First time post and advice please.

[JohnsonL]

hi all,

I’m New to the forum and looking for some advice if anyone would be kind enough.

My background is from all types of flooring but over the last 5 years I’ve done tiling jobs for friends, family and customers but self taught working alongside other tilers. A lot of marking out and scribing techniques are same as flooring so found it quite easy with regards to that etc.

I completely understand all the types of subfloors/ requirments regarding moisture etc DPM/ and levelling/ smoothing / laitance removal /grinding as we do it daily for flooring.

Anyway I have a customer who has some 6mm 1ft square ceramics he wasnts fitted to his mobile home (static caravan)

The chipboard floor is solid but it’s still a wooden subfloor so has slight give of course.

What system would you guys use? Flexible adhesive combined with ditra Matt type system sufficient enough?

I suppose my worry is just they are only 6mm thick so want to use best system to ensure job is perfect for the customer.

Thank for any help in advance, I look forward to be more involved on the forum.

 

[LM]

Hello and welcome.
6mm ceramics aren’t a good choice of tile for a wooden substrate. Yes Ditra is the way to go and Schluter don’t recommend anything thinner than 6mm for Ditra.
You’re gonna have nothing but trouble I’d expect with these tiles in this situation and personally I wouldn’t fit them. Your customer would be better spending money on some standard porcelain tiles and fit them with Ditra, it would be cheaper in the long run.

 

[Flintstone]

6mm ceramics aren’t really flooring standard really let alone in this situation. As per lee, you could do with some porcelain tiles

 

[Dumbo]

Caravan . Lvt me thinks

 

[JohnsonL]

Yeah I was abit worried about them being 6mm.
It’s just because the customers bought all Of the stuff already.

When I went round to look at the job first thing in my head I thought was LVT would be better and I’m much quicker install to.

Might go back to him and get him to take the tiles back and change to porcelain or change him to LVT.

Thanks for the advice guys.

 

[GoneGuy]

I would deffo go for lvt,