wet room

UK Tiling Forum; Established 2006

Welcome to the UK Tiling Forum by TilersForums.com, built in 2006 by Tilers, run by Tilers.

View all of the UK tiling forum threads, questions and discussions here.

Tilers Forums Official Sponsors

T

topgun

HI TO ALL,am new to the forum,i have read a view somewhere,that it is not neccesary to tank the whole wet room,only the area likely to get wet,does anyone have an opinion?Which system is easyest for undertile heating,only i have used the impy system,& was advised to put a self levelling screed over the membrane which adds to the quite high cost of the system to isolate the heating wires from softening the membrane,any thoughts? Regards topgun.
 
Hi topgun mate...welcome to the forums...
I use schluters ditra and kerdi in wetrooms and they have no probs with the heating mats......
 
HI TO ALL,am new to the forum,i have read a view somewhere,that it is not neccesary to tank the whole wet room,only the area likely to get wet,does anyone have an opinion?Which system is easyest for undertile heating,only i have used the impy system,& was advised to put a self levelling screed over the membrane which adds to the quite high cost of the system to isolate the heating wires from softening the membrane,any thoughts? Regards topgun.


we also use the impey system, we use a lower watt (100 watt) under tile heating, we do not screed the floor just tile over the undertile heating on the membrane (juse make sure you do not damage the wire), we tank the walls in the shower area only and membrane the full floor, we did 5 wetrooms (4 impey & 1 wedi) last year and haven't had any problems
 
Screeding/skimming over the top of UFH isn't necessary, it just helps give protection to the cabling. Not nice to discover after having done a nice job of laying your tiles and grout that you have caught a cable with the trowel and you have to lift it all up again!

Grumpy
 
hi,first time in myself.I spoke to impey technical dept on last job about tanking walls in shower area,tiles were 400 x 200 they said not to as tiles and adhesive would be too heavy for membrane.they said no need to go any higher than 75mm up walls.
 
when tanking a shower area in a wet room you do not use the floor membrane you use a paint on tanking
 
when tanking a shower area in a wet room you do not use the floor membrane you use a paint on tanking


Different systems use different methods, follow instructions.
Tilesafe show the tanking of walls with membrane, i think Kerdi do too.
 

Advertisement

Thread Information

Title
wet room
Prefix
N/A
Forum
UK Tiling Forum
Start date
Last reply date
Replies
10

Thread Tags

Advertisement

UK Tiling Forum

Thread statistics

Created
topgun,
Last reply from
DHTiling,
Replies
10
Views
5,540

Thread statistics

Created
topgun,
Last reply from
DHTiling,
Replies
10
Views
5,540

Weekly Email Digest

Back