Tiling

Running water out of wet room area

Anonymous user 28/02/2024 - 3.00 PM

I had a wet room made from an existing downstairs bathroom, concrete floor. My husband did a lot of the work and he put down a tilux pre former for concrete floor, we insulated all the walls and tanked the floor and walls as recommended. Then we handed it over to the tiler, who said he had made wet rooms using cement etc so we thought he was ok, he and his daughter tiled the whole of the bathroom but I'm not sure who did the wet area in mosaics. I had to get them back 3 times as they didn't put in the drain cover and tile to it, they tiled on early over it, then some grout disappeared under the tiles, then the grout was a different colour where they had fixed the drain area. I left it 2 weeks to settle and had a shower. The water run along the back wall/floor, around the W.C. and puddled in the middle of the floor. I ordered a glass panel and had it fixed. Now the water hits the panel and runs down the panel towards the open area of the wet room and again puddles in the middle of the floor and if left runs behind the door. I contacted the tiler and he suggested I get a metal door strip and fix it on the tiles to stop the water. I also have underfloor heating and I haven't used it as I'm scared. It's obvious the water isn't draining quickly enough, is the tiler at fault here? My husband checked the level of the former very carefully before it was tiled and it was spot on. He's a joiner so he's used to checking levels. The gradient wasn't that much though. The mosaics can't be lifted it will rip the membrane, has anyone any ideas? I'm so so gutted that after putting all that work in and it taking nearly a year to complete, added to the overall cost of £2000 plus, the water runs away across the floor. Additional THANK YOU for the replies, yes I'm inclined to agree it's the tilers fault, yes my husband fitted the drain and if I remember it takes 18 litres a minute away, so if the gradient was maintained it would run into the drain. I'm going to ask the tiler to come back( he's an aquaintance of my husbands) and ask him to take the shower era tiles back up and redo it, it will rip the former no doubt , the trouble is the edge of the former has an overlap of plastic membrane , factory fitted and this goes up the walls on 2 sides and is taped then tanked, so the wall tiles would have to come off too. Oh what a mess!