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    Travertine mosaic on wooden floor

    Hi, first post so please go easy on me! I'd consider myself a competent diy-er and in the past have succesfully laid ceramic tiles on a solid floor. I've now got an en-suite shower room in which I want to lay travertine mosaic tiles. The flooring is green moisture proof chipboard, and it's a...
    • Anna Rack
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    • aus floor mosaic mosaic tiling mosaics travertine usa wooden wooden floor
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Canada Tile Advice
  2. R

    definitive advice needed, wooden floor

    I have got a solid floor, that is made from floorboards and I would pike to tile it in 300*300 quartz mirror fleck tiles. Please can you confirm that I have got the right idea? * Screw 12mm wbp ply to floor (screws every 300mm) * Electric UFH * Tile using rapid set flexible adhesive...
    • rogerdygas
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    • advice aus floor needed usa wooden wooden floor
    • Replies: 14
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
  3. R

    Hardi backer or ditra on wooden floor????

    If this has been asked before I apologise, maybe someone can point me to a thread that covers this. I see many posts where tilers mention that, on wood, they don't tile without putting ditra down first and other posts mention just backer board or ply/backerboard. The question is when is it best...
    • Ren+
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    • aus ditra floor hardi backer tile backerboard usa wooden wooden floor
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    suitable substrate for wooden floor

    Hi I would be grateful for some advice. I have been asked to tile a bathroom floor. The flooring is currently wooden floorboards with 6mm or hardboard on top of floorboards with a lino covering. The WC is also raised up approx 10cm on a plinth with curved edges, above the height of the floor...
  5. F

    Tiling over a tongue and groove wooden floor boards laid on concrete

    Hi, This is my first post so Hi to everybody! My question being I want to tile using Travertine tiles on to 20mm thick tongue and groove floorboards which are glued using a bitumen type substance and also nailed at intervals directly into a concrete floor - do I need to use a tile backer board...
    • figgy2000
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    • boards concrete floor tiling usa wooden wooden floor
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
  6. M

    Tling over suspended wooden floor

    Hi all, I recently knocked through our kitchen dining room. The floor is a suspended wooden ground floor (flat edge floor boards) in a 1930's bungalow. I'm looking to lay 600 x 600 porcelain tiles, but I want to add as little as possible height to the floor as possible. The floor seems very...
  7. F

    Wooden floor

    I started marking out today, in an attic. Floor boards and the plumber has already put an Imply tray in, plus the sticky membrane. I was going to put in ditramat mat, but as the plumber has now done this, do I need the ditramat mat?
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    How do you soundproof a wooden floor in a first floor flat?

    I need to tile a kitchen and bathroom in a first floor flat with wooden floors, so they need to be soundproofed to comply with the changes to regs 2004 part E (resistance to the passage of sound). Does anyone know how to do this and where the products can be found to do it? I have read that you...
  9. M

    Screed and wooden floor

    Hi Ive got to qoute on laying porcelain floor tiles 60 x 60cm on a floor 24.5m2. Half the floor is quarry tiles which are soundly fixed, and the other half is chipboard. I take it you would use a decoupling membrane, my question is do you use it on the whole floor or where the two subtrates...
  10. S

    Laying tiles on wooden floor with G-flex

    Hi, looking for advice on laying ceramic floor tiles in our wooden floored bathroom. The area to be tiled is 1500mm x 1300mm, and is currently covered with a 4mm layer of hardboard to which is attached self-adhesive vinyl tiles. We now want to lift this, and lay 600mm x 295mm ceramic floor...
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    Preparing a wooden floor for tiling

    Hi all, I was wondering if you can help. I'm taking on my first tiling project to tile my kitchen floor and keep reading different advice on different websites so was hoping you all may be able to give the best advice! I'm tiling my floor to improve the surface and also to stop smells...
  12. Sean Kelly

    Removing wooden floor from underneath kitchen cabinets.

    Went to view a kitchen yesterday. The kitchen cabinets are sitting on 15mm solid wood flooring. The flooring is bulging in the middle of the floor. I believe this is caused because the heavy kitchen is sitting on the wood and the wood has nowhere to expand to (except upwards). Customer wants...
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    Wooden floor prep advice

    Hi Guys, not posted for a while as when I've needed help i've found it using a search. Anyhow, I have a job to quote for which is approx 20 sq m of 45cm x 45cm porcelain floor tiles in a village hall kitchen area. The main area of 16 sq m is wooden floor boards, reasonably solid (no noticable...
    • loaderman
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    • advice floor floor prep prep usa wooden wooden floor
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    Wooden floor with brick in door frame

    I'm tiling a kitchen floor over a suspended wooden floor (overboarded). At the rear of the kitchen is a large doorway and windows to the garden, wooden framed but mounted in the concrete/brick. The brickwork is approx 150mm wide, it and the overboarded floor are at the same height and tiles...
    • tim_r
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    • brick door door frame floor frame usa wooden wooden floor
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    Travetine tiles / wooden floor / underfloor heating

    Thank you for your time..... I have a customer who has very un-even floor boards. She wants to use electric heat membrane and travetine tiles. IF i am to take this on obviously I want to make sure it is done correctly and I have had varying levels of advice, so time to ask the professionals...
    • Here to learn!
    • Thread
    • floor heating tile tiles ufh underfloor underfloor heating usa wooden wooden floor
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    Fixing Travertine on wooden floor and skimmed plasterboard.

    Morning all, I'm still part-part time and, erm, I'm frankly feeling out of my depth here. I searched the forum for travertine fitting but cannot find anything about laying upstairs on a modern build 18mm floor, appologies in advance if this a duplicate I've not found. I've not used any stone...
    • Legohair
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    • fixing floor plasterboard travertine usa wooden wooden floor
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    Advice on laying travertine tiles on part concrete/ part wooden floor

    Apologies if this has already been answered as I know there is lots of info on plywood floors here, but think our situation is unique. We've got a kitchen that is part concrete floor, part wooden, and a small section of brick (where an old stove once sat). We would like to lay travertine tiles...
    • Speppin
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    • advice concrete floor laying tile tiles travertine usa wooden wooden floor
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
  18. R

    Ceramic tiles on wooden floor

    Hello I am having to replace a floor 13metres by 6 metres in my house which is in France...cracked ceramic tiles stuck on a blown chipboard floor with warped and rotten joists cut in to 35cm square wooden beams. The floor covers lounge and kitchen NO bathroom...that will be a different...
    • Rusty John
    • Thread
    • ceramic ceramic tile ceramic tiles floor tile tiles usa wooden wooden floor
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    Levelling wooden floor

    Having lined a wooden bathroom floor with 18mm ply, have found there is a dip in the centre of the floor to a maximum depth of some 10mm at the centre. The depression is nearly 1 metre across. The rest of the floor is ok. The least difficult option seems to be applying a levelling compound. The...
  20. J

    Marble tiles on wooden floor

    Guy's Had a look at a job today, it's a ground floor bathroom, floor has been laid with 18mm ply on 6"x2" joists @ 200mm centres. they want to lay marble tiles, approx 300mm square. Because of any potential movement in the floor, would you recommend using a de-coupling mat, say Ditra for...
    • john raymond
    • Thread
    • floor marble tile tiles usa wooden wooden floor
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum

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