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mattaylor21
Hi all!
I have been reading a lot of posts about avoiding tiling directly onto plywood.
Most of my work is bathroom fitting and I usually rip out all the floorboards and strengthen the floor joists and run a line of 3x2 between the joist where a joint in the plywood will be. Then I glue and screw 18mm best ply down to the joists at 300mm centres. I feel this gives a very solid floor which I then seal with acrylic primer and tile. This method also ensures there is no step into the room at the doorway. I have done loads of floors in this way and never had a problem! ( touch wood )
Have I been doing it wrong all these years? I'm just interested on everyone's thoughts of this way of doing a floor.
Most of my customers have electric UFH as well so I install that to the ply (or insulated boards if they want them) and then pour a layer of self levelling to cover the UFH before I tile it.
I have been reading a lot of posts about avoiding tiling directly onto plywood.
Most of my work is bathroom fitting and I usually rip out all the floorboards and strengthen the floor joists and run a line of 3x2 between the joist where a joint in the plywood will be. Then I glue and screw 18mm best ply down to the joists at 300mm centres. I feel this gives a very solid floor which I then seal with acrylic primer and tile. This method also ensures there is no step into the room at the doorway. I have done loads of floors in this way and never had a problem! ( touch wood )
Have I been doing it wrong all these years? I'm just interested on everyone's thoughts of this way of doing a floor.
Most of my customers have electric UFH as well so I install that to the ply (or insulated boards if they want them) and then pour a layer of self levelling to cover the UFH before I tile it.