FIRST POST. FIRST "biggish" JOB. MARBLE.

[dilz000]

well guys, seeing as you've all been so helpfull i thought you would also like to see some progress!!

This is what was under the carpet and lino, it goes all the way through the house! took a full days work to get it up. Cleaned as much of the bitumen off as I could. Also had the toilet and sink taken out and took off all of the existing skirting boards.

I then primed the substrate and started installing the 6mm instillation boards from Uheat. I tried to lay them in such a way that there are as little joins as possible in the heavily trafficked areas. I ordered enough adhesive to lay this and the tiles, however I realise now I should have ordered gray to do this as the white adhesive is more expensive. :mad2:

Today is the day for UFH instillation. I also get to play with my new Fien Multimaster soon to nip off the bottom of the architraves.

Any criticism & comments welcome.

 

[White Room]

What is that covering the joints

 

[Ceramica Tiling]

I go for 2mm , a small joint sets you apart from the rest . Marble looks great i have it in my bathroom at home,it does scratch easy though

I always put a sluury coat on bitchum ,acyric primer/leveling compound gives a great key

 

[dilz000]

Its the adhesive, I rang Uheat as forgot to buy the joining tape and was told that the joining tape they supply is just scrim tape, he also said to work the adhesive into it, so thats what I did, although probably abit excessively!

 

[White Room]

It's just it looks pink from the photo

 

[dilz000]

maybe your monitor is abit out, its a creamy white :]

Finaly got the UFH in. I did it all once, got to the last stretch and discovered I had way to much cable left over, so I had to pull 3/4 of it back up and put it down again and ended up cutting most of it off the backing. TBH this was the first time i've used UFH so I suppose 12hours to install it isn't that bad...:hurray:

I've tested the cable too, I'm think I did it right anyways, the reading was 2.5ohms off what it says on the resistance readings pdf I downloaded from Uheat. I think i did the live and the earth wire? Is that right? I can recheck tomorrow.

anyways:

 

[dilz000]

Well another update, starting to look like a floor now, sorry for the crap pic, was late when i finished today. bit more to do yet, but 4 days of the day job first, then back to it!

Was cold outside today, and inside for that matter, the rapid set was taking forever to set so didn't get as much done as I had hoped. My little briccolina did me proud again though!!!

 

[Scott]

Its looking good fella

 

[dilz000]

I managed to convince them they needed brickbond. never done it before. TBH its all in the setting out, once that was sorted it wasnt to bad

 

[White Room]

Did you use a decoupling membrane on the ufh

 

[dilz000]

No whitebeam I have yet to use decoupline membrane. I really want to though!! The floor was in good condition, no cracks, no joins ect. The UFH is ontop of a 6mm Instillation board, which is fixed with keraquick, then ontop of the UFH latexplan SLC then keraquick again.

 

[dilz000]

Here you go guys thought you might want to see the results, just abit of boxing in todo in the bathroom now. Poor pictures as taken on my iPhone in the dark.

All feed back and criticism welcome!! Thankyou to everybody that contributed to helpong me.