F l o o r f l e x

[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.

 

[High Peak Tiling]

i see i see, i always use hardi boards for wet rooms etc and over board wooden dry areas with 18mm birch ply

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

Level flex by tile master is good stuff, but it will not fill 25mm gaps no way, you would be filling the basement up for months. 9mm ply is way to thin, you should sort out any deflection issues prior to overlaying with backerboard then level flex if needed to get the floor level.

 

[High Peak Tiling]

what I meant was with a wooden floor too overboard for rigity. not to get rid of the deflection

 

[mattle40]

what I meant was with a wooden floor too overboard for rigity. not to get rid of the deflection

Are they not the same thing???

 

[High Peak Tiling]

general movement and deflection.. similar yes, overboarding with 18mm ply sorry Phil Hobson sorry