Help with Timber Floor Preparation - Tile Advice

[Bartlett]

Hi, I am a old forum member from several years ago who has just signed up again. Like many others I did some tile training in Harlow and thought I could go out and become a tiler and I did quite a few jobs and they went okay. I enjoy tiling and I'm a bit of a perfectionist (good quality in a tiler?!) but I was obviously slow and very inexperienced but after a while I wasn't getting enough work and wasn't earning enough, and within a couple of years I realised how good other tilers were compared to me and I went back to my old job and I'm still doing it. Which is fine.
But now I need to do some work on my own house, a pretty big bathroom, 4m x 4m, and I wonder if I can ask some advice? Some of my questions have been answered already by searching the forum.
It's a very solid period property with sound timber floorboards and the bathroom is on the first floor. I previously did a few jobs where I laid 6mm cement boards over floorboards before tiling and I wonder if this is still a good plan? Or is there a new product you can recommend which would work better or is cheaper or superior? Some kind of matting maybe?
Would appreciate any help, thanks.

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Welcome back - went to school with a Bartlett ( he got the nickname Pears!)
So what size tile are you using, cement boards with adhesive and mechanically fixed should suffice but every job is different.

 

[Bartlett]

Thanks for the reply. Not bought tiles yet but theme is definitely Victorian and I think the wife is interested in something black and white checks so almost certainly not large format. Using cement boards was fine previously, did the in-laws kitchen/diner like that and it still looks good and definitely no movement. I just wondered if there was something new on the scene and everyone would laugh and say 'cement boards? ha ha, no-one uses them anymore!'

 

[CJ]

If boards are in good condition, the usual is 6mm cement boards, glued and screwed, then tile.

 

[Bartlett]

Thanks, that's what I'll do, good prompt advice, cheers.

 

[Blunt Tool]

As above, the uncoupling mat would have been required if you were going with a natural stone.