Dot And Dabbing At Its Best. - Tile Advice

[Chalker]

started a bathroom today. The tiles came of easily, wonder why.

 

[StevieBoy]

How can you tell which ones are the dots, and which are the dabs?

Looks like they started to spread the wall in the second picture, then got fed up with doing that lol.

Still, at least as you say the tiles came off easily.

 

[judge]

Looks like he started with good intensions ...lol

 

[Old Mod]

Looks like he started with good intensions ...lol

Probably the only time the client walked in!

 

[mattle40]

I love those jobs lol, u get an easy first day and get to show off and educate the customer a little so u look even better. Win win

 

[White Room]

Atleast the dots are still attached....

 

[SJPurdy]

They started correctly bottom left (pic 2) but then found they needed to add more addy on top of the ribs of addy to keep the tiled surface flat, so then they gave up with the notched trowel. Look at the thickness of the dabs on the wall - if the front of the tiling was flat then the wall definitely isn't. Many, many years ago i'd have done the same (but with more dobs so that they all touched each other when compressed). More recently if the wall was so far out it would be coated with the notched trowel and then more addy would have had to be added to the already back buttered tile to keep the tiled surface flat over the hollows in the wall (I know against BS5385), either that or i'd loose a day (unpaid again) and do the plasterers job for them!

Were the tiles fixed onto the notched trowel bed more difficult to remove than those dot and dabbed? often I find those dot and dabbed are harder to remove.

Crumbs I've just relooked at the pics - one wall is so bad the tiler had to fix tiles in the hollow and then tile over them. I'd definitely would have had to flatten out that one!!! Hope that's allowed for in the retiling price.

 

[StevieBoy]

.......Crumbs I've just relooked at the pics - one wall is so bad the tiler had to fix tiles in the hollow and then tile over them. I'd definitely would have had to flatten out that one!!! Hope that's allowed for in the retiling price.

I have had literally loads and loads of jobs where I have had to do that over the years - even when the walls have been re-skimmed.

If say on a window wall that the customer wants metal trim around the reveals, you obviously have to keep that wall flat and vertical as the trim won't bend much.

Good way of getting rid of all the off cuts tho.

 

[Joe]

Same here StevieBoy. Bad walls that have been skimmed are still bad walls. they may look smooth and flat to people who don't know any better !

 

[kevsalt]

i reckon if you stuck a few mosaics in here and there grouted it up it would look ace really different

 

[AMC]

View attachment 77248 View attachment 77249 started a bathroom today. The tiles came of easily, wonder why.

That's a classic !!!!!

 

[Chalker]

The best thing was that if any bedding out was to be done. It would have been the bottom of the wall!
They made a wall that was out of level, even more out of level. Probably started off out of plumb, then carried on from there.

Might put this refurb into Octobers jotm, if there is one.

 

[Old Mod]

Might put this refurb into Octobers jotm, if there is one.

Oh there will be!

 

[swanman]

still it stayed on
thats what counts

 

[Chalker]

Only just!
Took them off with a shovel. 90% came off whole with no adhesive stuck yo the tile.