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    Tiles on wooden floor: moving and grout cracking

    Hi all. First post as I found this forum whilst searching for my problem. Had a builder round last March to "do" my 1st floor bathroom (move wall, plaster, paint, tile install new suite). The floor which floor boards was covered in 6mm marine ply, screwed every ft and flexible adhesive and...
    • pilsburypie
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    • crack cracking debonding floor floor tiling grout grout cracking tile tile grout tiles usa wooden wooden floor
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    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    tiling on a wooden floor

    hi fellas im about to tile my kitchen floor which i have prepared with 12mm wbp ply screwed at 300mm centres. I intend to use BAL SPF Adhesive but i have read on another forum that i should have primed the underside of the ply? Is this correct?
    • hairymary
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    • floor floor tiling tiling usa wooden wooden floor
    • Replies: 15
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    priming wooden floor

    i am laying porcelain tiles using kerriquick and latex , i have boards screwed onto floorboards at 100m spaces, these are 12mm boards and are clean and dry, do i prime them and what with , i normally use pva , but have not used mapei before , please advise thanks...
    • gingergeordie
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    • floor floor tiling priming usa wooden wooden floor
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    Wooden Floor

    Morning All I have just ben asked to fit an engineered wooden floor which is going down on a concrete base, The slab has water based underfloor heating. Do I need any special membrane or just a dpc ? Regards Gary
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    Tanking a wooden floor

    Hi All I have laid a 22 mm Plywood floor in my bathroom and now need to tank it. I have bought a Durabase WP membrane to do the job. I will be using Mapei Keraquick Adhesive to lay the membrane. My only question is do I need to treat the wooden surface on which I will be laying the Durabase...
    • cgadmin23
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    • floor floor tiling tank tanking usa waterproofing wetroom wooden wooden floor
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    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    Tiling on wooden floor boarsds/concrete floor

    Hello all, I am currently doing up my kitchen and the next job is tilling my floor. The problem is have is that half of my kitchen is floor boards, and the other half is concrete. There is a small ridge where the floor board and concrete meet which varies in height - slopping down towards...
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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...
    • philips
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    • floor floor tiling suspended ufh usa wet wet ufh wooden wooden floor
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    travertine tiles wooden floor

    hi I need help please I have had my son tile my b athroom floor he lined the floor with hard board on top of marine ply floor. he used agrout that i now know was out of date (didnt know it went out of date ) it was sold to me out of date and the tiles are lifting and the gout cracking. I...
    • toti
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    • floor floor tiling tile tiles travertine usa wooden wooden floor
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    Wooden Floor height

    Need to over board usually use ply, but putting ufh then some latex slc and on top that of that Ditra, will I be better using a backer board instead of ply to keep the height down, will it be strong enough and whats reccomended.
    • bathroomboy
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    • floor floor height floor tiling usa wooden wooden floor
    • Replies: 19
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    Flex adhesive on wooden floor

    Hi, My 1st post, here goes.... Have been tiling for 2 years now but come across a problem today that has never happened before. Am tiling onto a wooden chipboard floor that that has been overboarded with ply and primed. I have used a single part PALACE rapid set flex adhesive as movement...
    • PJS Sully
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    • adhesive flex floor floor tiling tile adhesive usa wooden wooden floor
    • Replies: 23
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    wooden floor problem

    I have recently tiled a new wooden floor spec as follows new joists set at 300mm centres then over boarded with 18mm wpb ply fixed with 50mm screws every 200mm. The tile is 450 sq ceramic supplied by Topps, I used their rapid set flexi adhesive spread with a 10mm notched trowel, advised by them...
    • marty13
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    • floor floor tiling problem usa wooden wooden floor
    • Replies: 29
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    Vibration Through Suspended Wooden Floor

    I've been asked to tile a kitchen floor. The floor is a suspended wooden floor that has been covered in vinyl tiles - which are still well stuck down even though they were laid 40 years ago. The main problem is that when the washing machine is going through its spin cycle you can feel a...
    • Argyll Eagle
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    • floor floor tiling suspended usa wooden wooden floor
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    fixing hardie backer on wooden floor

    I have been trawling all over the forum for a definitive recommendation on fixing 6mm hardie backer board to a failrly solid 22mm thick t&g wooden floor but I cant find the answer anywhere - even on the thread where the hardie rep introduced himself and then disappeared ! I just went to my...
    • captain pugwash
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    • fixing floor floor tiling hardie tile backerboard usa wooden wooden floor
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    Looking for Tler and/or wooden floor Layer Cheshire

    We are finishing a renovation job just outside of Knutsford Cheshire,my team of polish guys are taking three weeks off from the end of this week so i have work available anytime in the next 2 weeks for a good tiler to lay just under 30sqm of Galaxy Granite tiles. I also have approx 60 sqm of...
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    Info needed wooden floor opinions

    In my training I was always told to use min 15 mm ply on top of floorboards or to remove the floor boards and put it straight onto the joists . However I have never used this I have always used no more ply at 6mm and benfoflex with no problems except it can take an extra day to get it down...
    • dayglowfroggy
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    • floor floor tiling needed opinions usa wooden wooden floor
    • Replies: 12
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    advice please fixing large porcelain tiles on wooden floor

    Hi everyone , i have got 600 x 600 porcelain tiles to lay on a new t&g chipboard floor. there is some slight movement in the floor but not a great deal. the whole floor is screwed down well. one tile shop said if there is any movement at all the tiles will break. has anyone got any experience...
    • pepper007
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    • advice fixing floor floor tiling large please porcelain porcelain tile porcelain tiles tile tiles usa wooden wooden floor
    • Replies: 13
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    Bathroom wooden floor needs leveling

    Hi all Got a bathroom floor to do soon ,the plywood is already down but there is a high spot in the floor near the edge ,when puting my spirit level across the floor from the high spot i would have to raise the floor to almost 20 mm to keep it level with the edge. Question is will it be ok to...
    • postie
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    • bathroom floor floor tiling leveling usa wooden wooden floor
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Bathroom Tiling Advice
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    Wooden Floor Runs Out - Help!?

    Re: Any new tilers stuck at all, with anything? Hi Dan how do level up a bathroom floor thats thats 20mm out of level its tounge and groved and been overlaid with 15 ply ?.
    • Jamie.I
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    • floor floor tiling help out usa wooden wooden floor
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: British & UK Tiling Forum
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    Concrete and Wooden Floor

    Have just had kitchen extension built and am now left with half concrete half floor boards. I want to lay ceramic tiles and was wondering what preparation the floor would require. Marine ply? Hardboard?
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