tiling onto flexible wood floor. Advice please!

[Droopy]

Re: 1st Job tiling onto flexible wood floor. Advice please!

you stick it down with adhesive and screw it then tile on top the ply that is not the customer lol

Honestly, can you put that in a way that makes sense?:huh2:

 

[Perry]

Re: 1st Job tiling onto flexible wood floor. Advice please!

no james i dont think i can mate sorry

 

[Droopy]

Re: 1st Job tiling onto flexible wood floor. Advice please!

no james i dont think i can mate sorry

No problem.
You're not related to Ted Rogers are you?
I was never good at guessing the clues on 3-2-1.
I'd always end up with the bin.

 

[GazTech]

Re: 1st Job tiling onto flexible wood floor. Advice please!

Honestly, can you put that in a way that makes sense?:huh2:

What dad means is, adhere the 12mm plywood to the floor, then fix with screws, then tile with SPF.....rather than 18mm ply just screwed down...I think..

 

[Droopy]

Re: 1st Job tiling onto flexible wood floor. Advice please!

What dad means is, adhere the 12mm plywood to the floor, then fix with screws, then tile with SPF.....rather than 18mm ply just screwed down...I think..

 

[Dave Ramsden]

Re: 1st Job tiling onto flexible wood floor. Advice please!

My approach would be to re-lay 9mm ply screwed every 6"sq with a minnimum of 1"8 pozi screws.

Apply a coat of PVA primer and fix tiles using butech tile to wood (thats my favourite at the moment) or a SPF adhesive with a 9mm notched trowel. I also prefer to grout porcelain with butech floor grout as it spreads so uch easier over much larger areas.

Hope this is of some help

 

[White Room]

Re: 1st Job tiling onto flexible wood floor. Advice please!

I'm surprised on the pva, Would'nt touch with a barge pole

 

[Dave Ramsden]

Re: 1st Job tiling onto flexible wood floor. Advice please!

I'm surprised on the pva, Would'nt touch with a barge pole

Really? I was always told to PVA anything ply wood...:huh2:

 

[GazTech]

Re: 1st Job tiling onto flexible wood floor. Advice please!

My approach would be to re-lay 9mm ply screwed every 6"sq with a minnimum of 1"8 pozi screws.

Apply a coat of PVA primer and fix tiles using butech tile to wood (thats my favourite at the moment) or a SPF adhesive with a 9mm notched trowel. I also prefer to grout porcelain with butech floor grout as it spreads so uch easier over much larger areas.

Hope this is of some help

This is not recommended Dave....

 

[Dave Ramsden]

Re: 1st Job tiling onto flexible wood floor. Advice please!

This is not recommended Dave....

Explain?!

 

[GazTech]

Re: 1st Job tiling onto flexible wood floor. Advice please!

Really? I was always told to PVA anything ply wood...:huh2:

http://www.tilersforums.com/tile-ad...rsus-primers.html?highlight=pva+versus+primer

 

[Dave Ramsden]

Re: 1st Job tiling onto flexible wood floor. Advice please!

http://www.tilersforums.com/tile-ad...rsus-primers.html?highlight=pva+versus+primer

Wow!!

My apologies then and I shall change my ways.

I suppose what yor told when an apprentice sicks...

 

[les]

Re: 1st Job tiling onto flexible wood floor. Advice please!

As an amateur/part timer I wish I had read this thread before doing my last tiling job. I was asked to fit a bathroom for someone with a very disruptive and destructive 9 year old autistic boy. The house is the worst construction job I have ever seen, a 60's effort with straw panel internal walls and rubbish build standards. I cleaned up the old floor and laid a single sheet of best quality 18mm ply. This was screwed to the floor boards. I had left the tiling to a mate of mine, a DIY/ builder/ bricklayer with very high standards of his own. It was tiled with ceramic tiles using, i think ordinary ready mix adhesive and powdered grout. It looked and felt fine.
Yesterday I had to go back to cover it with heavy duty vinyl and seal the edges with Silicon. In six months the tiles had cracked and partly lifted. The lad jumps up and down a lot and also thrown a huge amount of water on to the floor, which had come through the ceiling, presumably round the edges of the ply.
I suspect that under normal conditions it would be fine. Darren did his brothers bathroom by the same method and it is all ok, but for extreme conditions it was a disaster. I don't know if screwing through to the joists would have helped, but the adhesive was a definite mistake in this case. I rather think it needed 36mm of ply, a continuous bed of flexible adhesive and flexible grout, or as I wanted to do, 18mm of ply and no tiles but thick vinyl in the first place

 

[Gazzer]

Les, this has nothing to do with the child. Its simply down to wrong work methods.

 

[afright]

I've heard of workman blaming there tools but blaming a poor kid get real ,ready mixed adhesive springs to mind.