wooden

I've been asked to tile a kitchen floor. The floor is a suspended wooden floor that has been covered in vinyl tiles - which are still well stuck down even though they were laid 40 years ago. The main problem is that when the washing machine is going through its spin cycle you can feel a...

I have been trawling all over the forum for a definitive recommendation on fixing 6mm hardie backer board to a failrly solid 22mm thick t&g wooden floor but I cant find the answer anywhere - even on the thread where the hardie rep introduced himself and then disappeared ! I just went to my...

We are finishing a renovation job just outside of Knutsford Cheshire,my team of polish guys are taking three weeks off from the end of this week so i have work available anytime in the next 2 weeks for a good tiler to lay just under 30sqm of Galaxy Granite tiles. I also have approx 60 sqm of...

Hi everybody! Hope you can help a DIYer. Our kitchen has a suspended wooden floor with 40 year old + floor boards most in good condition and those that are'nt I've replaced. We are having new kitchen units in the next couple of weeks. The problem, in the past I've used Dukka board as a...

I have had a few problems with tiling on wooden floors, any body tell me a good adhesive to use instead of using ready made adhesive in tubs. done all the fixing down and still tiles move????????:huh2:

In my training I was always told to use min 15 mm ply on top of floorboards or to remove the floor boards and put it straight onto the joists . However I have never used this I have always used no more ply at 6mm and benfoflex with no problems except it can take an extra day to get it down...

hello all ive got to tile on a wooden panel that is to be screwed back into frame so they have access to back of toilet and wash basin in attick (shower room) do i just prime panel and use normal addy will that be ok???

Hi everyone , i have got 600 x 600 porcelain tiles to lay on a new t&g chipboard floor. there is some slight movement in the floor but not a great deal. the whole floor is screwed down well. one tile shop said if there is any movement at all the tiles will break. has anyone got any experience...

Hi all Got a bathroom floor to do soon ,the plywood is already down but there is a high spot in the floor near the edge ,when puting my spirit level across the floor from the high spot i would have to raise the floor to almost 20 mm to keep it level with the edge. Question is will it be ok to...

Hey Guys, Am a complete novice but think with the right advice I can get away with a DIY on my bathroom floor. It's a small bathroom approx 2m square and am after some basic advice. 1. should I lift my toilet and basin and place tiles directly onto the tile or cut around the toilet and the...

Hello, I've recently joined the forum and have read through as many of the posts concerning tiling onto wood floors as I can find. I have been asked to tile a 4,5m2 wooden bathroom floor with 450x450 porcelain tiles and electric UFH. I'm fitting a new bathroom suite and will be lifting the...

has anyone used a material called Pecilastic for tiling on top of wooden floors, If so how did you get on ?

Hi everyone, I need a bit of advice please with a new bathroon tiling job. The majority of the existing boards have been replaced by the builder with 18mm green chipboard nailed once or twice in places. Where the boards are ok they have been left but still abit loose. I've just bought 6mm...

Re: Any new tilers stuck at all, with anything? Hi Dan how do level up a bathroom floor thats thats 20mm out of level its tounge and groved and been overlaid with 15 ply ?.

Have just had kitchen extension built and am now left with half concrete half floor boards. I want to lay ceramic tiles and was wondering what preparation the floor would require. Marine ply? Hardboard?

Just wondered what the score is these days with you professionals and DIYers who have the need to tile in a TONGUE AND GROOVE floorboards situation. Is it ... Fastflex (or similar) directly on the T&G Ply then Single Part Flex Some other method