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    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...
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    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...
    • peckers
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    • customer floating floor just tile usa
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    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...
    • MTiler
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    • floating floor query usa
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    • Forum: UK Tiling Forum
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    Another Floating Floor Question....pls help!

    I have spent all day reading all the threads on here re. floating floors but think I need it spelt out to me. I have just had a large extension built and we wanted under floor heating but unfortunately due to a misunderstanding with the builder over the type of UFH system, we have ended up with...
    • Crazygirl
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    • floating floor help usa
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    • Forum: UK Tiling Forum
  5. kilty55

    floating floor

    lo all,i have an old customer asking me to tile his new extension which is being built in december the floors floating and he claims it will be fine to tile,i dont generally touch floating floors however if its a new extension they have a blank canvas to work with,is there any spec i can get...
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    BEST FLEXIBLE FLOOR GROUT (2mm joints) Floating Floor!

    Hello, Was wondering what is the best flexible grout for a polished porcelain floor with 2mm joints. (Tiled on a floating floor) Was advised by tile shop to use Mapei Ultra colour plus, adding flexible primer?? But grout has cracked, well more sort of come away from the edges. Tiler happy...
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    • best flexible floating floor grout joints tile grout usa
    • Replies: 15
    • Forum: UK Tiling Forum
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    Will this sort out a floating floor ???

    Stripped the tiles off a 1st floor apartments, Bathroom floor today to find its a floating floor. The reason the floor has failed, is due to a split bead of silicon along the shower tray,where the resulting leak as rotted the floor. I want to replace the floor, and make it a more stable surface...
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    Tiling on floating floor

    Hi I'm about to tile a bathroom floor (onto water-resistant chipbard), I have flexible adhesive, flexible grout. There is some movement, but not loads. Will a waterproof membrane help with the movement? Think I need to use a spell checker Also, to get a waterproof seal under the bath...
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    • floating floor tiling usa
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    • Forum: UK Tiling Forum
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    tiling onto floating floor

    i'm having a kitchen extension built. The floor is a floating floor type. concrete base> 4inch insulation> green flooring chipboard (glued to insulation). It is only now yhat i have been informed that i cannot have ceramic floor tiles laid onto this. Is this correct or, with the correct flexible...
    • the tin maN
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    • floating floor tiling usa
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    • Forum: UK Tiling Forum
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    Floating floor

    I have a floor to tile with Travertine. The area is 9m2 and has been prepared with a floating floor to bring it up to the height of the existing floor in the other room. The floor is to have underfloor heating. What I was going to use was 10mm Insulation boards fixed down with 2 part adhesive to...
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    Floating floor

    I've looked on a couple of previous post regarding floating floors but i still want to ask you guys if any of you have tiled a floating floor without problems. I know most say dont do it but i have seen others saying that certain manufactures do adhesives that are ok. I have a family member...
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    Floating Floor and Tiles mix?

    Hi all, Been asked to lay tile on a floating floor thats made up of 3x2 joists sitting on top of a concrete floor and has 18mm ply screwed into the joists.. Is this do-able on this floor type as ive never experienced tiling on a floor of this construction? The floor also has a slight bounce...
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    Floating Floor Advice

    Had a call today to quote for a replacement kitchen floor, 15m2 of 600 x 300 porcelain. Haven't been for a look yet but the customer has told me its a floating floor and that she thinks there has been a leak and some of the chipboard has rotted/warped. House is approxiamtely 20 years old and...
    • cjbombero
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    • advice floating floor usa
    • Replies: 20
    • Forum: UK Tiling Forum
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    Wetroom on a floating floor ???

    Been to look at a wetroom, in a basement tonight. The customer tells me that the concrete floor will be covered with a delta dpm, and a floating floor will be installed on top of this, the shower deck a insulation board type will be secured. I have always believed that you cannot tile a floating...
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    Floating chipboard - Trav?

    Hi folks, Have a job to price up, 13m2 hallway, substrate is chipboard on top of jablite on top of concrete. I've suggested to them that the only chance would be 6mm screwed and glued backerboard, and then a super flex such as Bal fast flex, then flex additive in grout. Would you? They...
    • Brindle
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    • chipboard floating usa
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    • Forum: UK Tiling Forum
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    Tiling a floating floor, How would you go about it

    Hi guys and girls, I have been to look at two bathroom floors today that have been previously tiled. The floors are floating floors and they consist of tiles laid with single part flexible adhesive onto 18mm chipboard onto polystyrene panels at 75mm thick which is then onto dpm laid on concrete...
    • peckers
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    • floating floor how tiling usa would
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    • Forum: UK Tiling Forum
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    Tiling on a floating chipboard floor.

    Hi, I've read posts regards tiling on a floating chipboard floor, i have approx 30mm of polystyrene, with 20mm of chipboard on top. There is damp proof sheet under the polystyrene then concrete under that. There is a small amount of deflection when you walk over the floor. Is there...
    • rtuzuk2
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    • chipboard chipboard floor floating floor tiling usa
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    • Forum: UK Tiling Forum
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    large format tiles on floating floor

    Hi, quick question, got to quote on a new build downstairs kitchen floor which is covered in chipboard, I believe its a floating floor (feels like it lol!) Guy would like those famous 600x600mm bq tiles laid ..I have real concerns about laying these tiles on this type of floor. I would of...
    • psychowitch
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    • floating floor format large large format tile tiles usa
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: UK Tiling Forum
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    Tiling Floating Floor over Wet Underfloor Heating

    Hi All, Just reached water tight on our new house and starting the insides. The first floor has our master bedroom with ensuite. The floor is constructed of 18mm Caberdeck glued and nailed onto Posi Joists. On top is laid the Nu-Heat wet underfloor heating system consisting of 25mm...
    • AndyH747
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    • floating floor heating tiling ufh underfloor underfloor heating usa wet
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: UK Tiling Forum
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    Slate floor tile on a floating floor

    Hi everybody, First post where there's a lot of knowledgeable people. In the coming weeks we'll be ready to put down a slate tile on to a kitchen floor which is of a floating floor construction. This is the tile we'll be using:- Natural Slate Sheera Modular I've already bought good...
    • karinia
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    • floating floor floor tile slate tile usa
    • Replies: 18
    • Forum: UK Tiling Forum

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