thickness

Hi can anyone tell me what thickness of thermal will I need when installing my ufh. I'm installing onto concrete subtrate which is in my kitchen. The big question is Does thickness matter.:smilewinkgrin:

Have a corner of a room that slopes off and Im aware mapei quote that keraflex maxi will bed to 15mm, now what Im wondering is that a finished bed thickness ie once tile has been layed or bed as in trowel notch size ie 10mm round notch trowel?:mad2:

Firstly hi, my first post on this forum. I have a bathroom floor to tile , standard bathroom not a wetroom. The floor tiles are a circular mosaic. The floor is ply'd out , I will be checking for level on Tuesday and if required will level with slc . Now then I understand that using mosaics you...

HI ALL, is there any reason why i cant use 1mm spacers on a floor when laying 900x450 tiles brick bond style?

i got to do a small poarch floor 4m2 the tile is a 100mm x 100mm hexaganal qurry tile with a black 10mm x 10mm dot in each corner. problem is the quarry tile is 8mm thick and the dot tile is 3mm thick instead of packing each dot up with addy i had a brainwave, a cheap 6x6 white tile from...

Hi all, after a bit of advice had a trawl through previous posts but can't find anything specific. I need to bring the thickness of a kitchen wall out a bit to cover the back edge of a kitchen worktop that had to be brought out from the wall by about 8-9mm. The wall is new 15mm dab and skimmed...

Hi all, I'm new to this forum but seems to offer lots of good advice. I'm look to fix some 300x300x10mm travertine to some marmox boards fixed to battons. Any recommendations on what thickness (and product) of adhesive i should use? The reason I ask, is that i need to join the boards to an...

Hi all Thoughts would be appreciated from anybody whose used Marmox backer boards before on walls before. First time i've used these products before and have looked them up. In the shower enclosure one wall is stud and the other block. I looked at the Wedi manual and they say a minimum of...

Hi guys, I'm from Germany and I hope you can help me. I have to cut porcelain from RAK-Ceramics The tiles are 1,00mx1,00m and is 15mm thick. I wanted to buy a TX1200N but the the technical division form RUBI told me, that is very heavy to break this tiles. And it's not sure that the TX1200N...

I have a shower enclosure to do field tile 600x300x 10 m/m horisontal and mosaic 300m/m sq 8 m/m thick in the corners, so a difference of 2m/m any sugestions on this. On borders I have often made a template but with this being a corner and 2 300m/m mosaic mats involved it wont be possible. Any...

Hello guys start a floor job with porcelain tiles next week,the floor at the moment is layed with the chip board tongue and groove boards what type of plyboard thickness you think i should use. Also does anyone know where i can find a decent cutting blade for angle grinder for cutting...

I am trying to figure out how much adhesive I going to need for my floor. I though this was simple (and maybe it is), but I am wondering how you work this our for a given trowel size If I use a 12mm notched trowel, I am presuming this is not 12mm of adhesive thickness as I am presuming the...

After reading about tanking on this forum I decided to do this prior to fitting tiles above my shower bath. Got a kit by Dunlop from Screwfix which seemed OK. However, when I read instructions it was only enough to cover 1m above top of shower tray (assuming you are doing 3 sides) This was not...

Hi - am in the middle of finishing off kitchen revamp and now need to complete tiling using glass mosaic tiles held on 30cm x 30cm mesh. 2 questions, answers to which would really help me out please.... 1) how do you get a consistent layer of 'solid bed' adhesive on a wall that's not too even...

I,m starting a travertine floor in morn with 400 x 600 from Fired Earth. When removing tiles from pallet today i noticed they were varied thickness ? I contacted Fired Earth and they say they have a 2mm tolerance ? All the stuff i have ever fitted from CTD has always been same thickness! I...

trying to estimate the combined thickness of tiles and adhesive once on wall and set. Are we talking 2 or 3 mm, or more for the adhesive? Guess it depends on trowel used. Thanks Alex

Hi need some help, just about to do my first slate floor would it be ok to use 4mm ply as floor height is an issue would this be ok to use? hope someone can give me some advice thanks

Hi, I'm wondering if anyone can help me. I'm about to install limestone flooring and have narrowed my choice down to 2, both of which are comparable in monetary terms. One of the products is 11mm thick and the other is 20mm thick. I'm planning to put electric UFH with good insulation boards...

Need to build a stud wall in the bathroom, as I am splitting the room into 2. The smaller part will be the new shower area. Q. What is the least thickness of stud wall I can get away with? Q. Can I get away with using 6mm Hardibacker to hang 450x320x9 ceramic Padova tiles? The wall will be...

I am trying to lay some large wall tiles (17kg per m2) and believe I may have a problem because the existing wall is plaster. One idea is to remove the plaster and the fit a tile backerboard. If I did this would a 6mm board be OK and would I just use tile adhesive to fix to the bare brick work?