wet ufh

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    tiling on wet ufh

    Hi guys I need some advice on wet ufh. kitchen size 52 sq mtrs 7.050 x 7.4 mtrs tiling through hall to wet room. hall 1.5 x 8.0 mtrs long. screed sand cement with fibres.65mm deep. need correct procedure before tiling please.re drying time and ufh comisioning. should i use expantion joint...
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    tiling over wet ufh

    Merry Christmas everyone ! Just a quickie before we all break up, a customer of mine is installing wet ufh in his bathroom and has been advised to top this with 6mm play and tile onto that with flexi addy. I know this to be not best practice but what would be the best solution. Would it be best...
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    Wet UFH over existing concrete and limestone tiling

    Afternoon all! First post and not a Tiler but am hoping for some advice to prevent problems in the future. I am a farmer by trade so could do with some help on advising our builder on how we wish our floor constructed. We are renovating and extending a barn that has been converted previous to...
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    Slate over wet ufh

    Hi peeps, just a question and would appreciate any input, I am pricing a un-calibrated opus pattern slate floor. This is over a wet ufh system, my concerns are , would you think slate, given it's quite fragile nature would stand up to the heating / cooling cycle without shelling / flaking etc...
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    Wet UFH what screed would you use?

    I've just had an extension built and I'm going to be installing wet UFH. The room will be an open plan kitchen / sitting room with a floor size of 35 square meters. The UFH system is a polypipe system using trays to lay the pipes onto. We are looking a tiling on top of the UFH and though the...
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    Wet UFH and sub

    Just wondering what everyones thought are about sub. After disscussion with builder about sub floors on wet ufh. ok so ufh is layed then chipboard sub ontop, I suggested 15mm ply ontop to ensure strength then mapeitex followed by tile. He wants chipboard the backerboard and tile. so whats...
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    Wet UFH - Straight onto screed or plywood?

    Hello all, Can't quite believe my luck that I've stumbled across this forum as I'm looking for a professional tiler in the East London/Essex area. :hurray: I have a question before I get a tiler in though. I am laying UFH in the ground floor of my house, in some areas it will be on a...
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    HBB over wayrock with wet UFH beneath..

    Whats the crack??? Won a job yesterday for a monster of a house :drool5: Downstairs no probs - 110m2 floors onto screeded base with wet UFH pipes built in :thumbsup: Upstairs - the floors are wayrock over wet UFH pipes; i've specified 6mm HBB over the top before floor tiling, but am...
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    Slate tiles onto screeded floor with wet UFH

    Can anyone help with the following. I intend to buy 85sqm of 800 x 400 10/12mm thick brazilian slate tiles to be laid onto a screed floor that has wet UFH installed. 20 sqm of the above is to laid outside to form a patio. We have had a set of sliding doors fitted and the threshold is now...
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    Electric UFH vs Wet UFH - My Verdict

    For the last 3 days I have been extensively researching how to heat my new build bungalow in the most energy efficient way. It is a super insulated shell at the moment - at near passive house levels. It's only 50sqm - all open plan (except bathroom) with 'Optitherm' double glazed windows and...
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    Polypipe Overlay wet UFH system

    Hi all Would like to ask if anybody has experience of tiling onto the Polypipe Overlay wet UFH system. Briefly the system is polybutylene pipes slotted into preformed grooves of a large panel system that are stapled together at the edges.According to the tech data sheet the panel is gypsum...
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    wet ufh on suspended wooden floor

    i have intalled a wet ufh system to a new extension. battened out joists,layed down kingspan layed down ufh system ,covered with a 8 to 1 dry biscuit mix and the put 18mm wpb ply down. what do i do next? what prep work do i need to do? and most importantly what adhesive and grout do i use? i do...
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    Limestone slabs over wet UFH what adhesive?

    Hi, I'm selfbuilding, hope someone can help with chosing adhesive for our floor. We have black limestone slabs to lay over underfloor heating pipes (concrete slab base, 50mm kingspan and wet UFH pipes in sand cement screed) and need to know which is the right adhesive to use for it. The floor...
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    a few hairline cracks in screed over wet UFH

    I have a project that is an area of 70m3 which is across 4 rooms, 3 being open plan. A kithen, dining room and conservatory are all open plan with a utility area that is a seperate room. All rooms have under floor heating (Wet) and have had the ready mixed sand/cement screeding layed at 80mm...

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