How best to Tile a room?

[mp3wizard]

yeh it's much better, I mean by the time I put another 5 bags down that's 13 bags in total, if that's not been enough to cover the area adequately, then I would of needed to buy an additional 5-10 bags anyway, so it's obviously more work but I guess it's not additional cost is it.

 

[Bill]

yeh it's much better, I mean by the time I put another 5 bags down that's 13 bags in total, if that's not been enough to cover the area adequately, then I would of needed to buy an additional 5-10 bags anyway, so it's obviously more work but I guess it's not additional cost is it.

but you should have read the earlier posts that told you to do it in one go so that the next batch of SLC would seamlessly bond with the last batch - now that you have dried SLC next to wet stuff, it will be 10 times harder to get right.

 

[mp3wizard]

yeah I saw a minimum of 8 bags on an earlier post, so I should have ordered more than I needed, maybe 15 bags but I thought that would of been enough, by the time I put tomorrows batch down that will be 3 different brands of compound, in hindsight yep I would of ordered more and all the same brand.

 

[mp3wizard]

I absolutely wanted to do it in one go, but the amount of bags weren't right

 

[Bill]

I absolutely wanted to do it in one go, but the amount of bags weren't right

This is why distance advice is wrong on this type of project. Over and out.

 

[mp3wizard]

ok cheers

 

[Flintstone]

I would check with whoever you get it from but It will most probably need priming again before levelling on top, you might have more luck with a slow set leveller

 

[widler]

These are what I use to self level floors ,as you can see they are for skimming, but I find the 4ft speed skim with a pole makes them ideal for slc .
It's awful stuff to try and get level over matting , the tape it's stuck down with is usually crap and it cones away and can float to the top.
I'd buy a good few more bags, I'd prime the slc and go over the lot .
Make it as wet as you can , the most amount of water, most take around 5l ish, or 25kg bags more .

 

[mp3wizard]

thanks, so i'm ok just to the last bit, let it dry then plan to go over it all again, when you say primer do you mean like pva glue? I primed underneath the boards with a heat resistant primer, but it was a bit pricey.

 

[Flintstone]

Not pva glue! You need acrylic primer, your local tile shop will have it. Diluted as per instructions