Adhesive blobs

[barclay]

Just lifted a couple of tiles in the living room for a home cinema cable install and found that the tiles have been fixed with blobs of adhesive. The majority of tiles sound hollow also. Bit miffed as I payed alot to have 50sqm of 50cm sq porcelain layed. What do I do now?

 

[david campbell]

your tiles look to have been "dot and dabbed" this is really bad practice,it means the tiles are not soundly bonded to your floor,moving any heavy items across the floor could lead to tiles snapping or breaking,the tiling will probably not last as long as it should as movement will also cause them to come lose due to lack of coverage,realistically you should get the tiler back to lift them and re-lay the entire floor! probably not what you want to hear though!

 

[barclay]

No!:mad2:
I wouldn't want him re-laying anything. I could write to him requesting compensation for the re-tyle?. I've got the receipt which shows the tiles were layed in 2004. 2 tiles near a large floor radiator have already cracked (wood substrate here). I don't know whst type of adhesive was used.

 

[jay]

not happy with his style:8:

 

[barclay]

Agreed I paid alot for these tiles and expected them to last a life time : (

 

[david campbell]

it wouldn't really matter if he used a proper flexible adhesive as laying like this doesn't have enough coverage to secure them to the substrate anyway,i would try and pursue him for bad workmanship if anything else

 

[DHTiling]

I've got the receipt which shows the tiles were layed in 2004.

Good luck in getting a fixer to come back after 5 years...not many will..

 

[barclay]

Perhaps the small claims court might persuade him.

 

[DHTiling]

Were you given a written guarantee..?

 

[barclay]

No. I've got an invoice with breakdown of the work to be carried out.

 

[DHTiling]

I would suggest you contact the fixer and take it from there...

 

[CJ CERAMICS]

speaking to the fixer first would be a better way than going through a small claims court. this can be a very tiresome and stressful option having once taken a tradesman through it ( he then declared bankruptcy and i ended up with nothing anyway).speak to him about the problems if he is reputable he will want to sort something for you.if he's not then i would speak to citizens advice first about your options.

 

[barclay]

will do.

 

[LM Ceramics]

had he given a written gurantee it might have been different many people i know will not gurantee work for more than 3 years tops im not defending his poor workmanship as spot fixing is as bad as it gets

contact the fixer and take it from there see how it goes!

 

[Terry Cottar]

its a bit late after 5 yrs imo there are probably 1000's of jobs dotted and dabbed and it sounds as though you wouldn't have known unless you hadn't lifted the tiles are there any other problems?

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