decoupling

Hi, I have 45m2 of 1.2 x 1.2 Mirage 9mm floor tiles to lay. Never done this size before. I’m planning to lay a decoupling mat prior - are there any recommendations? Some products say not suitable for large format or very small. I’d like to keep the total build up as low as possible as there’s...

Hi, hoping for some advice.... Had a anhydrite screed laid early Feb. Looking at laying 20mm thick limestone at the end of march. The floor has UFH but the heating system can't be commissioned until the floor is laid-so can't get any heat in the floor. The stone company advise Kerakoll BIOTEX...

Hi all, Finally getting to lay the tiles in our renovated kitchen tomorrow. Tiles are 450x450x10 porcelain wood effect. Floor will be levelled with Ardex NA. Thinking A77 for adhesive and wanted to get you guys advice as to whether I should use a decoupling membrane? No issue buying, but want to...

Hi Everyone. I'm after some advice with regard large format Tiles with water fed underfloor heating. I'm about to lay 100m2 of plank style (1500mm x 240mm) on chipboard floorboards with integrated underfloor heating. I was planning on using Durabase C1++ decoupling matting but saw that it may...

Hi, I had a small kitchen extension built a couple of years ago. The new sand and cement screed has been taken right up to the old one over where the old external wall used to be. Obviously after a couple of years this has now well dried out. The new floor has more insulation than the old. The...

I have used Durabase a couple of times and decided it was safer to backbuttered the felt side and got a perfect contact, just like when backbuttering tiles. Just wondering whether anyone else does this, because there are a few videos on youtube but none of them backbutter the matting. Thanks

hats67 - Yesterday at 11:48 PM Add bookmark #1 Hello guys. I came upon and registered with this forum while doing some research on decoupling mats. I'm a general builder and paver of 30 yrs. Very chuffed to be here. My current job is to build an upper and lower raised patio terrace of...

Hello guys. I came upon and registered with this forum while doing some research on decoupling mats. I'm a general builder and paver of 30 yrs. Very chuffed to be here. My current job is to build an upper and lower raised patio terrace of approx 50m2. All block work done and backfilled with...

Folks hope you can help. Shortly due to tile a bathroom floor, which is wooden. I'm replacing all the floorboards with 22mm t&g P5 chipboard, glued and screwed. I'm not sure if I'm best then using 6mm HB over the top to tile onto or to use decoupling matt instead. Don't know if it makes a...

Hi all, any help would be greatly appreciated. The kitchen floor I'm tiling (with 600x300 porc) is concrete, it does need levelling and was planning on using mapei. Once I've self levelled would I still need a de coupling membrane on top? I couldn't see any cracks, but there may well be some...

Hi I am posting in the hope that someone may be willing to offer me some advice about floor tiles in a new build property. The house has a screed floor with under-floor heating. I need to have about 100 sq metres tiled downstairs (hall, kitchen, utility, living room). The tile will be...

I am going to be tiling my upstairs bathroom that has a wooden floor. It originally had wooden floorboards 22mm thick. We have removed all the tongue and groove floor boards as they were rotten and uneven. The joists were solid and in good nick. It has now been sheeted with 22mm Ply and screwed...

Hi All, Can someone please advice on the following..... I have a proforma shower tray (20mm) that is sitting on the joist . Butted up against the tray is 18mm ply to form the wetroom floor. Question - do I lay decoupling membrane over the shower tray and ply? or can I lay the membrane over the...

Hi, I've put some latex self level on a ply overlay(all done right) and wondered if I could use some thick DPM sheet as a decoupling membrane - am totally skint and wondered if anyone has tried this or what you think please? cheers

Hi Looking for advice for decoupling membrane. I have around 60m2 to tile with 20mm limestone tiles. Main room is 40m2 with expansion gap in mmiddle. I have put wet UFH and screeded with sand cement. Screed has been down and 10 weeks now and heating has been on full blast with no problems...

Has anybody purchased any of the red decoupling matting now supplied by the UnderFloorHeatingStore. For the pro grid system they previously used the xoxo one by dura. Now they’re using a red one which I’ve seen on Alibaba from Chin. Anybody even tried any of these matings from China? Is this...

Hi all, I would appreciate some professional advice please. I have 10mm porcelain tiles for a garden front path leading to door. The path will be reinforced 120mm concrete. I am also laying these tiles just inside the door, as this will be part of the same concrete slab, however, the tiles...

Howdy. I'm in the middle of a DIY upgrade of a 1st floor shower room, which is around 8m2. So far i have lifted the 22mm chipboard and fully strengthened/screwed on all joins. installed 10mm XPS boards and leveled across a 1500x900 tray former. Electric UFH fitted and just at the weekend there i...

Looking for a mat to help stop any movement between solid hallway floor and suspended ceiling over cellar. Victorian geometric tiles over top. BAL or Mapei - any preference? Cheers TN.

self build completed 10 years ago, large kitchen diner on 65mm hand mixed screed, with no stress relief joints & wet UFH! Tiled with limestone, found that the tilers switched to cheaper adhesive not suitable for UFH approx a third of the way through the job, they then added flex fluid to the...