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BillyBBag

Looking at tiling the whole downstairs of my house, I'll be using

600x600x10 porcelain tile
Adhesive
Screed filled profix UFH trays
Self leveling screed
Epoxy 2 coat DPM

According to profix, you can tile straight onto the top of the trays, the screed only fills them flush with the top.
My question is, does anybody think I need one of these decoupling matts between the trays and the tiles?
 
S

Spare Tool

Am just on with a couple of wetrooms at the moment, putting ci mat down for my own piece of mind, however the builder has already tiled another two rooms straight onto polypipe boards and the heating has been on and off for months with no cracks or signs of failure, I've fixed porcelain straight on them a few times myself in the past with no problems, but also had an Lcut crack so it really is your decision, if you can afford to take the will it, won't it out of the equation then mat it..
 

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