Wall and Floor Tiling Advice for Kate the Mate

[mikethetile]

your welcome Kate

 

[PRESTIGE]

It comes down to lazyness and or poor skills on the tilers part for not getting an even layout. He probably wanted to save time by only cutting one side. Also looks like he forgot his glasses when he spaced those tiles.
Hope it all gets sorted out for you.

 

[diamondtiling]

Martyn, I know he used 'no more ply' but no idea what he used to stick them down. I only noticed this small strip when I looked at the pictures. The untiled area is where the shower is due to go.

Oh, another thing. He tiled behind the towel rail through the bars!! And the horrible looking things on the tissue on the floor are his used tea bags!

Did he lay that floor? It looks like 6mm ply or maybe its backer boards but its on floorboards which is not good.

 

[Scott]

Its NMP Dom, not very well put down either but Ive suggested we leave the floor. If it fails in the future we can address that then.

 

[Kate the mate]

Update on my bathroom. Spent yesterday using an axel grinder to get all of the remaining adhesive off the tiles. It was a hard old job and thought I would have a long soak in the bath afterwards. It was only then that we noticed that the bath isn't level, it tilts downwards away from wall (and the plug hole) so I had to bale out a pool of water which wouldn't go down the plug hole!

 

[Sean Kelly]

Kate, I guess you will be starting a thread on the Plumbers forum then!! Good to see you are wearing a mask. Good luck. Sean

 

[faithhealer]

great pic kate, welcome to our world,
bath should be easy to jack up now you have the tiles off

 

[DHTiling]

Update on my bathroom. Spent yesterday using an axel grinder to get all of the remaining adhesive off the tiles. It was a hard old job and thought I would have a long soak in the bath afterwards. It was only then that we noticed that the bath isn't level, it tilts downwards away from wall (and the plug hole) so I had to bale out a pool of water which wouldn't go down the plug hole!

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:lol:.. messy job hey..


And get the bath levelled up..

 

[Scott]

Dont worry Kate ill sort the bath out as well.


Here are some pics i took whilst it was there

You can see how storng a pick of PVA he used, it came off like sun burn. The others show the bit the KAte hadnt noticed and that was the alleged brickbond that was 1/4" out over 3 courses.

 

[DHTiling]

Such a shame really but at least you are on the job now and so so pleased it will get done right..

Thanks for sorting this out..

 

[Scott]

Not there just yet but hope to get there soon!

 

[mikethetile]

looks a right dogs dinner Scott

 

[Dan]

Kate, I used to watch 'LOST' on the TV. I could not wait till the next episode. Your thread of 9 pages comes very close to 'LOST'. I'm sure you would win 'Thread of the Month' (if there were such a competition!). So many people start a really interesting thread and we never get the follow-ups. Well done for keeping us upto date on proceedings. You are probably enjoying a nice glass of wine now, so I'll leave you to it. Good luck with the rest of the project. Maybe you should keep those slithers of tiles and mount them on some perspex. You could maybe put the perspex over the toilet as a little reminder of what your bathroom could have ended up looking like! Cheers Sean

We used to have one but it got confusing with all the other comps lol. We used to be able to vote on threads and each month one won.

 

[Dan]

Don't know why but I've not been following this thread at all so have just caught up with it. Shocking job. I'm gutted to hear the 'find a tiler' thing on here didn't work out and you ended up with this bloke. We'll have to work on that somehow.

Glad scottley got to it in the end. It'll be done right now for sure.

The bailing the last bit of water out of the bath had me in stitches, nearly spilt my brew on yet again another keyboard! haha

 

[cornish_crofter]

I'd be keen to see the finished article.

As for PVA, the number of builders, bathroom fitters etc who assume PVA can be used without a problem never ceases to amaze me.

I will say one thing for PVA though - it makes getting the tiles off FAR easier. I stripped a bathroom out a couple of years ago to convert into a wet room. The tiles came of in SHEETS! The grout was holding them together. The bond on the grout was stronger to that holding the tiles to the wall.

When the walls were inspected, you could see the shiny surface all over them where the adhesive had not made contact - PVA!