Suspended Timber Floor Tile Prep Page: 4

[acaciaguy]

I think and I’m hoping they mean pipes for rads etc. Rather than actual ufc

 

[Deyna]

Wait a minute. Where do you have Wet UFH?

Dont worry, adjacent room! Its just the pipes run under this room and over the sleeper wall near the opening.

 

[acaciaguy]

Ok.

 

[Deyna]

All it means is that it limits where I can put joists on that section of the sleeper as the pipes are in the way, but at 12" OC its fine.

 

[Waluigi]

It does have an impact if you are overboarding the ply and need to build up the height of joining floors. For example, a Foam tile backer board would be unsuitable and instead a cement board like Hardiebacker would be OK on top of wet UFH

 

[acaciaguy]

Are you tiling the wet ufc area too as part of the same tiling

 

[Deyna]

It does have an impact if you are overboarding the ply and need to build up the height of joining floors. For example, a Foam tile backer board would be unsuitable and instead a cement board like Hardiebacker would be OK on top of wet UFH

Ofc, its a problem for the other room. Thats not being tiled until the extension is built. Either way the ply will need another layer of something so I'll end up with a height difference. Can't lower this floor without rebuilding the sleepers.

 

[Andy Rhodes]

Dense concrete blocks would work, you could place them under every second beam from the middle beam on the picture but you would have to put a piece of slate under the block or DPM to stop damp, may also cheaper & quicker

 

[Deyna]

Eventually yes. I mentioned it in the OP these rooms will be joined so there will be a substrate difference and will need to be factored in. Thankfully the tiles will run with the join so at most its one tile that will straddle the two floors although I suppose you could just end of a full tile at the edges.

 

[acaciaguy]

Ofc, its a problem for the other room. Thats not being tiled until the extension is built. Either way the ply will need another layer of something so I'll end up with a height difference. Can't lower this floor without rebuilding the sleepers.

Or take ply up and put a thicker cement / structural board down. Double up joists and maybe even block and you should be sound as a pound