Browse Forums Flooring & Floor Covering 1 Apr 10, 2012 10:33 pm Hi All, I recently completed building and took possession of our dream home. After living in it for a couple of days, the first thing we noticed was that the external tiles get stained and marked very easily. For example when dragging a chair lightly over it, or when wearing rubber/leahter soled shoes, the mark gets ingrained in the tile. I have spent inordinate amounts of time trying to clean these tiles and have lost patience. These tiles were aparently part of a matching internal tile and thereofre by default, was highly recomended by the tiling company. When I brought this to the attention of the company representative, he stated that I could use special tile clearners to keep this clean. I countered that this was not a long term solution and all it served was to shift the scope of the problem and not resolve it. These tiles are in effect unusable and should not have been installed in the first place. I have stated that the tiles need to be changed (not specified by whom, though I am expecting them to change it at their cost). I can understand that in order for the tiles to be laid by the builder I had to have agreed to the sugestion - that means I take part of the blame - understood and no issues there. What I am expecting , is that the tiler at the very minimum, supply me with new tiles and pay for part of the cost to re-lay them. This would mean removing the existing tiles and laying the new ones. What are your thoughts on this? Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. Hi All, I engaged a tradie to install concrete retaining wall 600-800mm high over 32 meters in Victoria. Sleepers are 200*75*2000 mm installed over 17 steel posts. I… 0 6882 Building Standards; Getting It Right! Don't think they are designed for double brick. WA has a particular way of building and unfortunately that's the way a large amount of sills are finished. 3 6986 Levelling compound Ardit is the best but buy a bag of sand and make sand dam to protect your wood floor 2 15228 |