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White Room
I clean as I go, can't believe the state of some of these paddles😕
You're hitting it too hard
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Joseph Kover
Adhesive come off with grinder.not the sweetest job ever but still better than buying new tiles.
May I ask what did you make to choose him/them?
Many clientry try to look for budget workers then calling later to fix their issues.everybody learn from their own experiences. Most problems turns out just a year later when tiles come off by hand only.you were lucky to notice early on
Not sure about others but for a while now I mix proflex primer in the ashesive on all jobs.good luck to remove them 😉
May I ask what did you make to choose him/them?
Many clientry try to look for budget workers then calling later to fix their issues.everybody learn from their own experiences. Most problems turns out just a year later when tiles come off by hand only.you were lucky to notice early on
Not sure about others but for a while now I mix proflex primer in the ashesive on all jobs.good luck to remove them 😉
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Archie69
TF
Hi Joseph, the chap in question was recommended to me from another person I know who is also in the trade, I have since had a (discussion) with him and let him know the situation. He won't be getting any more recommendations from him. This guy could have got a lot of work as we where looking for someone to replace our normal guy who unfortunately has had to give up tiling at a very early age due to an illness. Money was not an issue, ie trying to get a job done on the cheap. I believe in a fair days money for a fair days work. Also you have to start somewhere, and as a busy company I have not got the time to go to look at previous work he had done, I did however look at some of his so called previous jobs on his web site portfolio. Obviously that did not prove correct which I've learnt the hard way. Well! That's enough of that. I hope people out there have gained some good out of this thread, and anyone can get caught out, as previously mentioned I have been plumbing for 35 years and don't class myself as a laymen.
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Joseph Kover
Hi there,fair enough.I just thought to ask the the "other side" as I am on the trader side just by healthy curiosity. Thanks for the answer
Archie69
TF
Yep!! His trowel which I assume at one time would have been a five mil notch, was down to nil mm, he may as well have just put it on with brickys trowel, but a bricky would have covered the complete tile rather than the middle with none on the edges.! His mixer was fairly new so that did not see many other jobs. His radio was spotless though!
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Syd Langston
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MW Smith Ceramics
Looking at the adhesive on the back of that tile says BAD PRACTICE to me.....should be 100% coverage on the back of the tile and the substrate, no wonder it sounds hollow!.......get these cowboys out of the tiling industry
crikey that's some serious lippage!.....get that cowboy off site now!!!!.....' Holy smokes that is truly shocking !....shouldn't be tiling.....end ov
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trustiling
TF
Quick spin in a bucket of water then a nylon brush for 30 secs after every mix (well the lad does anyway!) maybe hammer and chisel it back every couple of months. Still using the same paddle for a couple of years.
Real shame about the bad job but good you caught it early on enough
Real shame about the bad job but good you caught it early on enough
Archie69
TF
Hi dan, everyone, I took all the tiles off and bagged them, have bought new tiles and am in the process, or the tiler is of making good the walls which where rendered with sand cement, 1960s,,which pulled of in certain areas whilst removing the tiles. whilst talking with the (won't use the word tiler as I don't want to offend proper people!! Person" that attempted" pretended to tile I stated to him he had dot & dabbed the tiles on, he denied this. Well! When I removed the tiles I should have took a picture, It was completely all dotted with thick (pats) yes pats like cow dung on every tile. When it eventually stops raining I will lie them out flat take a pic and post it. But apart from that the job is progressing nicely now, will take a few pics of during and finish job and post them later on.
Cheers
Archie69
TF
Maybe a quick spin in a bucket of water would lighten that hammer??
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Hello stranger!
To be fair to the said tiler bit more than dot and dab if he has had to do them brick bond with a slight bow or lump in the wall he will use a lot of adhesive beyond a 10 mm trowels depth guess he didn't know when to say get it sorted before I start or charge to sort it doesn't mater where in the room you start so long as you mark out correctly and are confident your lines are spot on tad over kill adding latex plus to the adhesive makes it set way to fast on a warm day
I'm not sure I understand your post. Ate you making excuses for him? There's no excuse for spot fixing.
Whoever fixes their first tile without getting your levels and straight edges out??
Archie69
TF
I understand that you can start on any wall, but as mentioned you have to be dead certain on your levels, ie you can't have a massive gap above the bath which would look like an absolute pigs ear and beyond applying mastic or trying to cut a 14mm wide porcelain tile. This geezer did not have a scooby dooo. End of. Just pity his next customer who probably won't really know what he's about. No excuses for this guy.
Lol not making no excuses for him I spend a lot of time every year looking at jobs people have screwed up some that have cost 18 k to put right most down to the tilers starting something that should have been put right before attempting to tile plus employing a tiler on day work is never a good idea unless it's a complex job 99% of good tilers will give you a price but I guess like most trades now it really is pot luck unless they come recommended from someone reliable
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