto 6mm ply

[theskiingbear]

Hi I cant see your quote, sorry, could you tell me what it says in B&Q?

 

[Deleted member 9966]

Hi I cant see your quote, sorry, could you tell me what it says in B&Q?

B&Q advise that on wooden floors, 6mm ply is sufficient. you are seeing first hand the results of tiling on to 6mm ply. it's disgraceful that B&Q are offering such advice that is clearly inappropriate.

 

[theskiingbear]

Thanks for the info. I couldnt agree more. Do you agree that we should get the tilers to rip op and redo? They are talking about raking the grout out and redoing with a flexible additive in the grout.....

 

[Deleted member 9966]

re-doing the grout may be sufficient for a short time, but I bet it won't take long for the tiles to start cracking also.

 

[kilty55]

Hi Kilty, its the same job or should i say a redo of the last botch up. No we didnt prep anything, all works been done by tiler. I think given what everyone has said, many thanks to you all, we have to ask them to remove and redo at their cost.

hi skiing bear,i asked because i remember your 1st post about bal coming out etc for the bodge job you got, then i read your post looking for a tiler after that 2 weeks ago

it says that the areas have been prepped with ply and aquaboard by the plumbers and are ready to go. that is why i asked did you prep it yourself,but your saying the tiler prepped it.
were the tilers attached to the plumbers /were the plumbers the main contractors? or were they seperate firms paid individually,this is important in regards to who your going to seek to fix it as incase you didnt get anyone from here to do it did the plumbers supply a tiler for you cheers ski

 

[jay]

any chance of some pics of the floor in question and the problems

 

[theskiingbear]

Whats happened is we had a contactor in that was due to manage the removal of the bathroom and the refit. They removed and made good the plumbing but they got stuck getting a tiler. Thats when I posted for a tiler, we didnt get any takers unfortunately, shame. We found a tiler, recommended. They came in last week to tile floors and walls but they couldnt as the plumbing wasnt quite right. The plumbing got fixed. The plumbes had laid 18mm ply down but not attached it. As it tuned out the floorboards werent attached well, according to our tiler, so the tiler sorted this and changed the ply to 6mm. The plumbes challenged the tiler on this but the tiler said Ok to go on 6mm ply. I am going to ty and post a pic now.

 

[theskiingbear]

any chance of some pics of the floor in question and the problems

Floor laid on the 29th, grouted on the 30th. No traffic on it as yet, bathroom empty... The grout is cracking in one area only at this point, but to me it looks like more cracking is on the way. The minute we start walking on it I dont doubt the issue will get much worse

 

[jay]

thanks does the floor have bounce in it at the moment say if you walk on it

 

[theskiingbear]

No, it doesnt seem to.