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mrsferg70
Hi everyone,
I picked out a glass brick mosaic for my kitchen splashback but the tiler my builder used has mucked up the laying. :mad2ic album is here https://plus.google.com/photos/1058...ms/5989776281302338497?authkey=CNmPxoDb4fyWHw
There was slumping and I could see every join in the mosaic. I asked the builder to remove a really bad patch and after the weekend I couldn't stand it anymore and asked him to remove all of it, reorder the glass brick mosaic. The builder has got the wall back to pre-tile plasterboard stage. The tiler was apologetic but as yet has not come back to redo the job.
I have been looking online for ideas on what went wrong. So far as I can work out...he used too much adhesive, possibly even the wrong kind...the product is called ASA Mastik and if you believe the container it is supposed to be "White, Anti-Slump Ceramic Wall Tile Adhesive". Some American forums online suggest something called thinset which my builder and tiler both say they have never heard of or used. The other thing I think he did wrong is he used the wrong type of spacer and even the wrong size perhaps. I found one lurking in my garden and I still had a small sample of unlaid tile and when I pushed the spacer into it, it knocked the alignment of the brick pattern out of whack.
What to do? I hope you guys have some really good advice for me to make sure the redo of the job works out properly. The builder is insistent that the tiler comes back to redo the job...I'm not so keen.
Regards,
Mrs. Ferg
I picked out a glass brick mosaic for my kitchen splashback but the tiler my builder used has mucked up the laying. :mad2ic album is here https://plus.google.com/photos/1058...ms/5989776281302338497?authkey=CNmPxoDb4fyWHw
There was slumping and I could see every join in the mosaic. I asked the builder to remove a really bad patch and after the weekend I couldn't stand it anymore and asked him to remove all of it, reorder the glass brick mosaic. The builder has got the wall back to pre-tile plasterboard stage. The tiler was apologetic but as yet has not come back to redo the job.
I have been looking online for ideas on what went wrong. So far as I can work out...he used too much adhesive, possibly even the wrong kind...the product is called ASA Mastik and if you believe the container it is supposed to be "White, Anti-Slump Ceramic Wall Tile Adhesive". Some American forums online suggest something called thinset which my builder and tiler both say they have never heard of or used. The other thing I think he did wrong is he used the wrong type of spacer and even the wrong size perhaps. I found one lurking in my garden and I still had a small sample of unlaid tile and when I pushed the spacer into it, it knocked the alignment of the brick pattern out of whack.
What to do? I hope you guys have some really good advice for me to make sure the redo of the job works out properly. The builder is insistent that the tiler comes back to redo the job...I'm not so keen.
Regards,
Mrs. Ferg