Disposing of tiling materials
Discussion
I am doing a tile job on my bathroom and the mess is horrendous, in hindsight I should had researched this but too late now.
Don't have a skip.
I have been bagging the leftover adhesive, fine, gone in a bag and will be disposed of.
Buckets are growing, I had a couple of buckets that have used to store old water used to clean up through the job, where do you get rid of this water??
Don't have a skip.
I have been bagging the leftover adhesive, fine, gone in a bag and will be disposed of.
Buckets are growing, I had a couple of buckets that have used to store old water used to clean up through the job, where do you get rid of this water??
Bill said:
Remove any big lumps and tip it down the loo. Definitely not a storm drain.
Wait, what? tip gritty sludging tiling waste down the toilet? I've always dug a small hole in garden somewhere, and tipped it into it. Then pick our the debris, rubbish etc once water drained away and binned it in the general waste.
Everything else, take to the local tip
Edited by Andeh1 on Saturday 23 May 07:18
Bill said:
How's it going to knacker the plumbing?
Common problems:Cement and grout can harden in pipes
Even if it looks watery, fine particles settle and set like concrete, especially in bends and older plumbing.
It can block drains over time
One small rinse probably won t instantly destroy the plumbing, but repeated pours are a classic cause of stubborn blockages.
Toilet traps are especially vulnerable
Heavy sediment settles in the U-bend and waste pipe.
It can damage sewer systems
Cementitious waste raises pH and isn t great for wastewater treatment systems.
Edited by RotorRambler on Saturday 23 May 07:50
Pour it into gardening trays (without holes!) and leave in the sun for the water to evaporate. You will have to do this many times using a max of, say, around 1 cm of liquid depth.
You can then chip out the solid waste and dump it at the tip. Or, if you're patient, you could do enough layers to fill the trays to the top.
This is a recommended method for getting rid of paint, so don't see why it wouldn't work here.
You can then chip out the solid waste and dump it at the tip. Or, if you're patient, you could do enough layers to fill the trays to the top.
This is a recommended method for getting rid of paint, so don't see why it wouldn't work here.
The Three D Mucketeer said:
Bill and Dog Biscuit must be the builders that built my last house 
I was thinking how do tilers deal with this on site, and it's definitely tip it on the ground outside the plot.
Maybe you can take this kind of waste water to your local tip? Just leaving it outside to evaporate in this hot weather seems a good option.
I don’t wash buckets with excess adhesive in them… just let it set over night and a hammer round the outside of the bucket knocks it off in solid chunks the next day.
I’ll have a couple of small buckets on rotation for washing hands and rinsing out a sponge/cloth. Let that stand overnight and the adhesive settles out… pour away the water and what’s left will solidify over the next 24hrs… knock out with a hammer.
I’ll have a couple of small buckets on rotation for washing hands and rinsing out a sponge/cloth. Let that stand overnight and the adhesive settles out… pour away the water and what’s left will solidify over the next 24hrs… knock out with a hammer.
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