Bit of info-gathering please? Failed floors.

[One Day]

I'm just after info...
How many times in the past 12 months have you come across failed floors?
By this I mean de-bonded due to whatever reasons. Anhydrite / spot-fixing / heating issues etc.

Seems to be an increasing problem. I've had calls out to look at 6 absolute howlers in the past 12 months.
Always lovely looking floors with a MASSIVE cost attached to ripping out and correcting.
For instance - 80sqm of 900x900 porcelain at around £4000 but then the kitchen, islands, everything would need to come out and be reinstalled. Marble tops on the islands would likely break etc etc so potential bill of £20k plus to correct a loose floor.

So ideally I'd like to know how many you've come across and what the approx value would be of correcting them?

Yes I am up to something.
Sorry, can't say more yet!

Thanks!

 

[Andy Allen]

Most failures I've seen have been on to wooden substrates and floating floors..

Not really the in thing round here to sit kitchens on to tiles, just cut round the kitchen......so not a massive cost to put right.

 

[Dumbo]

Two recently , one just bad fixing technique , two tile replacement . Another substrate settlement crack transferred through to tiles, that could of been bad if tiles werent available . Two tiles to lift in the near future on a floor with random cracked tiles, no pattern or continuous lines of cracks , they sound like they are fixed well so this could be a head scratcher .

 

[Flintstone]

In the last year or there abouts I have sorted two failed anhydrite floors out, one 35m, one 90m. I'm currently in talks regarding a 190m floor which is failing, the costs of which will be spectacular. The marble worktops allone cost over 20k and they are returned down to the floor with resin joints