Low quality floor slab

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NigelB

Hi, looking for help with options here. Stripped out old kitchen and lamintate floor to reveal several cracks - rubbish slab really - some small vertical movement as well as horizontal so clearly can't tile direct even with an isolation membrane. New kitchen coming in 6 weeks, can't be delayed, wife insists on tiled floor. No time to rip out and replace slab - and it would take too long to dry anyway. Looking for a less than ideal way that i might get away with. oh and limited headroom too!

Thought of levelling out and fix cracks as best I can, layer of DPM then 22mm chipboard glued as a floating floor, then tile on top using flexi adhesive? maybe with a decoupling membrane on top of chipboard? Any chance that might work? Many thanks
 
Your second thoughts are a less viable option than the decoupling membrane to be fair. How much movement are we talking? Any pics?
 
Love to upload a pic but can't seem to, upload maanger says i only have 9.8kb allowance (no photos uploaded at all, new user) so even my smallest pic is way over, and won't let me post a link to photobucket either!
 
Love to upload a pic but can't seem to, upload maanger says i only have 9.8kb allowance (no photos uploaded at all, new user) so even my smallest pic is way over, and won't let me post a link to photobucket either!

Send them through to my business email address and I will upload them
 
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Wow... You could always run kicking and screaming...
 

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