Will they stay stuck?

[davo66]

Any opinions whether there appears to be enough adhesive behind my tiles to keep them stuck to the wall of my shower cubicle, and prevent water ingress behind the tiles?

As can be seen I’ve removed one of the offending tiles to show how the adhesive doesn’t go all the way to the tile edges, especially at the corners. My question is whether the rest of the offending tiles need to be removed and replaced, before grouting?

This is sent as a follow up to a previous post on this forum about whether this job was at risk of leaking:
"looks-like-could-leaky-one"

cheers,

Davo

 

[Brian the Tile]

cant see the pic proper but has the adhesive just been put on the back of the tile ,if so imo take them off before you do have problems

 

[davo66]

Sorry about the rubbish photo – the maximum size allowed appears to be a paltry 9.8kb.

To me, it looks as though the adhesive has been dabbed onto the tile in two large dollops , then pressed onto the wall where it has spread out covering most of the surface, but not quite to the edges.

 

[charlie1]

Why did you remove one of the tiles?

 

[davo66]

Charlie,

From just looking at the joints I couldn’t see the extent of the problem, only that the adhesive hadn’t reached the edges of some tiles. A sample tile therefore needed to be removed to assess how much adhesive had actually been used.

 

[steve187]

a more detailed picture would help

 

[davo66]

a more detailed picture would help

Does anyone have any tips how to compress a photo to within the 9.8kb limit without turning it into a postage stamp?

 

[Brian the Tile]

take the tiles off if they have been dotted and dabbed or you will have trouble,that is not the right way to fix tiles

 

[davo66]

take the tiles off if they have been dotted and dabbed or you will have trouble,that is not the right way to fix tiles

Would you say it looks like it's been dot and dabbed from the attached photo? - the tiles are green and the adhesive is the grey splodge, which kind of looks like a number 8 on its side. The slightly darker area of grey in the corners are free from adhesive

 

[Brian the Tile]

yes i would say two blobs and away we go from what i can see of it