Recent content by kevster310

Hi, Recently had my shower room and kitchen renovated. I live in a Victorian-era mansion house converted into flats. I've noticed that if I do a particular big load of laundry or drain a full sink of water, everything will back out of my shower. This happens with all the sinks in the...

Thanks for all the advice... The boards were green and I was told it was cement board... but he could've told me anything as I would have had no way to check... dishonest builders are hard to catch... I will try to contact him again. Thanks for all the help

Thanks for the reply... that's what I feared... He used cement board in all the other areas (including a second shower room) so I assumed that the brick wall was special in some way. I think he directly screwed the ply onto the brick wall. The cement boards he used were green, that was...

Thanks for the reply Richard, Yes, the crack is over an exterior brick wall... I seem to recalled that he put varnished plywood over the brick before tiling... I have no idea whether or not this is acceptable behaviour. It's unlikely that the brick wall has cracked as I saw it before it was...

Hi there, Had my bathroom refitted about 6 months ago... Whole room was retiled with 30cmx60cm tiles. It was a complete remodel so all the old tiles and plaster boards were removed. About a month ago, I noticed that 2 of the tiles over the shower area have developed a very fine but...