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[FONT="]Ok let’s have a little clearing of the decks as regards Durabase CI mat and Schluter Ditra mat.
Durabase CI and Ditra are membranes manufactured to lie between tiles and floor to absorb lateral movement. In simple terms if either of these membranes is installed and the floor beneath moves by expanding or contracting when drying the crack does not travel through to the tiles and wreck the floor.
This allows tiling onto floors susceptible to lateral cracks such as green screeds, wood floors, under floor heating and difficult substrates like bitumen and pitch.
We all know both these products are made by the same company in Germany yes - Good
Durabase CI was exactly the same product as Ditra with the dovetails but a different colour. Schluter went through the process of "it’s our idea" so Durabase was withdrawn and remade to do exactly the same job but is made slightly different.
The differences for the installer :
Ditra mat has to have all its dovetails filled in order for the adhesive to key and be installed properly
Durabase CI has a mesh on its surface to grip the adhesive, the holes are there to accept the adhesive as it wraps around the mesh. This is obviously less of a fiddle as all the dovetails do not have to be filled as with Ditra and so adhesive doesn’t need to be so sloppy.
And Finally of course Durabase CI is yellow not orange
If anyone needs more info then please get in touch and of course there are favourable prices from Wetdecs for forum members.
Cheers
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Durabase CI and Ditra are membranes manufactured to lie between tiles and floor to absorb lateral movement. In simple terms if either of these membranes is installed and the floor beneath moves by expanding or contracting when drying the crack does not travel through to the tiles and wreck the floor.
This allows tiling onto floors susceptible to lateral cracks such as green screeds, wood floors, under floor heating and difficult substrates like bitumen and pitch.
We all know both these products are made by the same company in Germany yes - Good
Durabase CI was exactly the same product as Ditra with the dovetails but a different colour. Schluter went through the process of "it’s our idea" so Durabase was withdrawn and remade to do exactly the same job but is made slightly different.
The differences for the installer :
Ditra mat has to have all its dovetails filled in order for the adhesive to key and be installed properly
Durabase CI has a mesh on its surface to grip the adhesive, the holes are there to accept the adhesive as it wraps around the mesh. This is obviously less of a fiddle as all the dovetails do not have to be filled as with Ditra and so adhesive doesn’t need to be so sloppy.
And Finally of course Durabase CI is yellow not orange
If anyone needs more info then please get in touch and of course there are favourable prices from Wetdecs for forum members.
Cheers
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