Anyone used Nicobond Plastic Ply

[GazTech]

yep.....

 

[vistatiling]

Ok an update on Nicobond Plastic Ply,

I had a Domestic tiling work few weeks ago, had to remove existing carpet and lay the tiles on dining room floor 10 square metres.

After ripping the carpet, i saw the floor boards, and since the area had 5 doors which would need trimming if I layed the 18mm plywood, I suggested the customer to go for a revolutionary Plastic Ply which is only 2mm thick, so eliminates the need to trim the doors...

A bit of a breakdown:

To lay the plywood would have costed him: £420 inc materials.
Trim 5 doors: £100.00
which totals to: £520.00

And buying + fixing the plastic ply, costed him £196.00

Not bad?

Fingers crossed, the plastic ply will last as long as the Plywood would.

 

[grumpygrouter]

Hi Vistatiling, welcome to the forums. Thanks for the picture. Will you be keeping in touch with your customer to see how his floor holds up and will you keep the forums updated?

 

[vistatiling]

Hi Vistatiling, welcome to the forums. Thanks for the picture. Will you be keeping in touch with your customer to see how his floor holds up and will you keep the forums updated?

This customer, does want to get some more tiling done by me in the future, so whenever it's gonna be, I will see the status of that job

So yes you can expect an update on this some time next year.

 

[Alberta Stone]

Mapei has a plastic lath which comes in a roll, 3 feet wide which you staple down where needed and use the same as the aforementioned plastic ply.
Basically it serves the same function as expanded metal lathe, only it's plastic.
Personally I will stick with ditra for plywood replacement.

 

[tfs]

perhaps worthwhile to keep floor height low but, taking cost into account it is deffo not cost effective and probably not as durable as good old plywood.

I reckon that over large areas it would also cost a hell of a lot more as you will loose adhesive in every little pocket in the sheets and then more if you need to over coat with a thin layer to notch 'and then' lol once again if you ever need to back butter the tiles.

I guess if your using 18mm ply then the plastic ply would be the choice based on cost lol

 

[DHTiling]

Mapei has a plastic lath which comes in a roll, 3 feet wide which you staple down where needed and use the same as the aforementioned plastic ply.
Basically it serves the same function as expanded metal lathe, only it's plastic.
Personally I will stick with ditra for plywood replacement.

Ditra doesn't replace plywood.......not for deflection purposes anyway..

 

[Alberta Stone]

Neither will plastic lathe.

 

[vistatiling]

perhaps worthwhile to keep floor height low but, taking cost into account it is deffo not cost effective and probably not as durable as good old plywood.

I reckon that over large areas it would also cost a hell of a lot more as you will loose adhesive in every little pocket in the sheets and then more if you need to over coat with a thin layer to notch 'and then' lol once again if you ever need to back butter the tiles.

I guess if your using 18mm ply then the plastic ply would be the choice based on cost lol

what a primitive thinking...

 

[tfs]

what a primitive thinking...

thats just my opinion based on watching the demo video and reading someones comment earlier that it retails at around £20ish a sqm.

Doesnt mean Im correct lol

 

[cam_low]

rakky do you work for pp? you have 1 post on this and other forums biggin up the product