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NathanM
Evening, many things went wrong with this first house of mine, I've managed to put most right but it has literally drained every last penny I had in the last 4 years. The final thing I'm now stuck with in my penniless state is sorting the entrance floor.
It was tiled with Wooliscoft Ironstone tiles, laid on a thick cement bed. Many had cracked, some were just unstuck, and there was efflouresence coming up like fluff in the tile joints. The entrance smells damp and soily and so I got to work on it tonight.
As I took up the top tiles I started to see a Victorian tile base below it and had hopes of reverting back to a lovely Victorian entrance. I was soon bereft of any further hope.
http://www.tilersforums.com/members/nathanm/albums/victorian-entrance/29779-entrance1.jpg
http://www.tilersforums.com/members/nathanm/albums/victorian-entrance/29780-entrance2.jpg
http://www.tilersforums.com/members/nathanm/albums/victorian-entrance/29781-entrance3.jpg
I broke out the cement mix, (60mm deep in places) and picked up the base that was below the orginal tiles, which, for the most part, was stuck to the cement anyway, and got down to the black sintered/slag layer that seems to be everywhere around my house when I dig a few inches. I'm working on the principle that I need to bottom the job before I start putting it right, so here I am, about 60mm all round lower the the surface I started with (which was 25mm higher than the original tiles) and I'm struggling to make sense of what to do next.
http://www.tilersforums.com/members/nathanm/albums/victorian-entrance/29782-entrance4.jpg
http://www.tilersforums.com/members/nathanm/albums/victorian-entrance/29783-entrance5.jpg
To the front of the entrance (as in pic4) there is a big stone step, to both sides there is bare brick, and to the back (pic5) there is both brick, rotten 114 year old ventilation wood panel, and a gap into the floor space.
Do I need to scrape the remaining rubble out? Or just compact it with an earth rammer?
Do I then pour a cement layer in that would fill up to all 4 sides to 50mm deep...ish? OR do I need to somehow engineer gaps at the edges?
Or do I opt for another levelling method?
Do I need to put the replacement tiles down onto the likes of Marmox to keep the damp down?
I'd love to just give someone who knows how the money and leave them to it, but I can't, cos there is no money! At the same time I aboslutely don't want to do a botch job like the one covering the original tiles was. The whole house was botched and it's taken years for me to sort. There was a post I found on here by a guy from Liverpool who had relaid a Victorian hall floor that was damaged and showed loads of pics but I can't find it now, and I'm sure it had some answers in it.
If anyone can help out a stuggling flooring first timer I'd be grateful.
Nathan.
It was tiled with Wooliscoft Ironstone tiles, laid on a thick cement bed. Many had cracked, some were just unstuck, and there was efflouresence coming up like fluff in the tile joints. The entrance smells damp and soily and so I got to work on it tonight.
As I took up the top tiles I started to see a Victorian tile base below it and had hopes of reverting back to a lovely Victorian entrance. I was soon bereft of any further hope.
http://www.tilersforums.com/members/nathanm/albums/victorian-entrance/29779-entrance1.jpg
http://www.tilersforums.com/members/nathanm/albums/victorian-entrance/29780-entrance2.jpg
http://www.tilersforums.com/members/nathanm/albums/victorian-entrance/29781-entrance3.jpg
I broke out the cement mix, (60mm deep in places) and picked up the base that was below the orginal tiles, which, for the most part, was stuck to the cement anyway, and got down to the black sintered/slag layer that seems to be everywhere around my house when I dig a few inches. I'm working on the principle that I need to bottom the job before I start putting it right, so here I am, about 60mm all round lower the the surface I started with (which was 25mm higher than the original tiles) and I'm struggling to make sense of what to do next.
http://www.tilersforums.com/members/nathanm/albums/victorian-entrance/29782-entrance4.jpg
http://www.tilersforums.com/members/nathanm/albums/victorian-entrance/29783-entrance5.jpg
To the front of the entrance (as in pic4) there is a big stone step, to both sides there is bare brick, and to the back (pic5) there is both brick, rotten 114 year old ventilation wood panel, and a gap into the floor space.
Do I need to scrape the remaining rubble out? Or just compact it with an earth rammer?
Do I then pour a cement layer in that would fill up to all 4 sides to 50mm deep...ish? OR do I need to somehow engineer gaps at the edges?
Or do I opt for another levelling method?
Do I need to put the replacement tiles down onto the likes of Marmox to keep the damp down?
I'd love to just give someone who knows how the money and leave them to it, but I can't, cos there is no money! At the same time I aboslutely don't want to do a botch job like the one covering the original tiles was. The whole house was botched and it's taken years for me to sort. There was a post I found on here by a guy from Liverpool who had relaid a Victorian hall floor that was damaged and showed loads of pics but I can't find it now, and I'm sure it had some answers in it.
If anyone can help out a stuggling flooring first timer I'd be grateful.
Nathan.