Advice please on laying floor tiles in a small bathroom, in a bungalow.

The bathroom currently has laminate wood flooring over floorboards.
What's the right way to prepare the surface? Obviously I will remove
the laminate flooring, but do I also need to remove the existing
floorboards?

Thanks
Bruce

wrote:
Advice please on laying floor tiles in a small bathroom, in a
bungalow.

The bathroom currently has laminate wood flooring over floorboards.
What's the right way to prepare the surface? Obviously I will remove
the laminate flooring, but do I also need to remove the existing
floorboards?

Thanks
Bruce

Not a sensible way of laing floor tiles, due to th bounce in the
floorboards.
IMHO you would be best screwing down down half inch marine plywood then
tiling the floor

wrote:
Advice please on laying floor tiles in a small bathroom, in a bungalow.

The bathroom currently has laminate wood flooring over floorboards.
What's the right way to prepare the surface? Obviously I will remove
the laminate flooring, but do I also need to remove the existing
floorboards?

Thanks
Bruce


What type of tiles are they?

Why are you thinking of removing the floorboards ... are they in poor
condition?

Alex.

Ceramic tiles.

I was wondering whether I needed to remove the floorboards to reduce
floor movement. Or can I screw plywood over exisiting floor boards,
then tile over?

Bruce

wrote:
Ceramic tiles.

I was wondering whether I needed to remove the floorboards to reduce
floor movement. Or can I screw plywood over exisiting floor boards,
then tile over?

Bruce

Like I said, half inch Marine Plywood

On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 10:09:12 GMT, "ben" wrote:

wrote:
Ceramic tiles.

I was wondering whether I needed to remove the floorboards to reduce
floor movement. Or can I screw plywood over exisiting floor boards,
then tile over?

Bruce

Like I said, half inch Marine Plywood

ITYM WBP plywood. Marine ply would cost a fortune, and is totally
unnecessary.

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Frank Erskine

ben wrote:
wrote:

Ceramic tiles.

I was wondering whether I needed to remove the floorboards to reduce
floor movement. Or can I screw plywood over exisiting floor boards,
then tile over?

Bruce


Like I said, half inch Marine Plywood



Yeah but if they were cork etc then half inch would probably be overkill.

Alex.

wrote:
Ceramic tiles.

I was wondering whether I needed to remove the floorboards to reduce
floor movement. Or can I screw plywood over exisiting floor boards,
then tile over?

Bruce


With thick ply well screwed down movement should not be a problem.
However, the loss of skirting etc might need to be considered and any
finishing off of floor levels through doorways might be an issue too.

Alex.

"Frank Erskine" wrote in message
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On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 10:09:12 GMT, "ben" wrote:

Like I said, half inch Marine Plywood

ITYM WBP plywood. Marine ply would cost a fortune, and is totally
unnecessary.


IME most supply places are well aware of this common mistake and will
quietly sell you WBP when you ask for Marine Ply. Can make it hard to find
'real' marine ply.

FWIW, WBP is just water and boiling water temperature resistant. Marine ply
is specially selected to have no interior voids or joins in the veneers,
since in a boat the pressure is applied all over it. You don't really need
that for most WBP uses.

Marine ply costs about twice as much as WBP (£85 for a sheet of 12mm)

On 6 Jul 2005 08:55:15 -0700, wrote:

Advice please on laying floor tiles in a small bathroom, in a bungalow.

The bathroom currently has laminate wood flooring over floorboards.
What's the right way to prepare the surface? Obviously I will remove
the laminate flooring, but do I also need to remove the existing
floorboards?

Hi,

This has been dealt with a zillion times before, Google is your
friend:

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk.d-i-y/search?q=tiles+floorboards&start=0&scoring=d&hl=en &

cheers,
Pete.