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Hi Guys,

First off, sorry for my bad grammar. I'm from Sweden and english isn't my native languege. :)

I'm about to install limestone in size 300xfalling (falling=300-700mm) in a hallway. The limestone is 100% flat on the back.
The under floor is 12 month old concrete.

In sweden there is an cement based https://www.tilersforums.com/forums/tile-adhesive/ called "flytfix" from various manufactures such as Ardex, Weber and Kiilto. It's commonly recomended when using large format tiles and eliminates the need for back buttering, since it's semi-floating and gives full coverage.

There isn't much info about this type of https://www.tilersforums.com/forums/tile-adhesive/ international wise, but from what I heard the concrete must be very flat, but the thing is that no one states how flat it should be.

In my case I have cushions next to walls that starts 2cm from the wall. When placing one end of a aluminium ruler against the wall and the other end on middle of the floor I get a 2-2,5mm gap that starts 2 cm from the wall and peaks at 5-10cm from the wall.

Will this cause any lippage or will the floating/self leveling adhedise take care of this? I will use a 12mm notch.

Anyone have experience with this type of https://www.tilersforums.com/forums/tile-adhesive/?

Here are some links to the https://www.tilersforums.com/forums/tile-adhesive/ I'm talking about:
:: Kiilto Lattialaasti DF - http://www.kiilto.com/en/products/kiilto-lattialaasti-df/
 
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My advice here, get the floor as flat as possible using levelling compound if needed to acheive that. The https://www.tilersforums.com/forums/tile-adhesive/ you are talking about is pourable https://www.tilersforums.com/forums/tile-adhesive/ and you can get this from BAL, called Bal pourable one and it can bed upto 25mm if I remember right. Use there large format trowel with it too, 20x14mm U notch.
 

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