chipboard floor

  1. N

    Hardibacker advice onto chipboard floor

    Hi guys. Been out of the tiling game for some years and just about to tile kitchen and hall in 60*60 porcelain. Tiling over a chipboard floor and laying 6mm hardibacker first. My question is, is it essential to need the hardibacker onto adhesive then screw down or can you just screw the boards...
  2. R

    Replacing 50mm white jablite and chipboard floor

    Hi everyone, would appreciate some advice please. We're tiling our kitchen floor, and the floor currently is made of a concrete base, which has a 50mm jablite board on top of it, and then 18mm chipboard flooring. We know this isn't suitable for tiling (floating floor). We're gonna rip it all...
  3. K

    Tiling on a floating chipboard floor

    Hi all, I'm doing a small bathroom renovation for someone and the walls and floor are failing to bits with damp i can sort walls but the floor is chipboard which looks like its laid on 50m jablite its a flat in a old building floor proberly been there least 30 years, it looks like its all laid...
  4. O

    Tiling onto non-flat chipboard floor - and with or without Ditra matting?

    We just had a 1.5 sq. m area of floor tiled professionally in our ensuite. The base floor is 18 mm chipboard and is screwed down hard to the joists, but dips down by a max. of around 4 to 5 mm in places. When laying the tiles, the tiler followed the floor precisely, and hence the finished...
    • Oddbod
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    • canada chipboard chipboard floor ditra ditra matting floor matting tiling
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
  5. S

    Help with uneven chipboard floor to level and prep for tiles

    Hello, I hope you can help me ... My kitchen was tiled over concrete floor but tiles were cracking because floor had different levels and was uneven. To fix this the contractors have used 15 or 18 mm wp chipboard over the old tiles with a lot of adhesive but the problem still persists as you can...
    • Serenutty
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    • canada chipboard chipboard floor floor help level prep tile tiles uneven
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
  6. D

    Alcove Shower Refit - water damage to chipboard floor, stud walls & plasterboard

    First post :) I'm having to refit a first floor shower alcove in a 20 year old house that has suffered water damage from the shower to the floorboards & stud wall. Construction is 22mm V313 MR chipboard floor on treated 9x2 timber joists at 600 centres with the 1000x800 alcove formed of...
    • DHD
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    • chipboard chipboard floor damage floor former plasterboard shower shower tray stud walls water wetroom
    • Replies: 19
    • Forum: Tanking and Wetrooms
  7. J

    Chipboard floor problem

    Hi all, new to the forum, I'm a customer of a bodged tiling job done 2 years ago by a general builder. He fitted my kitchen inc 25 sqm of floor tiling, onto 18mm green chipboard (on a suspended but well supported sub-floor). At the time I didn't know this was a 'no-no', and I recall him saying...
  8. R

    Chipboard floor

    Good evening. Just a quick one and I’m sure it’s asked and answered many a time so I do apologise. Can you lay ditra or Durabase straight onto chipboard, it has the green coloured wax on it. I was under the impression you can’t. I always use hardie on chipboard but need to keep the height down...
  9. D

    Levelling a chipboard floor .

    Looking for some advice , Upstairs bathroom is chipboard floor . I planned to hardiebacker then tile but the floor is out 20mm one way and 12mm the other way . Floor needs to be level as there’s a traditional rad that has legs and 2 units going in and you will notice it . What’s the best...
    • David Bingham
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    • canada chipboard chipboard floor floor levelling
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
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    Replacing chipboard floor for tiling advise

    Im about to rip up a chipboard floor which is falling apart, I was going to lay ply and overboard with NMP or Hardie, Ive seen that there is 22mm backing board can this be used directly on to joists or does am i better laying ply and then a 6mm backing board? Any adivise appreciated also one of...
    • tony Dimartino
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    • chipboard chipboard floor floor tiling
    • Replies: 21
    • Forum: Australia Tiling Forum
  11. E

    Preparing a chipboard floor

    Sorry for what is probably a repetitive question but my search hasn’t found what I want….. I’m replacing my bathroom which will include tiling the walls and floor with 300x500mm ceramic tiles. The existing floor is chipboard, only around 3 m2 in an L shape. So plan on screwing it to the...
    • earlm
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    • canada chipboard chipboard floor floor preparing
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
  12. P

    Tiling for existing chipboard floor ...

    Hi all, I found this forum yesterday and after some thorough reading was really impressed by the know-how. I wondered if I could get the pro's advice on an en-suite that needs tiling - sorry in advance for the length of the post - I hope it allows for a better understanding! I have prep'd by...
  13. A

    Tiling Bathroom Chipboard Floor Floor

    Hi, I was told that the bathroom chipboard floor has to be laid with plywood of at least 9 mm thick, before tiles are laid. In my mother's house some ago the bathroom chipwood floor was overlaid with 5mm plywood. Is it mandatory standard to use 9mm ply on bathroom chipwood floor? Thanks
    • Alexb
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    • aus bathroom chipboard chipboard floor floor tiling
    • Replies: 37
    • Forum: Bathroom Tiling Advice
  14. K

    Advice On Fixing Aquapanel To Chipboard Floor

    Apologies if this has been covered but I could not find much info on aquapanel searching, plentiful on haribacker... I am after some advice on fixing aquapanel to a chipboard substrate, what adhesive people recommend and what thickness of adhesive to use. The substrate is in good condition and...
    • Kyle1
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    • advice aquapanel aus chipboard chipboard floor fixing floor usa
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: Australia Tiling Forum
  15. D

    Advice for adhesives when using hardibacker on a chipboard floor

    Hi, just looking for some advice on tiling onto hardibacker which will be on top of a chipboard floor. Which non-flexible bal adhesive should I use to lay the hardibacker board on and what flexible adhesive to lay the tiles on? The Floor area is and in a bathroom and is not very big
    • Darren
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    • adhesive adhesives advice aus chipboard chipboard floor floor hardibacker tile adhesive usa
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Australia Tiling Forum
  16. J

    Replacing Chipboard Floor and Prep for UFH

    Hi I have a small bathroom 2.4x2.5m divide by a step up across the middle which is where the bath and basin go. Plumber needs to remove the chipboard floor on the step level to plumb in new bath and vanity. Considering what to put back down once he's done and that will also be suitable for...
    • jazzhands
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    • aus chipboard chipboard floor floor prep ufh usa
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Australia Tiling Forum
  17. aflemi

    Floating Chipboard Floor over Hetta wet ufh pipes (like polypipe)

    This is about a Victorian conversion property I am buying. I agreed purchase on condition that I fitted out 2 bathrooms. Builder has constructed the following floor structure: "The floor make up is as follows. 22mm chipboard glued joints and onto the Ecojoist. 6mm Accusti rubber mat laid over...
    • aflemi
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    • aus chipboard chipboard floor floating floor pipes the tile association tta ufh usa wet wet ufh
    • Replies: 17
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
  18. Ken Bruty

    another chipboard floor.

    Hi guys, been asked to tile hall/wc with chipboard floor but have advised not to tile on chipboard. So I am removing it along with plastic dpm and polystyrene insulation. This leaves concrete.... so starting from that, has anyone done this and did you latex bare concrete after priming, then...
  19. Rosco100

    70m2 floating chipboard floor

    Hi would you or won't you tile onto a 70m2 floating chipboard floor ??? I'm a no but customer really wants it tiled ?
  20. S

    Chipboard floor

    New build house 5yrs old. Went to tile 2 ensuite floors this afternoon, the client had ripped out the carpets. There was a bit of damage to 1 part of the floor, as I walked in to check on it I felt a bounce on the floor. I put the boy into the room to jump around till I stood & watched how much...
    • Stef
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    • aus chipboard chipboard floor floor usa
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice

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