Travertine tile repair- Bad installation

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I thought i would put this in the guest area so everybody could see this.
I was called out to do a repair on a damaged travertine tile on a kitchen floor. This floor was laid a year ago,and two hole appeared in one of the tiles. You can see black marks in the photo, they called the tiler back to replace it.
He said he could repair the hole, so he filled it with Silicon :mad2: this is totally the wrong thing to repair natural stone with. You can see in the photo once the tile was removed the white on the floor where the Silicon was squirted into the hole...Once i carefully remove the tile with the Fein Multimaster without damaging any other tiles i found the tiles had been Dot & Dabbed, you can see in the photo the grey adhesive dotted on the back of the tiles...also he used grey adhesive. This is not the correct way to lay tiles, and white flexible tile adhesive should have been used with natural stone..
As you can see in the photo i used white adhesive and did a solid bed of adhesive onto the floor, and also adhesive was applied onto the back of the tiles to fill and holes in the back of the tile. Once laid it was grouted and i had a very happy customer. :thumbsup:
 

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good thread m8!:thumbsup:
looks like you will probably have the entire floor to replace within the next few years:ban:
 
Nice one, I have to agree with the others, and from personal experience, you will be back to replace others I'm certain, still, they're easy to remove mate:lol:
 
Nice job.:thumbsup:. should have offered to refurb the tiles to same finish as new one.... is that an acrylic sealer on the older tiles.. looks worn doesn't it..
 
Nice job.:thumbsup:. should have offered to refurb the tiles to same finish as new one.... is that an acrylic sealer on the older tiles.. looks worn doesn't it..
Tile were sealed with this they had some left over from the installation.
 

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