Plastering on tiles

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The customer has a kitchen where all walls have been tiled. they want me to skim it, and they dont want to take the tiles off first. they had already started smoothing over the tiles with some kind of filler but now cant be arsed and want to to skim everything. now i have never in 6 years been asked to skim onto tiles by anyone. im a little unsure about it and wanted to check with you guys the best way to go about it. i said to them the tiles would need to be painted first using gypsum thistle bond it (the green grit stuff) prior to skimming. is this the correct and best way to go about it? the tiles are on sound and solid. and all their filler that they did 2 weeks ago has held on nice too which surprised me. any suggestions would be much appreciated. and just to re iterate they have no interest in taking the tiles off first they want them left on and skimmed over the top.
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I would just walk away from it.
What's the point going over tiles? Most kitchens not tiled floor to ceiling only a few rows, don't take long to get it off. I'm sure some done it in the past and will be along shortly to say that thistle bond it will do so then you can just skim over it.
 
I would try to convince them to take them off,having said that blue grit state that you can apply it over tiles and then skim it so it can be done,they probably think taking the tiles off will be a knightmare but it's usually not that hard.
Im not sure if bgs bonding can go over tiles also?
 
the whole kitchen is tiled from floor to ceiling and all the cabinets are fitted on top of the tiles so even if i did persaude them to take the tiles off which i know they wont, they would need to take all the cabinets off first in order to get behind and get those tiles off also. do you think i should just walk away from it then?
 
Id walk away,who wants to plaster round cabinets? When the cabinets do finally get changed the contractors will all be moaning and bitching saying who skimmed this over the tiles!you know the homeowner will drop you straight in it taking no responsibility themselves.its not worth your reputation for a couple of days work max.
 
kgreigh said:
Id walk away,who wants to plaster round cabinets? When the cabinets do finally get changed the contractors will all be moaning and bitching saying who skimmed this over the tiles!you know the homeowner will drop you straight in it taking no responsibility themselves.its not worth your reputation for a couple of days work max.
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I think we were posting at the same time.
 
christian87 said:
the whole kitchen is tiled from floor to ceiling and all the cabinets are fitted on top of the tiles so even if i did persaude them to take the tiles off which i know they wont, they would need to take all the cabinets off first in order to get behind and get those tiles off also. do you think i should just walk away from it then?
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Don't try and save a hassle for them, if they want it done, do it the proper way, if they don't want to get it done like that walk away, better losing a days work than losing your rep on a crappy kitchen for a tight customer who's clearly just wants to save some £
 
Price the job, tell them what YOUR gonna do if they don't want it like that move on, fair play put it in the quote and explain but I doubt they will be showing the quote to every c**t they are slagging you off to, when it fails :)
 
I would never do any sort of work over tiles.
To me that's just bodge big time.
Having said that
I know tillers even go over old tiles with new ones so if they stick I can't see how skim won't but that's a personal choice.
 
I would not do it either... you can use thistle bondit but that is not for me thanks...



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I have plastered over tiles in a bathroom a long time ago primed the tiles first, took the money ran to the van and flew down the road never heard from them and touch wood still have,nt my advice is to do the same.
 
as long as there is no grease on the tiles just pva and skim, with tiles you have a good flat surface to skim on to.
 
I did a job last year for someone in a bathroom still OK to this day I just give them some blue grit tight coat of bonding and skimmed away I did over prise it just in case thing didn't work out
 
thanks for all your responses guys. i really appreciate it. i honestly didn't want to do such a thing anyway so i put in a silly price and stated fully its not something i would advice and cant guaranty it. haven't heard anything back so take it i haven't got it. no loss there!
 
christian87 said:
thanks for all your responses guys. i really appreciate it. i honestly didn't want to do such a thing anyway so i put in a silly price and stated fully its not something i would advice and cant guaranty it. haven't heard anything back so take it i haven't got it. no loss there!
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Some jobs are worth not doing :-)

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