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  1. Del W

    Is this a floating floor ?

    Dont know if this would be classed as a floating floor. Concreate slab, then 60mm celotex, then 75mm screed. Thanks for your replies. Del.
  2. 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 ?
  3. T

    Ready to remove the dreaded floating floor

    Morning all sorry if it is a little long i have been lurking for a couple of weeks and have come to the point to crack on as i have all the materials etc it is just one bit bothering me, Big Thanks In Advance. My dilemma is the 4x2 sub frame i am going to put down on the concrete slab, Do i...
    • tommytonguedj
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    • aus floating floor floor tiling usa
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    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
  4. D

    Floating floor to concrete

    Need some advice please, We have just knocked down kitchen wall to open up through dining room.We will be tiling throughout.The problem is that the dining floor is a floating floor,chipboard on insulation and the kitchen floor is concrete.The concrete floor is 10mm lower than the floating...
    • d.bott
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    • aus concrete floating floor floor tiling usa
    • Replies: 12
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
  5. D

    tiling a floating floor

    We will be tiling a large showroom of about 180sqm in limestone. The floor is oak floorboards fixed to joists. The client is keen to not wreck the oak floor and therefore wants to lay plastic and then put two layers of chipboard screwed to each other therefore creating a floating floor. This set...
    • Deleted member 18697
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    • aus floating floor floor tiling tiling usa
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
  6. 2

    Floating floor

    Hi Guys! Have a floor too tile and it's a floating floor but seems solid, Is there any way of knowing if it's going too fail or not? And do you advise a 2 part flexi? I'm just getting loads of floaters and up until now I have walked away, But I am loosing too much business because of this. What...
    • 2020Tiling
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    • aus floating floor floor tiling usa
    • Replies: 23
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
  7. High Peak Tiling

    Floating floor?!

    Got asked to price a job up in a pizza kitchen. tiles all bouncing & cracked due to deflection (majorly) there was a hole in the floor when I got there. Mixed tiles laid onto flakey ply which laid on polystyrene insulation sheets which laid on Dmp sheet on concrete floor! ply bounces...
  8. G

    Floating Floors

    Hi, In the process of pricing 30m2 of flooring on a floating floor filled with polystyrene balls and no joists, plenty of bounce in the floor. Anybody tiled on a substrate like this and if so any tips. thanks.
    • gusgillespie
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    • aus floating floor floor tiling floors usa
    • Replies: 56
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
  9. AliGage

    Floating floors

    There's been two or three discussions on here about floating floors and wether they should or should not be tiled. Someone (maybe PJC?) suggested in one of the posts to put a laser level on the floor and see how walking around would effect the laser. With a bit of time on my hands i got a...
  10. K

    Water damage - Floating chipboard flooring.

    Thank you for viewing this thread. I am currently working on a job and upon pulling the lino up we discovered the chipboard floor has been water damaged due to two leaks which have been fixed. Now this chipboard floating floor is in a flat and water had leaked into the flat below at some...
    • kickkick
    • Thread
    • aus chipboard damage floating floor floor tiling flooring usa water
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
  11. W

    Floating stone floor?

    Hi guys. This is my first post so be nice :) Recently Iv been doing a lot of stone floors. I always start on the highest point and level everything. On bad floors im not sure this is great practice as I'm sure I'm on the limits of what the adhesive is capable of (depth wise). I have...
  12. A

    tiling over chipboard floating floor! help needed

    hi everyone, firstly i went to have a look at a kitchen floor that needed tiling.now there were tiles already down on a chipboard floating floor with foam sheets /celotex underneath it. the customer has removed all the floor tiles and surprisingly they got them up well, and got all the excess...
    • Arn Wheeler
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    • aus chipboard floating floor floor tiling help needed over tiling usa
    • Replies: 109
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
  13. T

    Weber solution for floating floors

    I'm a Newbie, so Hi to everyone first of all, I'm tiling a floating floor due to customer wanting it done even though ive stressed my concerns. Job is 22m2 and to include ufh and travertine tiles. The existing floor is 20mm t&g weyroc on 70mm polystyrene. As ive read excellent advise on here...
    • Telf
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    • adhesive floating floor floor tiling floors usa weber weber adhesive
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
  14. N

    Removing a floating floor and tiling - first timer

    Hi guys, Firstly, can I say that these forums are great!! I am a DIY newbie however being the son of a builder I really do have to give these things a bash. I live in a 3 bedroom detached house which is about 14 years old. The ground floor is the dreaded “floating” MDF on top of...
  15. B

    some sort of floating floor ?

    Hi folks went to look at a job for a customer who i am already doing work for, they lifted the laminate in the kitchen so i popped round to look. bloody hell. it looks like 50 mm of polystyrene with just 6/8mm of uniclick chipboard. nightmare. they are desperate to get it done and i kept...
  16. G

    Understood that floating floor is a no no, but what should replace it?

    I've been having an offline conversation with Sir Ramic (who has been excellent) and he suggested I bring my problem to the wider TilersForums group. We're about to start a kitchen refit in a 13 year-old house. We'd like to tile the entire downstairs excluding the main living room - so the...
    • GarryMartin
    • Thread
    • floating floor floor tiling replace should that usa what
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
  17. G

    quartz tiles over floating floor

    Hi guys ive done tiles only a few times and landed a job because im a perfectionist and will make sure the tiles are flush however i got a lot to learn and been thrown into the deep end with 55m2 of quartz tiles to do on a floor. the floor is a floating foor that has had 9mm ply over 18mm mdf. I...
    • GaryS
    • Thread
    • floating floor floor tiling over quartz tile tiles usa
    • Replies: 54
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
  18. D

    help, bathroom floor, floating T&G

    Morning all! As most of you know im not full time and still in the starting up phase of mostly family and friends... I've just been to my Nanna's house as she wants the bathroom and hall way floor tiling as the lino has been chewed by the dog! lol. Now my Nanna lives on her own as my Grandad...
    • dilz000
    • Thread
    • bathroom floating floor floor tiling help usa
    • Replies: 13
    • Forum: Bathroom Tiling Advice
  19. P

    Floating floor just tile right on it the customer was told!

    I was asked to look at a floor to be tiled just before christmas, so went and had a look and it turned out to be a floating floor! The customer had, had two other local tilers look at the job and both off them told him it could be tiled strait onto as is :yikes::yikes::yikes: So I told the...
  20. M

    Floating floor query

    Hi I need advice on a preparing a floating wood kitchen floor (16m2). It was previously tiled (600mm x 600mm porc), and now tiles are cracking. It has electric UFH, that wasnt over laid with SLC, and that is laid on the wood floor. The tiler was supposed to have laid Ditra matting, but when...
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