tiling over chipboard floating floor! help needed

[CJ]

Just walked away from another floating floor.

when I first went to look at the job, the whole area had laminate down, on top of the usual green underlay fibre boards. Customer assured me the substrate was screed.

Big job as well (75m) although only??? About 20-25m was the floater.......but big enough to actually see the floor flexing when the dog walked across it. (Now laminate/under felt removed)

Tiles where special order only.......and have just had a phone call from supplier to say that there is a "restocking charge" of 20% which is going to cost the customer around £500 to send back.

whilst work isn't plentiful at the moment........my head STILL says no. Even with an extra £500 to overboard with hardi and 2 part addy.......which I'm not even sure they would accept (even though I still may walk)

This evenings phone call is going to be interesting??

 

[Qwerty]

Good luck!

 

[Andy Allen]

What tiles are they using?

 

[CJ]

What tiles are they using?

450 Porcelain.

 

[Andy Allen]

I've tiled a few.....only small cloakrooms though, used bal single part fast flex, bal grout with gt1 admix......don't know about 25m2 though.....different ball game...

 

[CJ]

I've tiled a few.....only small cloakrooms though, used bal single part fast flex, bal grout with gt1 admix......don't know about 25m2 though.....different ball game...

Same here......couple of very small floaters, nothing on this size.

 

[TJ Smiler]

I tiled a 19ft hallway for a Brazilian couple about five years ago, that was T&G green chipboard, i used Bal Fastflex and have not heard that there are any problems. You could see the floor move as you walked across it (before tiles went down) i decided to give it a go (everything was explained to the customer before you all start slaughtering me) on the basis that the area being tiled was not very wide, standard sort of hallway about 4-5ft so i only really had to worry about movement across the length of the floor. Don't know about your 25m2 longer and wider area but i can tell you that after tiling with fastflex you could see the slightest movement of the tiles as you walked on it, used bal wide joint grout mixed 1/1 with GT1 and like i say i have herd nothing from the customer. Not for one second suggesting you should get on with it, just wanted to tell my story rrr: but that fastflex is pretty amazing stuf.

 

[White Room]

So's the price :yikes:

 

[TJ Smiler]

So's the price :yikes:

Yeah you aint wrong there mate, 45 notes a pop....... Hardly ever use it now. Ardex 7001 or Webber's 2part are much better value now

 

[White Room]

Yeah you aint wrong there mate, 45 notes a pop....... Hardly ever use it now. Ardex 7001 or Webber's 2part are much better value now

I was on a job and the guy who lived there bought a bag for £70 notes....

 

[TJ Smiler]

I was on a job and the guy who lived there bought a bag for £70 notes....

Another bargain from Topps i'm guessing :lol:

 

[Stef]

Another bargain from Topps i'm guessing :lol:

I remember years ago Topps tried to charge me £56 for a bag of rapid set flex!!

 

[CJ]

Good stuff......but as mentioned.....bloody dear.

http://www.toppstiles.co.uk/search_results.asp?s=bal fastflex&n=1

Retail that is.



Trade price

http://www.toppstiles.co.uk/trade/tprod8807/section172/Bal-Single-Part-Fastflex-Grey-125Kg.html

 

[Andy Allen]

I've no doubt fast flex will stick to the floor and the gt1 will not crack, as I've said I done it to small floaters, but its also worth thinking about weather the tiles will hold out and not crack if the floor is deflecting a lot..

at the end of the day its a chance only you can decide if its worth taking..

or just do it and change you phone number... (joke)

 

[CJ]

Tiling job shelved..........they are going to try and swap the tiles with engineered oak flooring.

They asked me if I can do it??
Done laminate, but not wood.........but I fancy having a go??

oh poo......wot am I going to drop myself into next.