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Hi all,
New to this Forum. Got 10 years experience of building, do quite a few bathrooms and would like to know others peoples opinions on subfloors for tiling.
My question is regarding sub floor buildup. If a wooden joisted floor has little deflection and is covered with solid timber boards, I will usually put plenty of screws through boards into joists, cover over with ply screwed in grid formation into boards (as little as 4mm thick), glue ditra over the ply and then tile with flexi adhesive.
In a perfect world, I'd love to take up the entire floor back to joists and put down 18mm ply, counter board it with 6mm ply, glue ditra mat and then tile but obviously that's overkill and no-one will pay the overkill price. What do everyone else consider a reasonable joisted subfloor buildup for compromise between piece of mind and cost?
Thanks in advance
Ross
New to this Forum. Got 10 years experience of building, do quite a few bathrooms and would like to know others peoples opinions on subfloors for tiling.
My question is regarding sub floor buildup. If a wooden joisted floor has little deflection and is covered with solid timber boards, I will usually put plenty of screws through boards into joists, cover over with ply screwed in grid formation into boards (as little as 4mm thick), glue ditra over the ply and then tile with flexi adhesive.
In a perfect world, I'd love to take up the entire floor back to joists and put down 18mm ply, counter board it with 6mm ply, glue ditra mat and then tile but obviously that's overkill and no-one will pay the overkill price. What do everyone else consider a reasonable joisted subfloor buildup for compromise between piece of mind and cost?
Thanks in advance
Ross