How to save my tiling - uneven tiles! Picture included

pensionbloke · Post by **pensionbloke** » Sat Sep 19, 2020 10:08 pm

Hello everyone

Currently getting my kitchen tiled and brought a tiler in to do the job. All looking really good so far and super pleased; however, there is one tile that is on a "bump" and is lipped against the adjacent tile. Please see picture below.
The tile is cemented down but no grouting yet. Replacing the tile would be difficult and probably counter intuitive - underneath that is the underfloor heating (loose wiring held down by, ironically, floor leveller). I daren't smash the tile incase it breaks the underfloor heating. Awkwardly, this tile is right in the center of my kitchen, so there is no avoiding it!

How can this "lipped" tile be amended so the lip is not so obvious, in the circumstances??

pensionbloke · Post by **pensionbloke** » Sat Sep 19, 2020 10:13 pm

and the view from above

Rorschach · Post by **Rorschach** » Sun Sep 20, 2020 6:16 am

You can't, it needs to be lifted and set properly. Actually it needs to be replaced as you won't get it up without breaking it.

Razor · Post by **Razor** » Sun Sep 20, 2020 7:13 am

Isn't it the tilers problem?

It looks like its actually low in your picture compared to the ones either side.

Unless you can grind a high spot off and repolish to make it less noticeable I think you know it has to come out

pensionbloke · Post by **pensionbloke** » Sun Sep 20, 2020 11:39 am

Thank you for the replies. I accept that pulling it up is probably the only realistic way of getting the floor level, however, in doing so, I'm sh*t scared of breaking the underfloor heating underneath. I might have to live with this (literally!).

Chippo1 · Post by **Chippo1** » Sun Sep 20, 2020 12:15 pm

Did you or the, tiler not use tile levellers when laying ?

I thought they were the dogs wotsits when I laid my 1000 x 500 tiles in kitchen

ahfix · Post by **ahfix** » Sun Sep 20, 2020 4:59 pm

You could score the tiles with an angle grinder and use a small cold chisel ro chip away until you can get under the side of the tile.

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pensionbloke · Post by **pensionbloke** » Sun Sep 20, 2020 11:23 pm

Chippo1 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 20, 2020 12:15 pm Did you or the, tiler not use tile levellers when laying ?

I thought they were the dogs wotsits when I laid my 1000 x 500 tiles in kitchen

No idea to be honest, I have just left the guy to it

pensionbloke · Post by **pensionbloke** » Sun Sep 20, 2020 11:27 pm

could the underside of the tile be sand belted down to reduce the depth of the tile?

dewaltdisney · Post by **dewaltdisney** » Mon Sep 21, 2020 9:09 am

If you have a spare tile break it out as has been suggested. Carefully work from the middle to the edges chopping it out. Chisel as much dried adhesive off to ensure a new tile can sit evenly and relay it. All other solutions are a bodge, you will always see it and hate it.

DWD