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I have a tiler coming in on Thursday to tile a bathroom floor and wall area around the bath, which i have prepared and would appreciate some guidance on materials.
The floor is T&G on joists, overlayed with ply and then further overlayed with the new Marmox acoustic tile backer boards which are fixed using a special bead of flexible acoustic adhesive. I have then fitted electric UFH and covered with tile master flexible SLC.
The SLC went down a week ago and I have noticed that there are surface hairline cracks running across the room in quite a few areas. However the floor feels perfectly solid and is not breaking up in anyway. Is this normal?
The walls around the bath have been boarded with 12.5mm Marmox tile backer board and tanked with Ditra.
The floor tiles are Porcelonosa 44x66x10 and the wall tiles are 33x100x9 porcelain.
I will be providing materials for the tiler and was set on Dunlop fast set flex but have not seen many good reviews on the forum for Dunlop products so should i look at something else?
For the walls, i was going to provide the same SPF as the floors but my tiler said "buy 2 x tubs" which understandably has put doubt in my mind that he is not up to the job, as with these size tiles i'm sure it would never set!
The bath is a whirlpool and doubles up as a shower so i need to use a good quality grout to prevent water ingress. Do i need to use an epoxy type grout?
I have a tiler coming in on Thursday to tile a bathroom floor and wall area around the bath, which i have prepared and would appreciate some guidance on materials.
The floor is T&G on joists, overlayed with ply and then further overlayed with the new Marmox acoustic tile backer boards which are fixed using a special bead of flexible acoustic adhesive. I have then fitted electric UFH and covered with tile master flexible SLC.
The SLC went down a week ago and I have noticed that there are surface hairline cracks running across the room in quite a few areas. However the floor feels perfectly solid and is not breaking up in anyway. Is this normal?
The walls around the bath have been boarded with 12.5mm Marmox tile backer board and tanked with Ditra.
The floor tiles are Porcelonosa 44x66x10 and the wall tiles are 33x100x9 porcelain.
I will be providing materials for the tiler and was set on Dunlop fast set flex but have not seen many good reviews on the forum for Dunlop products so should i look at something else?
For the walls, i was going to provide the same SPF as the floors but my tiler said "buy 2 x tubs" which understandably has put doubt in my mind that he is not up to the job, as with these size tiles i'm sure it would never set!
The bath is a whirlpool and doubles up as a shower so i need to use a good quality grout to prevent water ingress. Do i need to use an epoxy type grout?