Ultra thin porcelain tiles de bonding

[Dan]

Silicon to edges, although to be fair some grout did get in as well when spreading
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This whole house had been underpinned the previous year. There was not a single straight and true wall within the entire house built in 1903, looks like I'm screwed!

Do you have any tiling qualifications? They would go in your favour if you had.

 

[Deleted member 52728]

No tiling qualifications, I am a CIPHE master plumber, Gas safe registered, Water Board approved, Unvented registed, part P defined scope qualified, have an HNC in construction management, approved Which Trusted trader, CheckaTrade & Trustatrader member and have been installing bathrooms and tiling for 35 years. I am a perfectionist and tried in vain to research these tiles before starting the job but in October 2017 I couldn't find any information about them on the internet.

 

[Dan]

No tiling qualifications, I am a CIPHE master plumber, Gas safe registered, Water Board approved, Unvented registed, part P defined scope qualified, have an HNC in construction management, approved Which Trusted trader, CheckaTrade & Trustatrader member and have been installing bathrooms and tiling for 35 years. I am a perfectionist and tried in vain to research these tiles before starting the job but in October 2017 I couldn't find any information about them on the internet.

Seems if you had paid TTA to be with them, you'd have been a TTA Tiler then and it perhaps would have been to spec. Seems ANY tiling done now if you're not a TTA member, isn't to spec?

So these tiles are for sure Porcel-Thin then?

 

[Tiler Durden]

I just had to have a look at the CIPHE to see what qualifies someone as a master plumber and that category didn’t come up?

https://www.ciphe.org.uk/professional-members/join-ciphe/membership-categories/

 

[Dan]

I just had to have a look at the CIPHE to see what qualifies someone as a master plumber and that category didn’t come up?

https://www.ciphe.org.uk/professional-members/join-ciphe/membership-categories/

Let's not dwell on that eh. 🙂

Leave this thread about the tiling matey. We're not trying to prove anybody wrong here. We can either try help the guy by perhaps asking @Ray TT @ Porcel-Thin to chip in or somebody from TTA can come chip in. Or it's just going legal and we can't do anything about it.

Seems any tiling not done by a TTA member these days, isn't tiling to British Standard!

Can't believe I've only just found out pmsl

This is gonna make some blog posts for months!

 

[Dumbo]

A report is judged by standards set out by British standards . Now what we have to bear in mind that when building a house your local building control doesn't ask to see your shower after it is tanked and before it is tiled for building regs therefore british standards isn't even buildings regs so how can it be the be all and end all .

 

[Dan]

A report is judged by standards set out by British standards . Now what we have to bear in mind that when building a house your local building control doesn't ask to see your shower after it is tanked and before it is tiled for building regs therefore british standards isn't even buildings regs so how can it be the be all and end all .

I'd hope it isn't mate.

What a sorry position to be in.

I'm hoping somebody with some knowledge can help the poor sod fight the TTA report.

Wondering what else is in it.

If it's just poor tiling then fair enough. What a shame though. But perhaps it'll stop some other people from tiling who think they are tilers.

If he's done it with the advice of the tile importer, or schluter, or whatever, or the adhesive firm, or whatever, then I would hope that some good comes of this and shows a TTA report can be beaten in court.

Because we get a lot of these knocking about and have done since 2007. Would like to see the outcome of one where the tiler is backed up for a change.

 

[Tiler Durden]

Storm in a tea cup.

My honest opinion of the subject in hand is that we will only ever hear one side of the story so pointless even responding.

 

[Dan]

Might hear a bit more because we know some of the people who's products have been used etc. So will see perhaps. I've asked for a copy of the report via PM. Not to post live but to have a read. Never read one before. They always seem to get it settled.

We'll see what happens eh. 🙂