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Thanks in advance...
Want to tile kitchen floor but looking for advice/opinions.
Floor is timber throughout- in the original part of the kitchen (to the left in pics) is floorboards, and in the newer extended part of the kitchen(seen on the right) is chipboard. 3mm ply has been laid over it all some time in the past and previous floor covering was sheet vinyl.
As one continuous floor the thing is not level. The original floor rises up slightly at its end where it meets what was previously the original back kitchen wall. Here a piece of timber(length of floorboard) has been laid at right angles to the rest of the boards and sits on top of the remaining part of the old kitchen back wall. Then the floor continues into the new extension part but this slopes downwards, away from where the floors meet.
If I lay 12mm ply over the lot would I get away with tiling it (12" ceramics) as things are? Was thinking of putting a grout line all the way across where the floors meet and where it starts to slope away? No doubt would see a slight hump all the way across but so long as the tiles were securely fixed i could probably live with that as an alternative to ripping up the whole of the subfloor. It's a job for family but the house is to be rented, so perfection is not a necessity.
Hope the pictures explain better than words.
Want to tile kitchen floor but looking for advice/opinions.
Floor is timber throughout- in the original part of the kitchen (to the left in pics) is floorboards, and in the newer extended part of the kitchen(seen on the right) is chipboard. 3mm ply has been laid over it all some time in the past and previous floor covering was sheet vinyl.
As one continuous floor the thing is not level. The original floor rises up slightly at its end where it meets what was previously the original back kitchen wall. Here a piece of timber(length of floorboard) has been laid at right angles to the rest of the boards and sits on top of the remaining part of the old kitchen back wall. Then the floor continues into the new extension part but this slopes downwards, away from where the floors meet.
If I lay 12mm ply over the lot would I get away with tiling it (12" ceramics) as things are? Was thinking of putting a grout line all the way across where the floors meet and where it starts to slope away? No doubt would see a slight hump all the way across but so long as the tiles were securely fixed i could probably live with that as an alternative to ripping up the whole of the subfloor. It's a job for family but the house is to be rented, so perfection is not a necessity.
Hope the pictures explain better than words.
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