I'm after some advice on how to build in expansion gaps for my kitchen floor.
The floor is 8sqm, and my current plan is as follows -
leave a 5 - 10mm perimeter at all areas where floor meets walls.
But what do I do with this gap? Do I put some special tape in it to stop thermal bridging or...
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Tell the story quick, one of my workmates was changing a tile in my boss's kitchen due to it being chipped,as he removed it and the addy he accidentally made a very small nick into the plastic coating round one of the elements and now the electric keeps tripping when he turns it on ,anyone know...
Has anyone heard whether Floor Heating Liimited, Basingstoke are still in business? The website seems to have disappeared and I cant get any info about their business status. I can ring them on Monday of course but I was hoping to order my gear tonight.
If they aren't trading are their...
Hi all - greeting from Sweden.
I'm working on a project right now - rebuilding my "uteroom" - an outdoor room that we use for 1-3 seasons. The room itself is dry - walls on all four sides and a roof - One wall is the back of our house, one wall is our neighbor's uterum, one wall is...
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Hi All,
I have a job coming up soon that poses a bit of a dilemma and would like your advice and opinions please, its an upstairs bathroom floor in an old cottage, the floorboards have been badly re-laid at some time and are 22mm chipboard, the floor is solid with no movement but definitely not...
Hi, I'm looking for some advice please
We recently had our kitchen floor tiled to match the existing floor of our adjoining extension. The kitchen floor was over an inch lower. We had an ufh co who laid a cork base over the old tiles (which had no movement), then the heating mat and then a...
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Hi,
We're in the process of renovating our kitchen and have chosen these tiles in 600mm square size: stonesuperstore.co.uk/p-357-black-starlight-quartz-tiles.aspx
I phoned to order them today and was advised we shouldn't use them with underfloor heating which has rather messed up our plans...
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Hi i have a job coming up and need some advice, it is on a concrete floor which is at least a year old and has pipe heating underneath it which has been commisioned and the screed conditioned. can i tile straight to the concrete with flexi adhesive or do i need a decoupling membrane down? also...
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Take a look at this fact sheet, page 6. The section regarding tiling .
Option 1....hmmmm direct to aluminium foil ????
Option 3... Fix a moisture stable, rigid non-insulating tilebacker board to the overfloor panel with
MAPEI KERABOND T & MAPEI ISOLASTIC (100%) or MAPEI ELASTORAPID
• Bond...
Hi guys,
OK so the customer has done the prep work i.e, fitted the backer boards with flexi tile adhesive and 100's of screws to secure the boards. He's fitted the electrical UFH system and the floor is now ready to tile.Which is the best way to tile over the UFH system ? I recommended to the...
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Hello
I'm looking to lay a limestone floors of about 24m3, using large stones (900x600x20). The existing floor is concrete (35 years old, not newly laid), and the plan is: adhesive, 10mm marmox boards, heatmat, levelflex fibre compound, then (about a week later) tilemaster adhesive (standard...
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Hi There,
Need advice please, we are set on buying White Mirror fleck Quartz tiles for our Conservatory (new built) and we definitely would want to install underfloor heating. The company we bought the underfloor heating materials warned us to be careful and confirm first if Quartz is suitable...
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Hi All.
Every time I install underfloor heating under tiles I have a problem with finding metal door bars to match the rest of the house because of the height difference which is usually about 30mm from top of tile to underside of carpet.
Once I've fitted the (10mm) insulation boards plus...
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Hi,
I'm due to start a job tomorrow installing beautiful 600x600 black basalt tiles onto a wet ufh system from wundafloor. However I'm really concerned about the advice I've received from wundafloor. On speaking with them they say that tiling directly onto the system with any s2 adhesive is...
Hi I've tiled onto 9mm and 12mm ply for years but got a job comen up and the floor boards are sound and have very little movement and going to put 12mm ply down with underfloor heating and travertine on top using weber flex but now there is so meney ways to do this now and people saying so...
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Hi - I'm looking to install a Jupiter UFH - the System between Joists in a Victorian conversion on the second floor. Anybody have previous experience with installing this system. The system will go under tile and under engineered wood floors.
Any other comparative systems that work, especially...
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The UK’s first fully functional underfloor heating showroom has opened to the public. It displays a number of heating systems complete with tiles fixed using Ultra Tile and Ultra Floor materials.
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Hi Guys,
Bit of advice, had a job when the customer wants over 65m2 of Porcelain laid into a garage floor, not a drama but what would you say about laying electric heating mesh under the whole lot? Is that likely to be a nightmare? Only ever done small areas?
Rob
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