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    mapei DPM Adhesive?? screed floor adhesive?

    Hi Can you tile straight onto mapei Liquid DPM? It has had two coats and is shiny black:thumbsup: Hoping there is a adhesive i can use to tile porcelain / ceramic tiles straight onto it as floor height is restricted. if not then im thinking to either use arditex na latex screed and then tile...
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    DPM needed for behind marine ply for shower surround?

    Hi, I've been getting conflicting advice about whether I should put a DPM behind the marine ply I've got to support the tiles for my shower surround. The reason I'm using marine ply is because I'm making my own tiles- an old artist friend of mine has done this too, made all the floor tiles for...
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    DPM Over Existing Tiles

    Hi, I want to retile one of my rooms, but first I need to raise the floor with 50mm unbonded screed. The room is a bit damp, hence why I believe there is no DPM present so wish to install my own before raising the floor ready for tiling so my question is: I'm a bit stuck for time with other...
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    Mira Xplan over Thoro Seal DPM

    Hi Everyone, I am floor screeder/plasterer.From tiime to time I take on jobs which require difficult and uneven substrates to be prepared for tilers. I have looked at a job today which requires a liquid DPM and a latex over that will cover from 8 to 45 mm. I have found the Mira Xplan to be a...
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    Original Style Victorian tiles + EUFH on to concrete - with no DPM incorporated

    Hi tilers - need some advice please: 1930s house - original floor construction was concrete slab onto earth, bitumen DPM then floorboards nailed to slab. We've bought the tiles, Themonet EUFH, DPM IT One Coat, Level IT one HDB and Prime IT N, Proflex SP+ES on the advice of the local supplier...
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    Kitchen floor, underfloor heating, screed and DPM

    Hi All, I am soon to 're do' my kitchen floor and wanted to run a few things by you. My kitchen will be having damp proof work done to it soon and will have tanking at the bottom. The kitchen floor has been dug up and it appears as though we have hot soil/screed (doesn't look as though there...
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    Strongcoat DPM - used to speed up tiling??

    Here's a right fishy tale, story goes like this: fasttrack project, extension to building, no ditra required so height not allowed for in new screed, the tiling is due to carry on from existing. The "7-day" fibre reinforced sand cement screed, was poured without any "7day additive" in it so we...
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    DPM and Underfloor heating

    Hi, I'm refitting the kitchen in our 1930s house. I've taken up the old ceramic floor tiles and found some 15mm thick red (quarry) small tiles undernear, which I've taken up also. These red tiles go under the internal and external walls I think (atleat under the plaster). Underneath is...
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    Damp cement base limestone and UFH, DPM, Ditra questions

    Hi, I'm new to the board and I wasn't sure where to post my questions as they seem to cover a few forums. I have a tiler coming to lay some 825x550x20 Mandarin Taj Grey Limestone tiles but we have a problem with one of the rooms the tiles are going to be laid in. The room has a damp floor...
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    DPM Application

    Hi All I am about to put Tremco Treadfast One coat on my anhydrite conservatory floor ready for tiling. It says on the pot that I should use a 2mm by 5mm notched trowell. I don't have a notched trowell. Can I use a flat trowell or a roller. I have far more than I need so it does not matter if...

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