expansion

Hi, can I please ask for some advice. I am laying 70m2 of porcelain tiles in 4 size opus pattern. The floor is one half new extension (floor levelled about 2 months ago), the other old concrete. I am laying electric underfloor heating. I have patched the old floor to make it as even as...

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Hi there I'm looking to price for a 78M floor in a car showroom and wondered how many expansion joints I need to cater for if any? The tiles are solid bodied porcelain being fixed to concrete albeit with a SLC applied. Area is basically a 13M x 6M rectangle and they don't plan to put cars...

Hello, I'm curious, when tiling into corners, is their any particular reccomendation for gaps? I was trying to cut my 8mm ceramic into the corners with a couple of mm to keep it neat, and the Silicon bead size in keeping with my grout joint? Am I ok, or do I need to leave a bigger gap...

Hi All If you have in screed UFH over an area of 220m2 finished in limestone flags with decoupling layer, how the hell do you impliment expansion joints which are recommended every 40m2 in a lafarge pumped screed. I have seen the Schulter expansion joints but they all seem to be put in against...

Ive just been to see a 50m2 floor to be tiled in mixed size limestone. The area is a 7mx7m square room and the screed is Gyvlon with wet uf heating. I was just going to use ditra mat but wondered if this would be enough, obviously expansion joints would be highly visible due to having to...

Hi all, For the past year i have done alot of work for a shop fitter and i always use expansion joint every 5m. However on my travels i tend to some times see other tiler have not used them. Just wondering why not aprt from the obvious. or is it due to the fact they use a single part flexi...

hey was just reading the chaps post whose having the problem with the tiles cracking and a few folk mention expansion joints are these those strips with the rubber in between and in what situations would they be used. i know how timber moves and changes shape from the laminate floors and timber...

Hi All, my first post, be gentle... I am having the ground floor of my house tiled with 600 x 600 polished porcelain. It's going to be a continuous job from the sunroom (5m x 7m with plumbed underfloor heating) through to the kitchen (3m x 7m), utility room (3m x 2m), back hall (2m x 2m) and...

Hi all,We have recently layed something like 160m2 of dural matting,Whilst undoing one of the many rolls we noticed an advice note explaining the need to still lay expansion joints,as we all know,at the end of the advice note it explains that Silicon should never used for an expansion...

External flat roof/balcony refurbishment. All tiles have been lifted - cleaned and relaid with BAL fastflex - substrate fibreglass. Joints 10-15mm. Area 15m2. There was no expansion joint before...should i put one in? fill one of the joints with Silicon? Also instead of finishing round the...

Hi everyone I have just read all that stuff Dave posted on expansion joints and was wondering if you guys have encountered any domestic type situations requiring them.If so how do you make them aesthetically pleasing and how did you decide where to put them.I have never used expansion joints...

do i need an expansion joint of any type on a floor i'm laying next week? it's ufh then slc on solid concrete, tiles are 600 x 600 porcelain (on flexi addy of course) room is approx 60m2 (L - shape) 42 ft at its widest. many thanks:thumbsup:

Hi All, Floor job coming up that will need expansion joints. What is the maximum gap i ca have before putting them in ? Would you use Silicon or a pre made one ? Anyon know where to get them ? Thanks for your help again :hurray:

hi guys,need some advice on expansion joints as i dont normally need to do them but have a job coming up where i do. floor is 30 sqm - half of exsisting substrate concrete other half floor board ( not t & g).this was what i was gonna do - secure floorboards down then 10mm backerboards of the...

Hi there, i have recently been asked to tile an area of about 320sqm with granite floor tiles. the screed has not been layed yet and i was wondering at what intervals the expansion joints should be laid, wether they must match the saw or cold joints in the screed, i phoned the suppliers of the...

Ok straight to the point...I haven't had the need for expansion joints until now. I mainly do bathrooms as thats what I promote. However I have been to look at a job today where the builder has laid the tiles (51m2) in a "g" shape ish room. The tiles are not under the skirting boards....they...

I am laying 50m2 of Trav floor and just want to know when to use expansion joints, I know what they do, but what are they actually made up of? Is a bead of Silicon ok? excuse me for my ignorance but this is the first time I have came up against this. It has all been screeded on top of...

Finally got some ply down and am nearly ready for screeding. Been reading up and i think what i may need is what is referred to as a cold joint. The plan is to put something along the edges of the ply so we can screed upto it and then when this has gone off remove and fill with the same...

Hi, I'm a fairly new tiler, trained at STC Harlow, and have been steadily building up my business over the past few months but mainly on small jobs. Done a few bathrooms, kitchens, small floors. Went to look at a job this evening, tiling almost the whole downstairs of a house, kitchen, L-shape...