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bigclive
Hi, my names clive, and i am tiling a friends kitchen. (first time floor tiling)
Details of the job are:
The flooring is green chipboad t&g.
Tiles I believe are porcelain (but mabe ceramic) I cant remember off the top of my head lol.
I am going to be using flexi adhesive and grout, probably bal as ive read this is the best stuff to use (as this is what ive read in all the forums ive searched)
*There is virtually no movement in the chipboard flooring.
*The kitchen is very narrow (only 130cm wide) by 519cm long. The kitchen is wider than 130cm but the rest is covered by side units on each side of the kitchen so under the units will NOT be tiled or covered by wbp ply. I am going to overboard with 12mm wbp plywood.
apart from using pva to seal the back and sides of the ply is there anything else that i should be aware of before starting to lay the tiles? do i really need to use some kind of backbaord (as i have read) as well or should it be ok on just the ply?
I am trying to keep my friends costs down. but also want to make sure the tiles stick like sh** to a shovel lol.
any advice on this will be greatly appreciated.
regards
clive
Details of the job are:
The flooring is green chipboad t&g.
Tiles I believe are porcelain (but mabe ceramic) I cant remember off the top of my head lol.
I am going to be using flexi adhesive and grout, probably bal as ive read this is the best stuff to use (as this is what ive read in all the forums ive searched)
*There is virtually no movement in the chipboard flooring.
*The kitchen is very narrow (only 130cm wide) by 519cm long. The kitchen is wider than 130cm but the rest is covered by side units on each side of the kitchen so under the units will NOT be tiled or covered by wbp ply. I am going to overboard with 12mm wbp plywood.
apart from using pva to seal the back and sides of the ply is there anything else that i should be aware of before starting to lay the tiles? do i really need to use some kind of backbaord (as i have read) as well or should it be ok on just the ply?
I am trying to keep my friends costs down. but also want to make sure the tiles stick like sh** to a shovel lol.
any advice on this will be greatly appreciated.
regards
clive