Tiling wooden bathroom floor

[Michaeli]

Hi all

Im new to tiling (this is my 1st go at it) and im doing my bathroom floor and walls.

Now my floor is a solid chipboard floor (about 15mm thick)

So my first question is what is the best way to tile this type of floor.

At the moment we have bathroom grade lamate floor down which is about 6-8mm thick. now this joins nicely with the carpet in the hallway. So i dont want to have to put 18mm wsb ply down then all the tiles etc as it would put my bathroom floor about 20mm bigger than my hallway.

Is there a super flexable addesive that i can use straight on to chipboard flooring?

Hopfuly you guys can help

Many thanks
Michael

 

[Ian]

Don't risk going straight onto the chip board mate, I use toppfix single part flexible to stick the backers down, it's not bad stuff for the money. Don't use it for tiling with though, BAL, Mapei or similar. There is a tile giant in west bridgeford if you like using mapei stuff, or Topps do BAL

 

[brian c]

Don't use it for tiling with though..............why not?

 

[Ian]

Don't use it for tiling with though..............why not?

Don't know really! Is my honest answer! I use the butech one flex addy from Porcelanosa, but it's slow set and if I need to do a floor in a day obviously the backers need to set quick. That's it really, don't like using rapidest unless it's necessary, limestone etc

Edit. Sorry just read that again, wasn't advising not to use it for tiling with, just that I don't.

 

[brian c]

no probs Brian,i use it and find it goes off pretty quick especially in summer months..no hassle m8.