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Andrew F
Morning all,
I'm at a bit of a crossroads tiling my upstairs bathroom floor:
I've taken up 2/3rds of the tiles already there and they're leaving a lot of adhesive behind on the 12mm ply they were laid on. So - once I've finished with the old tiles - I would prefer to take the ply up as well and start completely from scratch. I believe the ply is screwed into floorboards underneath. The room is about 2.3m square.
I'm wondering what my options are for what to put down, working up from the floorboards, to make the surface to tile on. I've read around the forum boards and there's mention of 6mm and 12mm ply and Hardibacker sheets, too (which I recall seeing in Topps Tiles when we got the stuff we're using).
In case it makes any difference, the tiles I'm using are Zamora Brown 30x30 for the floor and at the same time we got those we also got Bal single part flex adhesive and Bal superflex w/j grout. The walls are being done too, but hopefully they won't require as much thought when I get to them...
BTW this isn't my day job! I'm just a weekend DIYer but have been well-pleased with tiling I've done in the past, but those projects required much less thought than this...
Any guidance appreciated! Thanks!!
Andrew
I'm at a bit of a crossroads tiling my upstairs bathroom floor:
I've taken up 2/3rds of the tiles already there and they're leaving a lot of adhesive behind on the 12mm ply they were laid on. So - once I've finished with the old tiles - I would prefer to take the ply up as well and start completely from scratch. I believe the ply is screwed into floorboards underneath. The room is about 2.3m square.
I'm wondering what my options are for what to put down, working up from the floorboards, to make the surface to tile on. I've read around the forum boards and there's mention of 6mm and 12mm ply and Hardibacker sheets, too (which I recall seeing in Topps Tiles when we got the stuff we're using).
In case it makes any difference, the tiles I'm using are Zamora Brown 30x30 for the floor and at the same time we got those we also got Bal single part flex adhesive and Bal superflex w/j grout. The walls are being done too, but hopefully they won't require as much thought when I get to them...
BTW this isn't my day job! I'm just a weekend DIYer but have been well-pleased with tiling I've done in the past, but those projects required much less thought than this...
Any guidance appreciated! Thanks!!
Andrew
