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Hello everyone,
This is just a general interest post. Redoing the ensuite and when I started to take off the tiles, I found they barely had any adhesive at all, to the point where I could pull them off by hand if I'd wanted to. How they have remained fixed at all is beyond me.
There was no PVA and no tanking of any kind in the wet area and as a result, quite a bit of timber has been damaged. The skim has failed entirely in places, as has the grout. To cap it all, the partition (where the mirror is fixed) is paramount board, which is rotten through, as are its wood beams and will all have to be taken down. Floor will have to come up now too and I'm dreading to think what I'll find under there!
The plumbers smashed holes in the plasterboard to accommodate the shower tray and just left it. The tiles were stuck over the top. There was nothing behind the those tiles at all, held together by silicon. I made the circular hole to inspect the soil run, but the rest is as I found it.
This is a Ben Bailey new build from 2005. Over time I'd come to realise they were poor quality builds, but I never really understood just how bad they are until now.
This is just a general interest post. Redoing the ensuite and when I started to take off the tiles, I found they barely had any adhesive at all, to the point where I could pull them off by hand if I'd wanted to. How they have remained fixed at all is beyond me.
There was no PVA and no tanking of any kind in the wet area and as a result, quite a bit of timber has been damaged. The skim has failed entirely in places, as has the grout. To cap it all, the partition (where the mirror is fixed) is paramount board, which is rotten through, as are its wood beams and will all have to be taken down. Floor will have to come up now too and I'm dreading to think what I'll find under there!
The plumbers smashed holes in the plasterboard to accommodate the shower tray and just left it. The tiles were stuck over the top. There was nothing behind the those tiles at all, held together by silicon. I made the circular hole to inspect the soil run, but the rest is as I found it.
This is a Ben Bailey new build from 2005. Over time I'd come to realise they were poor quality builds, but I never really understood just how bad they are until now.