Floating Floor Advice

[peckers]

Peckers i'm sure you haven't offended anyone, the whole point of the forum is to share experiences and advice. If everyone agreed there wouldn't be much point!

I have been to see the customer this evening, the floor has quiet a lot of deflection in it so I told them it would be too much of a risk to tile direct to the floor. They are adament that they want a polished porcelain floor as their neighbours have a tiled kitchen.

What would the process be to screed the floor? The customer is happy to lift the existing floor, I have only ever used latex screeds to patch/level floors by 3-5mm so i'm not sure how I would go about the process. Also if a screed was layed would I then be able to use an SPF onto the floor after priming?

cjbombero

If you have no experience in screeding then i would advize that you get a screeder to do this for you! I would put down dpm and lap this up the walls the excess can be cut off after screeded.
I would also advize that there are expansion joints put in between the new screed and the rest of the floating floors doorways etc.and around the perimeter of the room!
You will have to wait for the screed to dry out before you tile onto it 4-6 weeks depends how quickly it dries! when dry prime it with an acrylic primer prior to tiling!

 

[DHTiling]

Timber floating floors should be banned...:smilewinkgrin:.....


Peckers.!!...good advice above mate..

 

[cjbombero]

Yeah thanks for the advice, i'm starting to feel a bit out of my depth here. I know that they have already had a couple of quotes from other tilers who didn't even seem bothered about the floating floor! Probably going to give the customer all the advice I can and then step out of the way, you never know she might want a bathroom doing in a years time!

Certainly an interesting thread from my point of view, I have learnt a lot more about floating floors and the pitfalls involved.

Thanks to all that contributed

cjbombero

 

[kilty55]

wouls a stronger screed like fibreplan be better if you were going to take peckers advice on this mate?

 

[Colour Republic]

Yeah thanks for the advice, i'm starting to feel a bit out of my depth here. I know that they have already had a couple of quotes from other tilers who didn't even seem bothered about the floating floor! Probably going to give the customer all the advice I can and then step out of the way, you never know she might want a bathroom doing in a years time!

Certainly an interesting thread from my point of view, I have learnt a lot more about floating floors and the pitfalls involved.

Thanks to all that contributed

cjbombero

This is a perfect time to learn! If you don't try it you will never know how to do it. I would price it up with the help of a screeder, explain to the customer that it is a fairly specialist area and you need to get an outside contractor to screed the floor.

If the customer respects your advice and doesn't mind the added cost to insure a good job then make sure you are on site when it goes in, even offer to labour for the screeder for free. This way you'll know if it is something you feel comfortable doing in the future on your own. As you say MK is a new town with lots of floating floors, so if that's your area, are you not better to add this to your list of services?

If they decide that the added cost is too much and they want to take a gamble then no love lost but at least you tried.

Good luck

Edit: how thick is this floor anyway? do you know?

 

[marc1106]

only done 1 floating floor(insurace work ) and i had to lay Dow 200x insulation (more dense than celotex or jabolite) then lay 25mm Wisa T&G boards over that, then used flexi addy and grout all specced by the client and the loss adjuster who done a ton of research, as this was the 3rd floor to go in after their flood, first 2 where just lashups, that was 2 years ago and ive not had a comback YET:sick:! but as a rule i go for the rip it up and screed the bugger personally!