Best way to get tile level with adjacent floor

[cassas00]

I wanted to have a wood floor in my living area and a tiled hallway. The whole ground floor was self levelled so nice flat even floor.

The wood floor has gone down, its total height is 19mm (15mm floor, 4mm underlay).

My tile is 450x450mm and 10.5mm thick, how can I make up this 8.5mm difference?

• How thick can tile adhesive be? Can that be used to make up 8.5mm?
• I thought about 6mm insulation board but then worried that the two layers of tile adhesive would make the tile too high?
• I've also heard of these uncoupling membranes, like ditra, that are like 3mm thick.

 

[macten]

Will you not be putting in a threshold strip between the wood and the tile?

 

[cassas00]

Will you not be putting in a threshold strip between the wood and the tile?

Yea I'm planning to have a threshold to cover the expansion gap, but sorry missed that I'll have skirting boards either end running from the wood floor to the tile, so ideally needs to be flat.

 

[macten]

Okay got ya.
I’d go with the decoup mat then. (There are cheaper versions than ditra eg dural.... And start tiling from the transition if it’s possible.

 

[Dave]

Just level it. 👍

 

[Steve6690]

8.5mm to make up. A 12mm trowel will give a 6mm adhesive bed approx, which leaves 2.5mm to find. If it's already been self-levelled and is nice and flat I'd use a thin decoupling mat