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danny-p
hi all
i have karndean fitted in my kitchen. been down 3 years. i had a leak from dishwasher and the ply under the karndean has blown so i claimed on my insurance and i now have money in hand to replace floor. i had a quote to replace the karndean for £1600 for 16 sq m. this entails removing ply and karndean, re-plying floor and relaying new karndean. i have also been looking at tiles. tiles (600x300) from wickes or b&q are around £300. plus fitting.
i have 2 options. simple. karndean for £1600 or tiling . i want to do the tiling myself for experience and to save money. problems arise after i start looking into the tiling aspect
1. ply and karndean down at moment are only 8mm thick. too thin to tile on???? even though the ply has blown, its still quite flat.
2. kitchen is a knockthrough from a really small kitchen into the back room so now i have a kitchen -diner. but they are 2 types of floor. concrete in one half and floorboards in the other. there is a slope where the concrete finishes and goes into the floorboards. at its worst point at the end of the kitchen its about 3/4" dropout over about 2 metres. i realise i have to build this up to the concrete level. this frightens me as im a novice!!!! lol.
3. all the retrimming of door casings, doors and kickerboards under the units which have led lights in them.
my tool cabinet is only moderate. power tools i have drill, sander and jigsaw.
is it worth paying a pro tiler to do the job. is it beyond a complete novice like myself/
really really appreciate the comments and also any tilers in the merseyside area looking to do it are more than welcome to pm me for a meetup to do the job
dan
i have karndean fitted in my kitchen. been down 3 years. i had a leak from dishwasher and the ply under the karndean has blown so i claimed on my insurance and i now have money in hand to replace floor. i had a quote to replace the karndean for £1600 for 16 sq m. this entails removing ply and karndean, re-plying floor and relaying new karndean. i have also been looking at tiles. tiles (600x300) from wickes or b&q are around £300. plus fitting.
i have 2 options. simple. karndean for £1600 or tiling . i want to do the tiling myself for experience and to save money. problems arise after i start looking into the tiling aspect
1. ply and karndean down at moment are only 8mm thick. too thin to tile on???? even though the ply has blown, its still quite flat.
2. kitchen is a knockthrough from a really small kitchen into the back room so now i have a kitchen -diner. but they are 2 types of floor. concrete in one half and floorboards in the other. there is a slope where the concrete finishes and goes into the floorboards. at its worst point at the end of the kitchen its about 3/4" dropout over about 2 metres. i realise i have to build this up to the concrete level. this frightens me as im a novice!!!! lol.
3. all the retrimming of door casings, doors and kickerboards under the units which have led lights in them.
my tool cabinet is only moderate. power tools i have drill, sander and jigsaw.
is it worth paying a pro tiler to do the job. is it beyond a complete novice like myself/
really really appreciate the comments and also any tilers in the merseyside area looking to do it are more than welcome to pm me for a meetup to do the job
dan