Comments on: Grout Does Not Stabilize Tile http://floorelf.com/grout-does-not-stabilize-tile Help with all your tile needs (and extreme jackassery!) Sat, 19 May 2012 20:47:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: bill http://floorelf.com/grout-does-not-stabilize-tile/comment-page-1#comment-11613 bill Thu, 17 May 2012 01:14:19 +0000 http://floorelf.com/?p=191#comment-11613 Thanks for your input. Really smart sounding advice. I've started taking up some of them. Scraping the combs of thinset is ridiculously difficult. I've gotten myself into a real mess here. I don't even know how I'd start over if I were so inclined. I'll keep at it. Once again, thank you. Thanks for your input. Really smart sounding advice. I’ve started taking up some of them. Scraping the combs of thinset is ridiculously difficult. I’ve gotten myself into a real mess here. I don’t even know how I’d start over if I were so inclined. I’ll keep at it.
Once again, thank you.

]]> By: Roger http://floorelf.com/grout-does-not-stabilize-tile/comment-page-1#comment-11566 Roger Tue, 15 May 2012 00:57:57 +0000 http://floorelf.com/?p=191#comment-11566 Hey Bill, It sounds like you may not have gotten full coverage under your mosaics. You'll get better coverage if you comb out the thinset then flip your trowel over to the flat side and knock down the ridges. Then you'll be laying them into a flat bed of thinset. Use your grout float to pound them down into the thinset a bit to make full contact. Your thinset very well could have been too dry - that will definitely cause that. You should take them up - if 'some' of them are coming up now - how many are gonna come up later? Hey Bill,

It sounds like you may not have gotten full coverage under your mosaics. You’ll get better coverage if you comb out the thinset then flip your trowel over to the flat side and knock down the ridges. Then you’ll be laying them into a flat bed of thinset. Use your grout float to pound them down into the thinset a bit to make full contact. Your thinset very well could have been too dry – that will definitely cause that.

You should take them up – if ‘some’ of them are coming up now – how many are gonna come up later?

]]> By: bill http://floorelf.com/grout-does-not-stabilize-tile/comment-page-1#comment-11548 bill Sun, 13 May 2012 23:11:26 +0000 http://floorelf.com/?p=191#comment-11548 Hi Roger, I've been lurking on your site for a while now. LOVE it! Here's my question: I laid mosaics in the bathroom and they are not sticking to the flex bond. I have not grouted yet. There is 1/4" hardibacker thinsetted to a super solid plywood sub, then flex bond thinset on the hardibacker, then the tile. I've been working in the bathroom, stepping on the tiles and some of them are coming loose. I'm hoping I can grout, and they will stick, but I'm afraid you going to tell me to tear up all of the tiles. As to why they didn't stick, was my thinset too dry? Thanks for your input. Hi Roger,
I’ve been lurking on your site for a while now. LOVE it! Here’s my question:
I laid mosaics in the bathroom and they are not sticking to the flex bond. I have not grouted yet. There is 1/4″ hardibacker thinsetted to a super solid plywood sub, then flex bond thinset on the hardibacker, then the tile. I’ve been working in the bathroom, stepping on the tiles and some of them are coming loose. I’m hoping I can grout, and they will stick, but I’m afraid you going to tell me to tear up all of the tiles. As to why they didn’t stick, was my thinset too dry? Thanks for your input.

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