Homelux wall/floor matting - TilersForums.com

[Mossop]

Would anyone happen to know precisely what the difference is between the Homelux wall and the Homelux floor matting?

I have more wall matting than required and no floor matting.

I'm to have a marine plywood floor put down in a bathroom (not a wet room), though I know there can be differences in the quality of marine ply.

Would there be negative in putting some Homelux Wall matting put over the ply floor before tiling?

Thanks.

 

[Flintstone]

Your best bet it to ditch the ply and use something more suitable, assuming your using the ply over floorboards or chipboard.

 

[Mossop]

No, the ply isn't going over floorboards, it's going directly onto the floor joists.

 

[Flintstone]

Personally I wouldn’t use that mat on the floor. Your best option is to overboard the floor with a cement board, or an insulation board, then tile.

 

[Blunt Tool]

Forget about the Homelux stuff and you can do away with the marine ply also Hardie backer boards do a structural 22mm board you can fix directly onto joists then just prime and tile with flexible tile adhesive! Our resident @3_fall hopefully can confirm this.

 

[Mossop]

Personally I wouldn’t use that mat on the floor. Your best option is to overboard the floor with a cement board, or an insulation board, then tile.

Thanks. Presumably though the Homelux floor mat would be okay to use - if I had some?

 

[Mossop]

Forget about the Homelux stuff and you can do away with the marine ply also Hardie backer boards do a structural 22mm board you can fix directly onto joists then just prime and tile with flexible tile adhesive! Our resident @3_fall hopefully can confirm this.

Could the 18mm marine ply be primed and then tiled?

 

[Old Mod]

Cooooeeeee!

Yes Ian. I can confirm that

Hardie Floor structural board, really good product.
Tongue and groove cement board, 19 & 22mm thicknesses, finished job.
If there’s no danger of moisture ingress, then totally recommend it.

If your going to use a matting on a bathroom floor, then use Isomats waterproof decoupling membrane.
Two products in one and very versatile.
This can also be used on shower walls for tanking purposes.

 

[Blunt Tool]

As far as I am aware ( I have never used this) the Homelux matting for walls is for waterproofing and the Homelux matting for floor is a waterproof decoupling matting specifically for floors so you are asking if you should put the wall stuff onto the floor the answer is no.

 

[Mossop]

If your going to use a matting on a bathroom floor, then use Isomats waterproof decoupling membrane.

That would be this product:
WATERPROOFING & UNCOUPLING MEMBRANE - Complementary Products, Complementary Waterproofing Products, Complementary Waterproofing Products – Reinforcements, Tile Adhesives & Grouts, Waterproofing Materials - ISOMAT - https://www.isomat.eu/product/waterproofing-uncoupling-membrane-en/

Thanks for that, I haven't heard of this brand previously.