Same as my kitchen. Quarry tiles on earth with a suggestion of very weak 1" concrete. Did the right thing like you.
Yep. Right ball ache as I'd plastered and painted. I'd layed the new part of the kitchen slab early days just after I'd built to DPC. The old part of the kitchen had ceramic tiles on top of the old quarries. I was simply going to remove the ceramics and just tile on top. But on removing them I noticed the quarrys were all over the place, most importantly some were too high. So I thought I'd just remove them. With my naivity in building I was surprised with the lack of slab under the 100 year old floor! Spent a bit of time trying to think of an easy bodge before buying the bullet, digging out 1' to lay mot, blinding, DPM, insulation, 5" slab.Exactly that! The weak concrete mix really threw me!
Did you put a new slab down then?
Yep. Right ball ache as I'd plastered and painted. I'd layed the new part of the kitchen slab early days just after I'd built to DPC. The old part of the kitchen had ceramic tiles on top of the old quarries. I was simply going to remove the ceramics and just tile on top. But on removing them I noticed the quarrys were all over the place, most importantly some were too high. So I thought I'd just remove them. With my naivity in building I was surprised with the lack of slab under the 100 year old floor! Spent a bit of time trying to think of an easy bodge before buying the bullet, digging out 1' to lay mot, blinding, DPM, insulation, 5" slab.
Then had the issue of realising I was meant to be tiling the lot but now having a 3 month cure time on the slab. F Ball F77 saved the day. Witchcraft.
Ah dam, oh well.
Can I recommend saving / reselling the terracotta tiles, they are getting rare!
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