What is your preferred method?

[Old Mod]

Ok..... anyone, everyone,.........why?
Please educate me, cos I’m obviously missing something.

After all, you must have your reasons, I’m interested in knowing them please.

 

[LM]

Tbf all of @Lakey suggestions would work just fine. For me it would be situation, budget and material availability dependant.

 

[Boggs]

I’m hiding, not getting into this one!!

 

[Waluigi]

Availability, less joints, tried and tested. No more ply 22mm might work just fine but in a Bathroom I’d still prefer that single sheet of ply or couple of sheets of ply and a single join then over boarded.

A joint every 500mm for me isn’t ideal with backer board IMO- In other words I don’t have the confidence in the product.

 

[Waluigi]

Maybe I don’t know enough about it.

When the conversation came up recently I went straight onto the no more ply website to have a look

The link to ‘view details’ of the board didn’t work then and it still doesn’t. Why should I attempt installing a product when the manufacturers can’t even display the information properly.

Boards - Boarding Products - http://sts-uk.com/boarding-products/boards

 

[Old Mod]

I’m not looking for a fight I promise. 😀

I appreciate there is more than one solution, I use them myself all the time.
I’m not always comfortable tho, and of course I know budget can play it’s inevitable part, but I do struggle to get my head around a perfect solution getting ditched in favour of not only inferior products being used and a single part system being ditched for a two part solution.
#yagitme! 😀😛

 

[Blunt Tool]

99 out of 100 times it’s an existing or old chipboard floor to start with and price dictates how I deal with it. The 1 time out of 100 I could have used tg cement board I thought it was obselete here until I was enlightened tonight! I saw the light, praise the board!

 

[Waluigi]

I’ll consider it for my next project but I doubt I’ll get further than the consideration. If it means I’ve got to travel somewhere quite far away to pick up 4 x £50 boards and 3 x £6 tubes of adhesive, I doubt I’ll do it.

If it’s in a local merchants and I weigh things up and it seems a viable option then I’ll go for it.

There must be a reason why it hasn’t taken off and I think I’ve just done my best to explain it.

 

[Old Mod]

Maybe I don’t know enough about it

I think one problem is that it’s viewed in the same way as their 6mm board, it’s nothing like it.

Firstly it’s structural.

Secondly it’s Tongue and grooved.

In perfect honesty, I’d go for GIFA board over No more ply, but is certainly go for the no more ply over everything else, if I had complete choice.
That’s all I’m really getting at.
Yes there are always extenuating circumstances for which ever course of action we take, but that notwithstanding, I’d still go for an inert structural board.

 

[Waluigi]

You’d Gifa GIFA Board? 😉

I’ll have a look into that one. Thanks.

I’m not adverse to looking into different methods but sometimes these things need a proper push by the manufacturers/suppliers.