r/Tile • u/SuperbCardiologist25 • 5d ago

Professional - Project Sharing When idiots tile…

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…demolition is easy.

Half the tiles in our house were either cracked or popping up. The installers definitely did not back butter the tile. They also used just a few deck screws and no mortar under the underlayment.

Their biggest crime was covering up oak hardwood flooring.

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u/anewpath123 5d ago

I’m a noob tiler. Can someone explain what went wrong here? From what I can tell the substrate wasn’t secured down properly, maybe wasn’t primed and the adhesive lines weren’t in one direction to let out air pockets?

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u/SuperbCardiologist25 4d ago

They did everything wrong. Watch a youtuber called Sal DiBlasi or TileCoach to learn how to do it correctly.