Hello. I am a pool remodeler in central Florida. I have spent a good amount of years doing very high end tile work and learning the best possible application. You installed is not doing proper methods to glass tile. He is using thinset on glass which very wrong. He should be using Flexset like Laticrete 253 or Litokol products because when it gets hot it allows slight movement so tile doesnt fall off wall in a few years. Your largest mistake here is zero waterproofer you have on tile line!!! You have no protection between your mortar bed and water. These tiles will have effervescence within 1 year and will never go away. On top of that as water pulls the calcium from behind the tile it will eventually fall off. Which means the customer paid for a bad job an within 5 years will have to replace it all. So next time try a flexset and always waterproof your timeline after floating or atleast bondcoat the timeline but it should be waterproofer!!!!
Also glass should never be put on with a notch trowel. It should always be flat troweled because you tile needs to be 95 percent coverage from your flexset to insure proper application
Thank you for all of that information we had big problems with these guys the whole pool has to be redone , the bottom of it is bumpy and looks like the moon surface , and a big black spot in the middle of it our sun step from one of the guys was smoking and dropped his Ash right into the diamond Brite and then just trawled over it and they also plastered the light into the wall just a lot of problems but I appreciate your input and critique thanks for watching
Rename the title to how NOT to tile a pool. He's using thinset not rated for submerged applications. His troweling is sloppy and is not getting full coverage behind the tile
@@TomLeeman I will do that if you rename the title so people who click on this video don't think this is how it should be done and create more issues for themselves down the road.
awesome video. I have cracks and concrete missing behind where the thinset would go. Would i just fill this in with thinset or is there another product to prep with first?
@@TomLeeman Well, because as Jacob previously stated there are major flaws in how the tiles were installed. I am just a homeowner in the middle of a pool build and had to do my own research on how glass tiles are being installed. If I saw my tile guy doing that, he'd be off the project in no time.
EDIT: my tile guy just fucked up the install of the porcelain paver coping, used 3/16" notch trowel on a 12"x48" paver. Pavers came off by hand the next day...He's gone!!
@@dimplezdimples8451 that’s why when you’re a good pool mason you learn how to install coping with mortar instead of how a lot of folks believe is the right way to float the beam and just install it with thin set, takes alot more time and is less stable
