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    Preparation Advice/sensecheck on floor tile preparation - backerboard and ditra?

    Hi, Can't seem to find a solid answer as I realise so much depends on multiple factors. I'm planning to tile my kitchen floor with 8mm porcelain floor tiles (660x440mm). My kitchen floor is mostly wooden floorboards (house built in 1925), with a strip of concrete along the party wall from...
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    How smooth should floor be before laying?

    How smooth does the floor surface need to be before laying porcelain tiles? I have removed tiles and theres bits of adhesive stuck to the floor causing small bumps, theres a few pits too. Can I lay tiles straight over this?
  3. lukeoflondon

    How do I prime floorboards before aquapanel?

    Hi everyone, sorry if this is an incredibly stupid thing to ask: I have some old 18mm floorboards, on top of which I plan to lay aquapanel. I was going to use some kind of cement-based flexible adhesive between the floorboards and the panel (haven't decided exactly what yet), and I'm sure I need...
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    Floor prep - hardi vs jacko

    Im soon to start overboarding my floor. (22mm chipboard tng) in prep for tiling. The floor is solid with no bounce. Having just used jackoboard on the walls and found it so quick and easy to work with im wondering can it be used asan alternative to hardibacker when it comes to overboarding the...
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    sub floor prep

    Hi All First post long storey short had arranged for someone to re model my bathroom on the 1st floor with a wet room but disaster hit on day 3 after coming back from work i found a large amount of problems floor replaced with loft board and screwed down with plaster board screws waste went...
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    Floor prep question

    Hi everyone, I'm pricing a job to tile a bathroom floor with UFH. It's a suspended floor that has been over-boarded with ply and has a thick, hard shiny vinyl on top. Everything is well fix down and I'd rather not remove it all if possible as it goes under furniture that they don't want to...
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    Shower room floor prep

    Currently removed the wall and floor tiles and shower tray from the shower room im renovating. The floor boards look okay but have quite a few holes... Plus one more out of view. Someone on another thread mentioned overboarding with a tile backer but im wondering if I should replace the lot...
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    Concrete floor prep for porcelain tiles

    Hi all again. I'm trying to prep my concrete floor for porcelain tiles. It's just a small 1.5m x 2.5m utility room so I am giving it a go myself. When I have lifted the lino that was there I've discovered 2 layers of old adhesive tiles below. The bottom tiles have a yellow ish green adhesive...
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    Floor prep beginner advice

    Hi guys, I'm new to tiling and looking for some advice. I'm practical and usually pretty good with DIY so looking to learn the correct way to do this. I have just bought my first house (townhouse built in 2013) and want to tile the floors of the en suite, bathroom and downstairs wc. They are...
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    Floor prep advice

    Hi there, I have a shop floor to price up. It's about 50m2, currently vinyl and they want it tiling. It's a suspended floor with a little bounce here and there so I'm wondering which prep option to go for. I could possibly ply over for some added rigidity then ditra over that? The main problem...
  11. H573

    Polished Concrete Floor Prep Advice Needed

    Hi Everyone, hope all’s well. I’ve been asked to tile a polished concrete floor, approximately 80 m2 , floor is in decent condition was laid last year, what’s beat prep wise? I can’t get ditra matt or anything like that here. Thanks
  12. On the job

    On the job

    Check out our customers on the job shot, of him screening a floor using Nicobond ScreedPro.
  13. Nicobond Plastic Ply

    Nicobond Plastic Ply

    Check out one of our customers using Nicobond Plastic Ply during their tiling project - our award winning timber reinforcing sheet.
  14. Bopster

    another Preferred floor prep thread

    I’m working on a quote for a customer at present, first floor bathroom over a carport. The floor is currently freezing cold so I’ll take it back to joists, fill the void with insulation then board the floor, electric ufh then tile Question is which method for boarding, is nmp ok to have...
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    Floor prep for screed inbetween joists

    Just a quick one guys, a job in the pipeline, I've been asked about the prep that will be required, here's the scenario.. 70m total area ish New extension with new screed (50 - 60mm) and ufh. Existing building with joists, the floor boards are coming up and the ufh is being fitted between...
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    Floor prep - backer board

    Hi, I'm converting a bedroom into a bathroom and doing a lot of the unskilled work myself. I'm at the point where I need to prep the timber floor ready for the tiler to come in and I plan to lay 6mm hardie board using screws and adhesive. I would like to know is there a particular type of...
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    Floor Prep ideas please

    So this is not what I was hoping for on uplift. (But probably should have expected. Probably latex based LC coming away with vinyl flooring. In varying degrees and where it doesn't old Addy residue. The original screed is poor as well. So thinking grind off old leveller and worst high spots of...
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    Preparation Kitchen floor Prep Help

    Hi All, I am looking at moving on to the next project in my house which is kitchen area. This includes the utility room and conservatory. Existing floor was tiled about 10 years ago with porcelain tiles 60x30. All of the floor was fitted with thin tile backer boards, underfloor heating and...
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    Floor Tiling On Concrete - Several Questions About Floor Prep and Laying

    Hi We've knocked through our kitchen and dining room and taken up old stone/porcelain tiles in the kitchen and carpet in the dining room. There are several questions I have before I start tiling. Here is a share link to a Google Drive folder with images: Tiling - Google Drive -...
  20. Stuart Retter

    Wood 22 UFH system, floor prep and coverings ?

    We are due to start tiling over the Terra Therma Wood 22 UFH heating system. What concerns me is the reflective plates that sit in the routed timber floor boards, they seem to be loose laid..... do you latex over them first or can you use a decoupling membrane direct on to the substate...
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