Tiling Onto A Floating Concrete Floor

[mine123]

I would like to have my kitchen and bathroom floor tiled, only thing I can't work out is if the substrate is suitable.
The floors are concrete, a layer of dpm sheeting, polystyrene sheets overlayed with chipboard which has been glued on. A section of the kitchen floor is spongy where there has been some water damage and the chipboard has degraded.

Whilst getting a quote from a plumber to have the bathroom renovated he said the tiling onto the above would be fine using Ditra matting, but another company suggested against it saying there would still be movement.

So my questions are how do I fix the damaged areas and can the floors be tiled?

Thanks,

 

[mine123]

I would like to have my kitchen and bathroom floor tiled, only thing I can't work out is if the substrate is suitable.
The floors are concrete, a layer of dpm sheeting, polystyrene sheets overlayed with chipboard which has been glued on. A section of the kitchen floor is spongy where there has been some water damage and the chipboard has degraded.

Whilst getting a quote from a plumber to have the bathroom renovated he said the tiling onto the above would be fine using Ditra matting, but another company suggested against it saying there would still be movement.

So my questions are how do I fix the damaged areas and can the floors be tiled?

Thanks,

Edit - Concrete floating floors.

 

[Ajax123]

nope. Unsuitable in my opinion.

 

[mine123]

nope. Unsuitable in my opinion.

Thanks for your reply, looks like its going to be laminate in the kitchen and vinyl in the bathrooms then.

 

[Dan]

Afraid so.

What's stopping you pulling it all up and redoing it a bit more stable?

 

[Just Rizzle]

Thanks for your reply, looks like its going to be laminate in the kitchen and vinyl in the bathrooms then.

if you want tile look in your kitchen and bathroom my solution would be to lay karndean looks as good if not better than tiles also it is highly flexible well suited to a bouncy floor

 

[mine123]

if you want tile look in your kitchen and bathroom my solution would be to lay karndean looks as good if not better than tiles also it is highly flexible well suited to a bouncy floor

Afraid so.

What's stopping you pulling it all up and redoing it a bit more stable?

Hi, not really an option as the kitchen has fitted units. Bathrooms not much better as the sanitary ware would be in the way.

 

[mine123]

if you want tile look in your kitchen and bathroom my solution would be to lay karndean looks as good if not better than tiles also it is highly flexible well suited to a bouncy floor

Thanks for the advice, I am now looking at Karndean/Amtico for the bathrooms and a uni-click laminate for the kitchen.

 

[Dan]

Well we cocked that one up for the tile industry

 

[mine123]

Well we cocked that one up for the tile industry

LOL, its not all bad...the bathroom walls will be tiled!!!

 

[Dan]

And you'd better bloody shout about it too.

Lots of pictures and maybe even get the tiled walls it's own Twitter account and stuff.

"Just making sure my owners are clean whilst not allowing water to get anywhere but this drain, another boring Monday"

 

[Just Rizzle]

Well we cocked that one up for the tile industry

its not a **** up dan its an add it incentive to explore different alternative products. most tilers would after a little training would be well capable of laying vinyl tiles. did a karndean course 8 yrs ago now its 40 percent of my business I look up on it as jam on top of my bread and butter