F l o o r f l e x

[High Peak Tiling]

Hi guys, A good mate (builder) of mine popped round to see me the other day with a 'fantastic' product I should use..

Floor flex, like Latex but to be laid straight onto floor boards.. be it 1inch gaps etc or 2-3mm. Self levelling and ready to be tiled once set.

have you heard of it?

The product is designed to cut out overboarding & hardi boards.
I would like to add, this is not Bal fastflex.

 

[White Room]

Your be hard pushed with 1inch gaps in the boards....

 

[mattle40]

Your be hard pushed with 1inch gaps in the boards....

Certainly use a lot

 

[High Peak Tiling]

he dropped me a half used bag for me to look at. if gaps are that wide then to mix it thicker

 

[Andy Tiler]

he dropped me a half used bag for me to look at. if gaps are that wide then to mix it thicker

you takin the mik..

 

[High Peak Tiling]

*Mick :smilewinkgrin:

Nope, no joke

 

[mattle40]

Thick enough to bridge an inch gap but self levels.. ?

 

[High Peak Tiling]

ill get the details of it exactly. but he explained this too me & mentioned to mix it a little thicker..

 

[DHTiling]

Oh ffs

 

[Martyn Leeds]

Sounds great. Does it go on walls too?

 

[High Peak Tiling]

:lol:

 

[Andy Tiler]

ill get the details of it exactly. but he explained this too me & mentioned to mix it a little thicker..

Give it a try and let us know how u get on with the gaps??!!

 

[High Peak Tiling]

im not using it, I thought id drop it to some of you comics for a royal laugh!

 

[White Room]

I'm sure there's some tilers on here who will be falling over themselves for a bag of that....

 

[Protilers]

Oh ffs

here Dave......Do you fancy a pint..........hehhehehheheeee

 

[Protilers]

Self leveling..........should be called "smoothing compound!"....and if you have gaps larger than 1mm........it will leak like a sieve......TRUST ME!

you can knock it up so stiff and plug holes (i Have done that)....but forget 1"....or as us young lot say 25.4mm.......hehehhehehhehhe

Lee

 

[High Peak Tiling]

The stuff fills gaps upto 12mm, a bottle of primer also comes with it which you lather the surface you will be levelling.

 

[High Peak Tiling]

If i remember correctly, its called level flex

 

[gamma38]

I bought a bag of skyhooks the other day they are awesome i use them for everything. :lol:

 

[steve187]

another builder knows it all!

 

[High Peak Tiling]

another builder knows it all!

Im guessing he's wrong about this stuff being able to eliminate the use of ply boards & Hardi boards!

 

[Perry]

some of you older guys might remember floorflex ? think that was its name it was made by bal before fast flex came out. not to fill the gaps but you done just that leveled the floor with it 3-4 mm thick about that i think, then tiled over it using a flexable cement based adhesive

 

[bugs183]

Yea i remember it was very much like Fast Flex, it was two part and it came in a cardboard box from what i remember.
We used it to cover wooden floors, then as you say trowelled adhesive into it.
We discovered Ditra not long after that, when it was the old ribbed variety.
It did seem to work, never had to go back to a job after using it.
Wouldn't go back to that though, minimum i tile on now is ditra.

 

[High Peak Tiling]

Ditra being cement boards?

 

[bugs183]

No matey Ditra is an uncoupling membrane:

Schlüter-DITRA 25 - Schlüter-Systems

It's been around over 20 years and is great stuff. Most guys here will never tile direct to wood and prefer to use an uncoupling membrane to seperate the wood from the tiles. But lately especially with the use of electric underfloor heating the guys are using cement boards or thermal boards such as Marmox.
It is no substitute for a badly preped wood floor, holes or bounce etc.
It's also used to uncouple tiles from underfloor heated screeds.