Urgent help - tile trim problem

[Protilers]

My comments in my previous post are made irrelivent by your pictures.............GARY'S sugestion is best......ping from wall to wall and cut in.....if you have a few quid spare....instead of putting in raked cuts.......get a strip of " matching (or contrasting!)marble dropped in as a threshold! highlighting the rebate!

best wishes

Lee

 

[Jas007]

Excellent advice by all. First choice Closure next choice contrasting and then rake. No plastic!thank you Jas

 

[Jas007]

One more clarification - could tiler strike a parallel line 30mm (widest part of rake) from door and do a closure joints from there? Or wall to wall line in front of recess as per Gary? My tiler is coming in tomorrow so will need to give him my choice. Surprised he didn't come up with any ideas apart from plastic strip!

 

[DHTiling]

That choice is yours but yes that can be done as well.. 🙂

 

[charlie1]

Hi jas, can you give me a closer look at pic 4 please, the tile at the top of the pic nearest the wall seems to have a shadow which suggests to me lack of adhesive. I would address this before any other work continues! My point being - it may not be the only one.... I hope I'm sooooo wrong especially considering the tile you have.

 

[charlie1]

I've had another look at the pics and 3 things stick out to me immediately. 1, the screeding looks iffy, 2 layers I'm guessing?...no big problem on its own 2, lack of overspread on 2 (i think) ...and, 3 the shadow I previously mentioned!

All these factors combined gives me slight concern ...hope I'm wrong!

 

[Jas007]

 

[Jas007]

Tiler says he usually backfills with the bal repidset adhesive. First photo is left tile and the other right of recess

 

[charlie1]

Has, those pics certainly concern me! Especially the 2nd one! Your tiler back fills, not 100% sure of what he means but going by pic 1 I'm guessing he is going back and filling the voids left when tiling.... 2 issues with this, he can maybe back fill, but you can't front fill or middle fill as you have no access thus no pro tiler would do this! ...hope I'm understanding situation correctly here
You need to be getting as close to 100% coverage on a floor as you can, especially with stone such as marble! .... I'm not seeing this here!

 

[charlie1]

Another thing jas, bal rapidset has a recomended bed thickness of 6mm (max), from what I have seen, this will have been exceeded!

 

[charlie1]

Jas, bal rapid set has a maximum bed thickness of 6mm, this has been well exceeded from what I see in the pics!

 

[Jas007]

Tiler back butters the tiles and puts adhesive down adhesive too. On bal bag it says ccan be upto 12mm for localised areas. But agree would be difficult to fil voids now but will question tiler.

 

[AliGage]

upto 12mm for areas with limited traffic. I don't think the area around and into the reveal of the french doors would fall in this catagory.

Well spotted charlie

 

[charlie1]

If he serrated the floor I would expect to see the serration marks beyond the tiles, there is one or 2 where this is not pressent and that's what initially drew my attention. + the shadow under the tile + the rather poor screeding. Jas, don't think I'm being piccy, I would have concerns about that floor if I where you. Time will tell how good the installation is mate but if I where you, I'd be lifting one of those tiles for further inspection to see!

 

[charlie1]

Correction- I don't see any evidence of serration (proper) method being used in any of the pics, the white marks on the floor is from backfilling.

 

[Andy Allen]

that adhesive looks like pfb to me.........could be wrong though..lol