Tripping on uneven floor tiles just installed - HELP!!!
berardmr
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Comments (2)i have seen chipboard type plywood used many times for a garage/workshop. it is cheap (sbout $5 per 4x8 sheet) and just slap a few coats of white paint on it and you have covered walls that are sturdy, you can nail and screw to, and wont break the bank. its about 1/4 of the price of sheetrocking it (if you hire out the tape/mud), and about 1/3 of the price of paneling....See MoreNew tile floor trip bar need help quick
Comments (8)It happens all the time. A homeowner will choose a tile or type of flooring and the installer will install it without thinking. Tile and flooring is not something that you can just throw down and make it work and come out even especially on a remodel. Here's why.. You start out with all of the subfloor heights even. You decide to install 1/2" thick wood flooring in all of the rooms but the kitchen. When new the builder compensated for the extra height when they tiled the kitchen. Say for example 1/4" thick tile was used. The builder would add 1/4" thick plywood to raise the floor to where the tile would be even with the wood flooring.. Fast forward.. You come along and decide to redo the kitchen floor with 1/2" tile that calls for a 1/4" underlayment. You now have 3/4" total height to deal with. The old 1/4" tile is removed. Minus 1/4 from 3/4 you have 1/2 left. !/2" will be the difference in height between the old and new. So now you have three choices. Go back and find a tile or flooring type with a thickness that will come out even when fully installed. Rip out all of the old wood flooring throughout the house and start over. Add a transition piece and learn to live with it. Myself I would have did a lot of measuring and after if you wanted to go with the tile you choose. Then I would have added something like a Shur-Trim transition piece under the tile and onto the wood flooring....See MoreHelp on Shower Door Install- uneven tile
Comments (15)With a tub/shower combo, I am a huge proponent of curved shower rod and curtain over glass doors. It makes for a much more comfortable shower. With that layout, it will be easier to enter and exit as well. Shower curtains can be left open to show the tile. You can use them as a decorative element of the bathroom as well and they are easy to just throw in the wash and clean from time to time making them much lower maintenance than any glass door. (Squeegeeing after every shower with glass to make it easy to clean later I still feel is a hassle). Double shower hooks make for easy hanging and removal of both a liner and curtain. For a higher end look, you can put your rod at ceiling height and make a custom curtain that extends to the floor. This is not what I personally prefer as it makes it more difficult to put up and take down and since you do not have a light in the shower would make your shower too dark....See MoreNewly installed tile is uneven
Comments (13)As Sophie points out, this is an install + tile problem. It is a complete redo. Is this DIY or did you pay someone to do this? Long thin tiles will POOR off-set (really should be 1/3 off-set....yours are closer to 1/4 or less which is not good enough) and grout lines that are far too small. If you add that to bowed tiles (I would say all of them are bowed...which is why you are seeing sooooo much lippage) and a poor install without the proper mortar bed and without the use of a leveling system = perfect storm = the situation you are looking at in the photos. As Sophie has already asked, who sourced the tiles? Who decided on the grout lines? S/he who is responsible for these two issues will have to pay for the replacement materials. Who decided on the mortar/thinset option? Who made decisions about subfloor prep to achieve "flat"? Was it paid for? Who decided on the stagger-pattern? Who made the decision to work with (or without) a leveling system? The answers to these questions will tell you who's responsible for the cost of LABOR (which is roughly HALF the price of the job). If this is NOT DIY, then you have some serious conversations ahead of you with your General Contractor and his/her choice of tile setter. If there is NO GC - meaning you are the GC - you will need to speak directly with the tile setter and decide the level of "fault" with this install. Please answer a few of our questions and well help out a bit more....See Moremarcolo
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