The disastrous consequence of no decoupling on u/fl heated screed

[Ken Bruty]

Hi all, this is a job I have been doing for the last two weeks, which started as a repair including 9 tiles, but because the floor was laid so badly this ended up being 50 odd tiles, after removing the originals, with 16 of the lifted tiles having to have 5mm of screed ground up and dural ci matting fitted in a vain attempt by the builder to limit his damages, as the tiling company that originally fitted this had "disappeared":incazzato:. The reason(s) for replacement, was tiles cracking due to settlement, very bad bedding of tiles, bad trowelling, screed expansion/contraction, no bonding used and no expansion joints anywhere, and obviously no decoupler:yikes::yikes:. Apart from that ok:lol:.

 

[diamondtiling]

:yikes::yikes: Holy Moly!

 

[White Room]

Is it a standard screed

 

[Ken Bruty]

Unfortunately not Whitebeam, I went through 3 stone cutting discs to get the fibre re-inforced screed up, and gallons of water to keep the dust down as the house was being lived in as I was doing it.:yikes::yikes:

 

[Scott]

Blimey, half that addy looks like is hasnt stuck to the screed or the tile. Almost as if its skinned before the tiles went down.

I hope your on day rate i reckon thats gonna be up and re-laid all the way through before long

Good luck with it

Edit: Nice website btw i hadnt seen yours before is it new?

 

[merlecollins]

Are you going to fit anything before re-tiling Ken?

 

[Ken Bruty]

I had to insert dural ci over the ground up screed where the cracks were before re-laying the tiles, and it's all done and dusted now, next time I will insist complete floor replacement. The people living there were amazingly patient, and couldn't thank me enough, phew!

 

[p4ulo]

Nice one, you will have earned some mega recommend points there fella!

 

[Ken Bruty]

Blimey, half that addy looks like is hasnt stuck to the screed or the tile. Almost as if its skinned before the tiles went down.

I hope your on day rate i reckon thats gonna be up and re-laid all the way through before long

Good luck with it

Edit: Nice website btw i hadnt seen yours before is it new?

Thanks mate, it's about 10 months old now, but I've been working on it with my other half (she's the designer) for about 6 months raising the profile etc etc.

 

[Ajax123]

OUCH!