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    Do i need insulation boards

    I have a kitchen floor to tile for a builder who is using the electric underfloor heating and was wondering if he needs to use insulation boards .the floor is 50mm sand and cement screed layed over 80mm kingspan
  2. M

    Insulation board type

    Hi, I’m about to order and lay my first UFH system on a cement screen – laid 5 months ago. I’m tempted to use cement faced tile backer boards as although more expensive I have a feeling that I will be able to walk on them while laying the mat, pouring SLC, tiling etc without worrying about...
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    Floor boards- Ply or insulation board?

    Hi Peeps Im quoting on a job and the customer is thinking of having electric UFH. The floor is floor boards so am I better off plying the floor or using insulation boards (and what thickness)? Ive read conflicting views on this and my head hurts! I plan to put slc on top of the UFH mat. The...
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    insulation board on chipboard..

    Hi folks, have a bathroom floor with UFH to tile, substrate is well screwed down chipboard. I know normally you bed the ins' boards down onto flexi adi, I'm thinking it would be ok to glue (gripfill) and screw them down with washers in this instance. What do you think? Otherwise I could...
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    UFH & insulation boards

    Just a quick question, what are your thoughts on the pro's and cons of insulation boards? Are they really needed or not? eg: 10yr old concrete floor..... board or not to board? I know what the literature says, just curious on the pro's thoughts :lol:
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    Insulation board fixing

    Hi - I am a rookie tiling my conseravtory/kitchen starting tomorrow! Am: 1) priming concrete 2) Laying insulation boards (cheap blue ones) with flexi addi 3) UFH instalation 4) SLC 5) Slate 40x40 6) Seal 7) Grout 8) Seal When I am laying the boards I...
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    Used Mapei Mapeker underneath insulation boards...... will it ever dry?

    Never fitted down insulation boards before, but this morning I fitted down some warmup cement faced insulation boards using Mapei Mapeker I used a 10mm U-notched trowel to ensure a decent coverage. I made the mix up a little looser than normal as I was paranoid it was going to go off a bit too...
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    • adhesive boards dry grout insulation insulation boards mapei mapei adhesive mapei grout usa used
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    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    Mapeker for fixing down Warmup insulation boards?

    I have a few bags of Mapeker to use up and was wondering if it would be suitable to use for fixing down warmup insulation boards, and then again on top of the warmup ufh (loose wire) for fixing down ceramic floor tiles. Also, what size trowel is best for the boards??? Substrate is concrete...
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    • boards down fixing insulation insulation boards usa warmup
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    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    SLC & 2 insulation boards

    Long shot I know, but if anyone is near Grimsby or Scunthorpe I have two thirds of a 25kg bag of Mapei Ultraplan Maxi and 2x Marmox 6mm insulation boards to give away (collection only). PM me if interested :thumbsup:
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    25mm sandstone slabs laid onto 50mm of jablite insulation

    Hi all Am I right to think that this is complete madness. I've been told about a job today that I might have as potential work. Its a conservatory extension with 50mm of jablite type polystyrene insulation on the floor & then some electric underfloor heating matting laid on top of that...
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    Hello from Marmox Waterproof Insulation

    Hello Everybody, I would like to introduce myself and my company, My name is Jonathan and I work for a company called Marmox Uk Ltd, for those of you that do not know what we do at Marmox, we manufacture and supply to the industry a range of Insulated and waterproof products that come in the...
    • Marmox Tech
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    • backerboard hello insulation marmox marmox backerboard tile backerboard usa waterproof
    • Replies: 13
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
  12. J

    Insulation boards

    Hi, I have just been trying to do some research on insulation boards for electric UFH. I am looking at 6mm boards due to floor height restrictions, and I would have thought costs should be comparable for different brands, due to the product being essentially the same. Some boards however (eg...
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    Insulation boards

    Hi everyone I have an understairs toilet and I need to tile the floor. I am going to treat the floor with an epoxy based liquid DPM before tiling with sand thrown on for key. The big question is should I put down an insulation board for better insulation (no point doing ufh as its just a...
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    UFH insulation

    Hi....I'm not a tiler by trade but have laid a lot of tile in my life. I am now looking at my first UFH job (my bathroom). Laying heating mats on top of concrete floor but don't have a lot of height to play with....porcelain tiles on top. 6mm insulation board is just a bit to thick I...
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    Thermal Floor Insulating Primer v Insulation Boards

    Hello good people of the board, I'm looking for some advice on my first tiling job ever. I have a kitchen (concrete floor) and an attached extension (wooden floor) to tile. I need underfloor heating at least in the kitchen to take the edge off the cold in the winter, it won't be used as the...
    • DannyVandal
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    • boards floor floor tiling insulation insulation boards primer usa
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    Tiling over insulation sheets

    Hi all, This is my first time on here & boy do I have a doozy of a problem. I've purchased electric under floor heating & the insulation sheets (not tilebacker boards, cost being the reason). The first thing that happened is that the adhesive supplied to me did not bond the sheets to the...
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    insulation Quinn therm 50mm in conservetory

    Hi I'm in the process of laying ufh took up the old tiles to find the screed crumbling away so I have had to removed all the screed back to the concrete base. My dilemma is this. I have got 50mm Quinn therm QL to make up the screed base but this seems to be not so ridged if you kneel on the...
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    Tanking, Underfloor Heating, Hardibacker and Insulation - HELP!!!

    Hi There. My first post on this forum... The more threads I read, the more confused I get with all the options available. Could I get feedback on my plan for the bathroom? Floor: Floorboards, then 18mm Marine Ply, then 6mm Hardipacker, then (some kind of waterproofing), then Warmup heating...
    • JWOOD
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    • floor floor tiling hardibacker heating help insulation tank tanking ufh underfloor underfloor heating usa waterproofing wetroom
    • Replies: 13
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    Kitchen floor in slate, undertile heating & insulation boards.

    Hi Folks, First post in here so hope you can offer some good advice. I Have a job to quote on in westminster London, its a concrete kitchen floor 12m2, needs priming & leveling, insulation boards laid, electric undertile heating, leveled & Tiled with modular black slate. Will need to take...
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    • bathroom boards floor floor tiling heating insulation insulation boards kitchen kitchen floor slate usa
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    insulation boards

    can anyone tell me the thinnest insulation boards you can get to put ufh on. I need to keep floor height down. Its going on a concrete floor. cheers
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