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p4ulo
Hi ya guys!
I live in a flat, and as such I have to run most structural things by a maintenance company for approval.
I recently decided to fix my leaking balcony, and had a builder and roofer come around. The overall opinion was a combo of an old patio door allowing water in through rotten frame, and a failed asphalt underneath the existing tiles and around the edge.
So...
I had new patio doors fitted with a new lead tray underneath, then the roofer came around to fix the asphalt. I took up the old tiles, which were down very well stuck to the old asphalt.
He knew I wanted to re-tile the balcony afterwards, my original plan was to use 20mm thick Purbeck stone (other half's Dad owns a quarry!)
So.....for some reason the roofer guy has stuck down an all new felt covering over the top, its 2 layers, you know, the stuff that they heat up with a blow-torch to stick together, and the final top layer has got a sand-paper type finish to it. Its got all new lead flashing around all edges mortared into brick course.
I told him I wanted to tile over it, he said that he has previously over-tiled this surface with a sand-cement mix with stone tiles with no problems. However, I'm not keen....
My thoughts are, thin skim over with sand-cement mix to flatten off, stick down a layer of Schluter ditra using tile adhesive with an edging strip buried under it, then top off with tiles stuck down with an exterior grade adhesive?
I'm a bit annoyed, it wasn't really what I was expecting the roofer guy to do. We'd had conversations about a waterproof layer going down which I could tile onto (I was imagining a Schluter type product bonded onto the asphalt) and I could go straight onto it, as it is I've got a felted roof now, with ridges where the joints are, which I probably can't tile onto...
Any advice please chums?!
I live in a flat, and as such I have to run most structural things by a maintenance company for approval.
I recently decided to fix my leaking balcony, and had a builder and roofer come around. The overall opinion was a combo of an old patio door allowing water in through rotten frame, and a failed asphalt underneath the existing tiles and around the edge.
So...
I had new patio doors fitted with a new lead tray underneath, then the roofer came around to fix the asphalt. I took up the old tiles, which were down very well stuck to the old asphalt.
He knew I wanted to re-tile the balcony afterwards, my original plan was to use 20mm thick Purbeck stone (other half's Dad owns a quarry!)
So.....for some reason the roofer guy has stuck down an all new felt covering over the top, its 2 layers, you know, the stuff that they heat up with a blow-torch to stick together, and the final top layer has got a sand-paper type finish to it. Its got all new lead flashing around all edges mortared into brick course.
I told him I wanted to tile over it, he said that he has previously over-tiled this surface with a sand-cement mix with stone tiles with no problems. However, I'm not keen....
My thoughts are, thin skim over with sand-cement mix to flatten off, stick down a layer of Schluter ditra using tile adhesive with an edging strip buried under it, then top off with tiles stuck down with an exterior grade adhesive?
I'm a bit annoyed, it wasn't really what I was expecting the roofer guy to do. We'd had conversations about a waterproof layer going down which I could tile onto (I was imagining a Schluter type product bonded onto the asphalt) and I could go straight onto it, as it is I've got a felted roof now, with ridges where the joints are, which I probably can't tile onto...
Any advice please chums?!