RE: [OT - Very] Tiles

["Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>]

I've had a similar experience with tile grout ... regrouting tiles where
they were grouted with grout isn't a problem, that is hauled out
beautifully
easily with a normal Plasplugs grout removal tool (A little hooked rake
that
you haul between the tiles) ... regrouting tiles where they have used this
"Fix and grout" adhesive has resulted in my Dremel having a
nervous
breakdown and my *MELTING* several of the grout removal tools for it!

(I have by the way given up on this after only removing the grout from
about
five tiles!)

If you have no compassion for those to come then use the "quick fix
all in
one" products but if there's any possibility of you doing maintainance
or
you want the next people to be able to do a job right then I'd suggest you
use the "proper" way of doing things!

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Pollock [mailto:pollocmc@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 07 September 2001 16:20
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] [OT - Very] Tiles
>
>
> Hi, (this is a long winded rant - not about HA so skip if you're not
> in friday afternoon mode at work)
>
> Just before any of you pop off to homebase/b&q over the weekend
can I
> give some advice. Be very carefuly if you use any of the
"flexible"
> ceramic floor tile adhesives. I've just spent the past 2 weeks (and am
> still at it), burnt out the motor of one SDS Hammer Drill (which I
> sheepishly got replaced - "But I only ran it for 10 minutes
honest")
> and now have large callouses(sp?) on my hands a navvy would be proud
> of. I've also had to buy an angle grinder to regrind the chisels every
> four tiles.
>
> In my tilers wisdom he suggested that if I used this adhesive (I think
> it was called flexbond) then I wouldn't have to sheet the floor. Pah.
> I reckon it took at most six months before the first tile cracked.
>
> I reckon if NASA had found out about this stuff, they wouldn't have
> any problems keeping the tiles on the shuttle.
>
> Anyway nothing to do with HA other than I've had no time to do
> anything. I just needed to share my frustration with someone. There I
> feel all calm now.
>
> Mark P.
>
>
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