floor height

  1. J

    Increasing porch floor height prior to tiling

    I'm planning on tiling my porch, and the tiles and adhesive will take up around 13mm of height. The porch is currently back to the concrete slab, which is around 70mm below finished floor height. This means making up 50-60mm of height. This seems too thick for bonded screed, and too thin for...
  2. J

    Tiling over screed/plywood floor with height differences.

    Hi guys. Im a carpenter who has tiled a fair few floors over the years as i fit a lot of kitchens. I have turned up today on a job and have been offered the floor tiling with ceramic tiles. Its a big area (64sq/m) but a third of it is a new extension with a screeded floor. There is then a 12mm...
  3. C

    Floor heights , laying mosaics on concrete slab

    Hi everyone, I’ve a fairly basic question I thinks, hope someone can help me out with. I’m going to be laying some mosaics on a foot path leading to my front door but before I can do that I need to lay a new concrete slap to get a gradient from door to public footpath height. I’m struggling...
  4. N

    Tiled floor height to bifold door

    Hi, I've had a new extension built with bifold doors. I'm raising the floor height of the concrete floor, but I'm unsure how high i can take the total floor build up including tiles. My intended height is where the green line is, is that possible or could i go higher if needed. On my doors, the...
  5. AP tiler

    Using SLC to bring existing floor height to the height of extension floor.

    Hi All. Im a tiler based in Cheltenham and new to the forum. Im tiling about 86m2 of planks next week and need to level the floor before hand(long weekend job). The problem that I have is that in the existing part of the house, the floor is about 20/25mm lower than the extension concrete floor...
  6. L

    Advice On Floor Prep. Several Slabs & A Large Deviance In Floor Height.

    I'm pricing a job atm where the customer would like the floor tiling from the kitchen straight into the bathroom. The house was derelict for a long time and the floor is a mess. My big concern is the serveral slabs etc, the floor height can be built up in SLC and bulked out with sharp sand in...
  7. J

    Wetroom novice - floor height problems

    Hi all, I'm new to this wetroom game, and indeed the tiling game, so please go easy on me! My problem is this: I have a Victorian house with old, gappy floorboards of approx. 20mm thickness. My original plan was to remove these entirely and lay 18mm exterior ply, then 10mm Orbry backer...
  8. B

    Wooden Floor height

    Need to over board usually use ply, but putting ufh then some latex slc and on top that of that Ditra, will I be better using a backer board instead of ply to keep the height down, will it be strong enough and whats reccomended.

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