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Ive been to see a large living room kitchen area ( knocked through) but the floor is quite springy. Its 15mm floorboards but there are quite a few sections of scrappy board ( 1 mtr lenghts)
Im worried 6mm overboarding will not take out the bounce.
another tiler had suggested using Ditra...
Hi all......got a timber floor to tile with 600 x 400 slate tiles. I know that its recommended to use a decoupling mat with natural stone....which I always do on a solid floor. However, this floor is 22mm chipboard and customer wants UFH fitted. I usually glue and screw 10mm insulation boards...
Hello everybody.
My first post on here; any advice and pointers greatly appreciated.
Ground floor extension c45m2.
Wet UFH system under 50mm of calcium screed (thermio plus).
Screed went down 4 weeks ago (sanded down after 2 weeks).
Final tile is a 600 x 300 porcelain.
I have had...
Hi Peeps
Looking at a floor this week with wet underfloor heating.
So the customer has said the heatings run to temp. Slab put down in January. Likley be end of may for tiling. Not tiled over wet underfloor heating before so want to make sure the preps right.
Any tips/advice much appreciated...
What would you all suggest for preparing our upstairs bathroom floor for tiling?
Currently it is standard T&G floorboards with gaps here and there where it was repaired by the previous owner.
My first thought was to put a thin ply over the existing and screw it down. Do I need to do anything...
Hi guys!
Right, so I'm starting this job next week (I'm the builder as you know!) so I need to run by you the method I was planning on.
So its a wetroom. 1m x 4m approx. tiled floor, tiled shower area. Pretty much all components (sink, toilet, etc) will all be 'floating' so a clean floor...
Folks
This may not be the right Forum to post this on but I'm sure some of you will be knowledgeable in this field?!
I have been asked to prep a kitchen prior to installation of some fancy units etc.
The floor tiles tiles are 600 x 900 x 15 polished limestone so my first question is will 4"...
Good morning gents , been asked to price a 300m mezzanine floor in a showroom .
38mm chipboard. They have indicated that it will be well supported etc, how would you go about prepping?
Ditra or overboard with hardie or Wedi. Expansion joints obviously.
The building has not been built yet, they...
so I have been to see a porch that the customer would like travertine brick bond with a travertine border.
Currently they have a type of wood down from when the house was built there is what looks like patches of the floor has subsided so I pulled up some wood and found very crumbly substance...
Hello all.. I have a new one for me and was unsure which way to go.. what would you do?
a customer is having a new extension with about 40m floor that will need tiling onto new concrete screed.. none of it has been done yet.. The tiles will run through the house, which has floor boards..
would...
Hey guys
Was wondering if anyone could give me some advice re a floor tiling job I have coming up?
The area is approx. 20-25m2 and will be using 600x300 porcelains.
The floor is 2/3rds 20mm floorboards and 1/3 concrete as it is a kitchen and dining room that has had a dividing wall taken down...
Afternoon all,
Just after some clarification to how most appropriately prepare the attached floor.
The kitchen has a concrete floor as does the fire place hearth and the dining area is floorboards.
The dividing wall is coming out this week to make a kitchen/diner and the entire floor is to be...
Quick question for a general consensus please:
I'm tiling a floor soon that is 18mm tongue and groove floorboards, overlaid with 18mm floorboards!!! God only knows why this is the case. The 2 layers of boards are not perpendicular, but the joins are staggered so they are not directly...
Hi guys. Due to tile my mum's bathroom next week but the guy doing the plumbing I asked to lay the ply and nog the floor as I'm only in and out and he need to do his pipework etc. I've asked him to prime underneath etc.however I was there today after he left and having checked I'm not 100%...
I'm pricing a job atm where the customer would like the floor tiling from the kitchen straight into the bathroom.
The house was derelict for a long time and the floor is a mess.
My big concern is the serveral slabs etc, the floor height can be built up in SLC and bulked out with sharp sand in...
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Hi, I am looking to tile my kitchen floor with 600x600 porcelain tiles and am not sure if I should be putting down ply or if I can use hardbacker? I've been on to the builder (fairly new house) to ask about subfloor & they confirmed on top of the structural concrete floor is 60mm insulation then...
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I have a kitchen floor to do.. 26m
Half is floor boards (solid & sound)
half is concrete..
I was going to glue and screw 6mm hardie boards onto the boards, overlapping the concrete by 50-100mm, then make up the concrete depth with flexi SLC.. does this sound the best way?
Thanks in advance
Hi,
I have the following scenario & would be most grateful for any advise on this;
Kitchen floor in a new build house (11 yrs old) screed covered in an asphalt / bitumen (black shiny finish). Fairly level, no delamination or breaking up etc... (approx 30m2 hence standard not rapid set)...
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Have got a 30m2 kitchen floor to do in a couple of weeks,and the problem is at the moment the floor is solid oak flooring ,I have removed a small section to see whats underneath and it 12mm ply direct to the joist's ,the customer wants the cheapest way for the prep,I want to overboard with ply...
A customer took up old tiles ready for me to come in and discovered a piece of 5 mm ply under the floor it's only about a foot wide and runs about 3 metres so I took up the ply and underneath was a set of radiator pipes and the ply sat on two pieces of 2x2 so as the rest of the floor is concrete...
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