Got a job redo tiling, need to rmove broken tiling from a clients rental revenue property. Any quick insights on removing? I was thinking to just cut out the shluter ditra and replace instead of keeping the membrane and removing the thinset which could be really time consuming. Looking for the easiest and fastest solution. The client had gotten the ditra heat installed without the heating element to take advantage of the IIC rating because they got it at same price as regular ditra. Thx.
tile with shluter ditra heat (no heating elements)
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Got a job redo tiling, need to rmove broken tiling from a clients rental revenue property. Any quick insights on removing? I was thinking to just cut out the shluter ditra and replace instead of keeping the membrane and removing the thinset which could be really time consuming. Looking for the easiest and fastest solution. The client had gotten the ditra heat installed without the heating element to take advantage of the IIC rating because they got it at same price as regular ditra. Thx.
Are you replacibng the entire floor? If so tear the whole thing out, If not cut along grout lines, break tile and replace just those pieces. You wont know what gets saved until you get the tile off.
Hopefull it was a crappy install and the tile will come right up.
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Probably replacing the whole thing, wont spend time trying to match size and color/shades of tiles. But should I cut out the shluter membrane if its a per tile replacement, the contours on the ditra heat would take for ever to remove old thinset or do I remove tile try to scrape thinset till the highest contour height and then put a skim coat of thinset then back butter the tile.
Probably replace it all but then you ask per tile? How many tiles are we talking about and the question is why are they cracking?
If you have a cracked tile and you know it's happens to be ditra then it's from spot bonding or insufficient thinset. Ditta is a crack isolation membrane. If a couple of tiles are cracked. Finish them off with a hammer. Don't dig into the grout joints and risk damage to the heat. Use multi tool rasp to flatten but don't get carried away.
Back butter and replace.
Back butter and replace.
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This is a good answer. aim@building This is the path I would recommend.
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About 10. But If I can find replace tile the same shade color.
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Neither of those. Heavy objects were dropped on tiles.
I never asked why they were cracking. We know why they are broken. There is other sections of tiling in the rental unit where the tiles are fine.
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Yes no heat. Client got same price for the ditra vs ditra heat and went for the extra IIC rating on the dh vs d.
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Thats what I was hoping. I've used all schluter products but I know the ditra heat is a ***** for removal vs ditra.
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Amazing, keep up the positivity.
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Ya a real pro....
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in while, or the light won't come in
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