Holiday Home/lodges Tiles Onto 9mm Ply

[dynamictiling]

I disagree... How can it move if it's glued and screwed down every 100mm?....I need hard cold evidence of the difference?

Disagree with me all you like. The bottom line is this, you tile a floor with 6mm ply (regardless of how many screws you use!)
You Have problems with it. Your customer wants the floor fixed, they make a claim against you. Your insurance company sends an auditor out to access the job. The outcome of the audit is that you have used 6mm ply, against British standards. Your insurance class that as 'bad workmanship'. Your claim gets rejected. You are now liable to fix the floor or pay for someone else to fix your floor. Disagree with me all you like but for your own wallet and reputation don't use 6mm ply. End of..

 

[J Sid]

why would you want to use any thickness of ply to cover floor boards or chipboard floor if they are both stable and solid when there are so may better products out the to prep these floors ready to take tiles?

 

[Martino]

So because the insurance company says we can't use certain ply then we don't....it won't be long and no ply is allowed with insurance company's.... Don't get me wrong I wouldn't use 6mm ply on my bathroom floor I would use hardi board....but its not about me or my methods.

I have personally never seen a failed floor on 6mm ply that has been fixed correctly....I have seen tiles straight onto chipboard and also floor boards lol

 

[dynamictiling]

It isn't insurance company's that set the rules, it is British standards. Personally I wouldn't touch a chipboard floor, even using sbr bonding the adhesive doesn't take to it.

Going directly onto floor boards is very risky, again due to movement. In older houses especially. I am also not keen going directly onto green chipboard found in new houses either.

 

[Bill]

It isn't insurance company's that set the rules, it is British standards. Personally I wouldn't touch a chipboard floor, even using sbr bonding the adhesive doesn't take to it.

Going directly onto floor boards is very risky, again due to movement. In older houses especially. I am also not keen going directly onto green chipboard found in new houses either.

Actually, British Standards don't set the rules. The insurance companies set their own - they use a trade industry as a guidance.

Before matting, we used to tile onto floorboards with a specialist adhesive - it can be done it is just that technology has moved on so things can be fixed quicker and unfortunately, with less skill.

That is probably the reason why all tiles were small compared to what we use today.

 

[Andy Allen]

So If the floor boards or chipboard are solid there is no difference between 6mm or 18mm ply. If the 6 is glued and screwed every 100?

If the subfloor is solid then just overboard with 6mm cement boards or insulation boards....why would you use 6mm ply? Apart from trying to save a few quid...you ever cut a sheet of 6mm ply and seen how easy the layers come apart .

 

[John Benton]

Anybody still got wood wheels on their car?

 

[Bill]

Anybody still got wood wheels on their car?

Not on my car but I have on my Surrey....