Alternative to Hardiback

[Protiler999]

Anyone has tried successfully alternative products to Hardiback and plywood, say one cannot go up 12mm on top of chipboard but needs to lay ceramic tiles onto chipboard, any one know if another good product that could possibly used and not as thick as 12mm?

 

[Martyn Leeds]

6mm Hardi is not as thick as 12mm Hardi
I'd be using that if floor is good

 

[Chalker]

Have just used pcs insulation boards ( other makes are available) onto chipboard floor. About the same cost per sheet but the time saved is enormous, plus I didn't have to dress up like there was a biological disaster.
have to say the floor was deflection free.
i used 10 mm.

 

[Protiler999]

Thanks for the info!

 

[Perfect Tiling]

Why do you mention 12mm ply...the BS is 15mm minimum! You can always do what a lot of tilers are doing....use either 6mm ply or nothing at all!!! Neither will work very well and you will need to go back and repair it or just walk away. Save the agro and use 6mm hardiebacker...it does what it says! End of.

 

[beanz]

There's always 6mm No More Ply too... Not sure if there's a huge difference between it and Hardie though!?! All I can remember (used it ages ago), was that it was quite easy to score n snap. Only used 12mm Hardie, and had to cut that with a saw, as I couldn't get it to snap!?!

 

[Ian]

I'm not a fan of no more ply, it's too shiny which in my mind doesn't make the bond as good, and brittle, which makes it split when screwing near the edges. Just my opinion but, hardiebacker is the only board I like and trust out of the ones I've tried.

 

[Mr Tiler]

I'm not a fan of no more ply, it's too shiny which in my mind doesn't make the bond as good, and brittle, which makes it split when screwing near the edges. Just my opinion but, hardiebacker is the only board I like and trust out of the ones I've tried.

so far ive only used hardi 6mm and that was a bit hard to get each screw going even got a warwound on the thumb lol. but seems the most ideal and the centres were already there for me. I didn't find it hard to cut and snap... but I havnt tried the 12mm yet! lol

 

[beanz]

I'm not a fan of no more ply, it's too shiny which in my mind doesn't make the bond as good, and brittle, which makes it split when screwing near the edges. Just my opinion but, hardiebacker is the only board I like and trust out of the ones I've tried.

Yeah I know what your saying about screwing near the edges, but I found the 12mm Hardie the same until I started countersinking.. The countersink didn't last too long either lol! I didn't get any comeback with the No More Ply, but they were only 12x10 ceramics, so no weight to speak of...
too many health concerns with the Hardie for my liking...

 

[Stef]

Countersinking??
What screws were you using to fix the Hardie?
I've never countersunk screws into Hardie.

 

[beanz]

Just turbo golds.. But now I think about it, I was screwing to that crap Ali stud work, which was actually my reason for countersinking... It wasn't for the cracked corner, although that did happen, and could've been more about being too close to the edge.. Funny how you can remember something completely differently, then something else triggers a more accurate memory!?!?!