Tilemaster anit fracture matting / tilebacker - TilersForums.com

[Fitwidge]

Does anybody use the tilemaster matting?

im a bathroom fitter and when speaking to other tilers, they normally use hardiebacker.

im abit confused as to whats best to go for a tile backer board or the matting.

we normally use the 10mm delta boards glued and screwed but the anti cracking matt sounds alot better?

 

[Bond]

On sound wooden floors, I’m assuming , you could use ditra 25 or similar. Anticrack mat on screed/ concrete floors. Generally speaking. Easier than say hardibacker.

 

[Steve6690]

It depends what you're trying to achieve. Hardibacker and crack matting are not the same thing.

 

[Fitwidge]

It depends what you're trying to achieve. Hardibacker and crack matting are not the same thing.

Basically, whats best for tiling on floors really (specifically wooden)

i just overly confused as to what the matting is for.

 

[Steve6690]

Generally 6mm Hardibacker on wooden floors. "Crack matting" is used to make sure any lateral movement (not up and down movement) doesn't transfer to the tile and cause it to crack eg on a concrete floor if cracks develop in it.

 

[Fitwidge]

Generally 6mm Hardibacker on wooden floors. "Crack matting" is used to make sure any lateral movement (not up and down movement) doesn't transfer to the tile and cause it to crack eg on a concrete floor if cracks develop in it.

Thats what i thought, but if you have movement in the floor, wouldn’t that then transfer to the hardy backer?

just curious (i use delta tilemaster boards 10mm on floors normally)

 

[Steve6690]

What sort of movement though? Vertical ie bounce/deflection, or lateral?

 

[Fitwidge]

What sort of movement though? Vertical ie bounce/deflection

yes bounce in the floor, i mean, always obviously take the bounce out the floor (if possible)

I’ve just been watching sal diblasi and landberg and they all seem to use the shutler matting and it got me curious if the tilemaster matting is similar

 

[Steve6690]

Yes, you'd fix the floor first to take out any bounce. If you've watched the Sal Diblasi videos then think of using Hardibacker where he uses ply on the floor. AFAIK Hardibacker is just used to provide a flat, solid surface to tile onto.
Ditra and other mats will take out any lateral movement in the floor e.g on a tiled concrete floor if the screed cracks the tiles might crack too, so the mat will allow the screed to move laterally without it causing the tiles to crack too.
I tiled my whole downstairs and the screed had cracks in it so I used Ditra in case there was any further movement.