how flat are your floors

[Perry]

Dave's set me thinking how many of you lay your floors with a level and how many would just lay it flat if it wasn't level ??

 

[DHTiling]

I check all levels on a floor before commencing with the tiling...
If it is reasonbly level then i will lay the floor level but sometimes a floor can be out of level by quiet a bit so as long as it is flat then it will be ok...
SLC helps a long way to getting a floor flat for tiling....

It also depends on what you are putting down..i.e. ceramics etc or rough cut naturals...rough stone doesn't need as good a floor as say honed stone and so on....

 

[IvegotsTILE]

I usually just do it flat.I tell the customer I can get it level if they want but some things like kitchen units don't look right if they were put on the original floor which could be quite out.

Just finished working on a bathroom showroom and the few floors I did I laid as flat as possible,I didn't know whether to bring a trowel or a surfboard they were that out.Some of the other guys used a level and got it totally flat but when it came to meeting the walkways there was a step in some places of at least an inch which looked awful and was a major tripping hazard,they might have to come back up.

 

[DHTiling]

At last you finish the showroom eh!!

Have you took some pics for us.....??

 

[Fred]

I did a floor before the holidays for a builder, who knew there were several kinks in the floor, but refused to level it out. The end result spoke for itself!

 

[grumpygrouter]

Lots of old houses have floors that are flat but not level. Don't see the point in trying to level out an already flat floor, could make the rest of the floors around it look peculiar if you didn't level everything else up.

I would try to flatten a floor with SLC though to make the tiling better.

Grumpy