Tiling on wooden floors

[The Natural Philosopher]

Yoiu did use a tile cement didn't you - a flexible cement based one, not that rubbishy stuff that has to dry out and never does?

[The Natural Philosopher]

You will end up with losse tiles.

Get a decent cement and redo it.;

A cementr that SETS not DRIES.

[The Natural Philosopher]

That sounds very similar to waht I suess - ardurit flexible somethig r other. It goes rubbery in 24 hours and is just walkable on, and is fully set in about 3 days.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Yes. While you can stiull cleam the crap off.

Yes.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Must be teh rapid set one then. I used the rapid set non flexible for over concrete - magic stuff, but beware, you have two hours to clean it off the tiles or hours of fun trying once its set....

[The Natural Philosopher]

It did not in my case.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Nope.

[The Natural Philosopher]

I did my grouting with BAL mediuem. It has cracked a little where the tiles meet a stuid walll, but that was expected as there is still shrinkage going on there.

Its not a 100% waterproof, but that has not resulted in any issues wherever I have used it - even wet rooms.

[Tim Smith]

Hi all

Thanks for the advice and responses.

In the end I took up all the tiles so that I can make sure it is properly done.

I reckon there were about 30 tiles I took up and I think I broke 2. I reckon this just gives an indication of how soft the adhesive was even after 5 days.

It was reasonably easy (although tiring) to scrape the semi-drying adhesive off hte floor using a wallpaper scraper.

End result, SWMBO has banned me from doing it (as I have many many other jobs to do) and has demanded that we get a tiler in. After the work putting them down and taking up, Im acutally reasonably happy to agree.

On a good note though, I went back to B&Q where I had bought the 6 tubs of Unibond and explained that I had used 4 and still had 2 left. They agreed without so much as an argument that if I took all 6 back (2 full and the empty tubs) then they would refund the whole lot ! I guess this is probably what Im entitled to since it didnt work, but it was refreshing not to have to argue about it....all credit to B&Q in this case.

Tim