My Project: Kitchen Floor Tiling 300 x 300mm

[dantheram]

Evening all,

i'm about to start my first tiling project and thought i'd share it on here an see what advice, tips or suggestions might pop up.

i'm tiling (300mm x 300mm ceramic tiles) a 8sqm kitchen floor with a few cuts to make around units. I'm laying 6mm insulation boards and then 5sqm of heating mat before tiling.

my questions are; what trowel shall i use when tiling (using a 10mm round notched trowel for the boards) and should i undercut the door fames or just cut tiles to fit round them? Also, is it difficult to get things level when going from heat mat to just insulation board - assume it just a case of making up the depth with adhesive?

Many thanks,

Dan

 

[Sean SML Tiling]

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Is the floor wood or concrete

 

[dantheram]

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Is the floor wood or concrete

Concrete

 

[Ajax123]

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6mm insulation boards are hardly worth over a concrete floor IMO. Can you fit deeper ones in??

 

[dantheram]

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6mm insulation boards are hardly worth over a concrete floor IMO. Can you fit deeper ones in??

Nope, they must be better than nothing (I hope)

 

[Lee@emctiles]

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Dan, If your in Derby and require sound technical advice then pop along to our showroom just off Stores Road (address in signature)

Lee

 

[dantheram]

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Dan, If your in Derby and require sound technical advice then pop along to our showroom just off Stores Road (address in signature)

Lee

Cheers Lee

i think im getting there now but may well pop in.

im going to trowel out a bed of adhesive with a 6mm notched trowel and lay the insulation boards. then lay the UFH mat and cover in SLC (mapei ultrabond renovation screed) at 3/4mm. then tile with a 10mm trowel.


would have loved to get some more depth in on the boards but it's going to raise the floor level too much.

 

[dantheram]

Quick question -

my UFH mats came with a primer called fast heat, this stuff says it basically a barrier to prevent heat loss. However, i have laid insulation board. So, i need to prime these boards to accept SLC, can i use the fast heat product or should i buy something else (i also have a tub of benfer primer going spare)

Any advice much appreciated,

Dan

 

[dantheram]

 

[dantheram]

Obviously the SLC photo is in the wrong place but the above is my first job finished - apart from a few minor things

Thanks to everyone who has helped me out!

 

[dantheram]

missed a couple

 

[beanz]

Looks good, well done Dan! Did you use the primer? I used a matt once that came with a similar sounding primer.. Smelt remarkably like PVA!?! Lol

 

[dantheram]

Looks good, well done Dan! Did you use the primer? I used a matt once that came with a similar sounding primer.. Smelt remarkably like PVA!?! Lol

used benfer prime instead as i had their addy - the other stuff was definitely not PVA though, probably as crap though :lol: