How best to Tile a room? - TilersForums.com

[widler]

What you should do is glue and screw insulation boards down , lay electric matting , pour self leveler on top, then tile when slc has set .
Id find the center on the bifolds and work your setting out from there, either grout joint in center of glass or full tile spanning the middle door.
Measure your cut to the long wall, cut them all and work from that wall.
Id get standard set adhesive as well

 

[mp3wizard]

thanks for your input widler, i'm not planning to use insulation boards, i'm planning to lay the electric matting straight onto the wood as you see it above after painting it with a heat resistant primer, without any self levelling, as the surface is flat, I was going to use 3mm spacers inbetween the tiles, but I've seen levelling spacers which look like a better option for me. I'd like the smallest grout line possible but I see most people recommend 3mm as the smallest line, would you agree?

So basically all the cuts should be on the lefthand wall, so you can see full tiles infront of you as you walk in the room, makes sense.

 

[Flintstone]

Regardless of what good info you read on here, your own ability will probably fall short on a job like this, get some one in and save up if need be, you have to walk on this floor every morning when your having your weetabix

 

[Kyle Knowles]

Just imagine years on being unhappy looking at the floor lips everywhere joints all wonky and un even thinking what It could have been id for sure just live with what u have till u can get a professional

 

[Ttt1601]

Regardless of what good info you read on here, your own ability will probably fall short on a job like this, get some one in and save up if need be, you have to walk on this floor every morning when your having your weetabix

He is right

 

[widler]

Call me a bit daft in the head if you want , but forums are for help , to help people who need it.
By telling someone the blloody obvious
" get a tiler "
is not helping matters .
If this chap can't afford a tiler , and is a competent diyer he may just be able to pull it off , seeing some of the work put on here he may just get one of the shhit ones anyway
BUT i will say if he does not listen to the advice about how to do the job , then thats his problem, and it would be imo a big problem if he does not lay insulation boards over that timber , or use slc over the wiring

 

[Time's Ran Out]

@widler - you tried and he didn't listen so surely that's going to say it all!
Your daft for trying to help to this extent , there is no way that the amount of advice he requires can be provided in a few posts but he can search threads to obtain it.
Paint on primer with 2 separate wood substrates?
For me I have to draw a line with how much involvement I'am prepared to give as in this instance its not DIY but a major investment that could go badly.
Just my humble opinion.

 

[mp3wizard]

I realise that it's not in Tilers interest to say that I can make a decent job of it as ofcourse it's less tiling work for the trade, but I've successfully done some DIY which turned out well, I've changed an alternator on a sports car with absolutely no mechanical knowledge, simply following instructions and pictures from a forum saving me a thousand. So aslong as I don't rush in gun ho and think methodically I believe I can make a decent job of it.

Seems like I shouldn't skimp on the insulation boards especially seeming i'm attempting it myself, i'll order some, thanks Widler.

 

[Simons70]

Call me a bit daft in the head if you want , but forums are for help , to help people who need it.
By telling someone the blloody obvious
" get a tiler "
is not helping matters .
If this chap can't afford a tiler , and is a competent diyer he may just be able to pull it off , seeing some of the work put on here he may just get one of the shhit ones anyway
BUT i will say if he does not listen to the advice about how to do the job , then thats his problem, and it would be imo a big problem if he does not lay insulation boards over that timber , or use slc over the wiring

True,this forum are here for help,but due to difficulty of this job must give him the right direction.
IMO go on heating floor with 800 x 800 is a high risk to damage wires,fit 800 x 800 is hard for an experienced tiler,do it right is another story,so I can't encourage him when I know all this issues.

 

[widler]

@timeless john
You are always right ofcoarse john
I do think its only the one substrate though , looking at the drawing the tiling is stopping at the floorboards