tiling over floor grade chipboard

[Mr Tiler]

yeh working for someone is the key beanz unfortunately that will never happen for me so the first few ears will have to be hit and miss until I learn :lol:

 

[beanz]

yeh working for someone is the key beanz unfortunately that will never happen for me so the first few ears will have to be hit and miss until I learn :lol:

why will it never happen!?!

 

[Mr Tiler]

because the tillers around her either don't earn any money as it is or don't have the work load to take someone on. ive tried mate lol

 

[ythan]

British Standards - I think it would be very useful to readers of this thread, if someone would quote the actual clauses from the BS, which give guidance on tiling over chipboard. I don't have copy of the BS to hand.

 

[Bradma9]

I Don't understand why you would ask for advice and not take it? There will be someone out there ie eBay or a tile shop that would happily take the SPF back if you swapped it with them for what is a more expensive product! Like he said the difference in price of addy now compared with the price of new; tiles,addy,gout and time to do it all again when they crack? I know what one I would do!

 

[Martyn Leeds]

For every 10 failures there's bound to be 1 or 2 lucky ones. In this case I would say yours was lucky. Fantastic, great. But that wouldn't convince any full-time tiler to alter the way they work. They would be a fool to cut corners and ignore all the advice and recommendations that are out there. We've all come across failed jobs, and don't want it to happen on any of our own jobs in the future. A DIY job, then anyone can do what they like I suppose.

But there's plenty of folk that have put trust in paying someone to do the job, and if a tradesperson was to have done your job, in the way it was done, and it did fail - I'm sure you would have been very happy to hear him say, "yeah I ignored all the BS recommendations and did what I like, thought we'd have some luck"

 

[Dougs Third Go]

For every 10 failures there's bound to be 1 or 2 lucky ones. In this case I would say yours was lucky. Fantastic, great. But that wouldn't convince any full-time tiler to alter the way they work. They would be a fool to cut corners and ignore all the advice and recommendations that are out there. We've all come across failed jobs, and don't want it to happen on any of our own jobs in the future. A DIY job, then anyone can do what they like I suppose.

But there's plenty of folk that have put trust in paying someone to do the job, and if a tradesperson was to have done your job, in the way it was done, and it did fail - I'm sure you would have been very happy to hear him say, "yeah I ignored all the BS recommendations and did what I like, thought we'd have some luck"

and that Martyn, is hitting the nail right on the head.

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

British Standards - I think it would be very useful to readers of this thread, if someone would quote the actual clauses from the BS, which give guidance on tiling over chipboard. I don't have copy of the BS to hand.

I think this thread is BS, some complete novice giving bad advice on what should be a tilers forum. Ythan you are so wrong in every way,
you are condoning tiling onto chipboard, you are sending all the wrong signals to anyone reading this forum thread. Your method is BS, and I would ask you not to post anymore bad advice.

I would like this thread to be closed, as we don't need your uniformed and arrogant imput. Can I ask you were you draw your expertise from, strike that I'm not interested. I am out.

 

[Dougs Third Go]

I think this thread is BS, some complete novice giving bad advice on what should be a tilers forum. Ythan you are so wrong in every way,
you are condoning tiling onto chipboard, you are sending all the wrong signals to anyone reading this forum thread. Your method is BS, and I would ask you not to post anymore bad advice.

I would like this thread to be closed, as we don't need your uniformed and arrogant imput. Can I ask you were you draw your expertize from, strike that I'm not interested. I am out.

I think ythan is original poster Phil,

 

[Gazzer]

Well spotted Doug.....one and the same.

 

[Dan]

Just bumping some of the older popular (sometimes not so popular) threads. Probably wont be current discussion these days but I just need to do it. So just ignore the thread if it's not current for you.