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[QUOTE="Tile Shop, post: 850729"] If its a cement screeded floor, hardie don't recommend laying backer boards (don't quite understand why so if someone would be kind enough to enlighten us?). However if its a wooden floor, most guys/gals will glue it and screw it as a more suited substrate to tile on than timber. The adhesive wouldn't necessarily by used used to fix it, the screws will do that, but it will help you level the floor. So back to the concrete, you won't know whats needed til you get your straight edge and spirit level on it. But just a skim of SLC would put most floors right. On my kitchen floor, I checked the level and it was fine so didn't use SLC. But when it came to fixing the tiles, it would seem I missed a dip (that'll teach me for not double and triple checking). I used the RLS levelling kit, and presuming the floor was flat, only skimmed the tiles and laid the usual adhesive bed on the floor. The levelling clips when tightened, lifted a tile out of the adhesive completely at one end. Didn't realise until a week or two later when I discovered it sounded hollow. So recently broke the tile out, cleaned out the hole and re-laid it with a thicker bed. The levelling kit is very helpful for preventing lippage, but they can cause you problems if the floor is not suitably level to start with. They won't level the floor for you. You also want to be periodically lifting your tiles as you're laying them to ensure you're getting the right coverage (like I did... n't). Good prep will make the job go so much easier. [/QUOTE]
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