Sub base to tile on ?

Hi there - I have a chipboard floor in my bathroom and need to lay ceramic or travertine tiles. The chip board floor has not been laid very well and has a few minor gaps in.To remedy this I was planning on laying DITRA matting and then tiling over the top of that. I've never done this before so was looking for some tips ?

What do you use to stick the matting down with and will this work with a chipboard floor ?

Do you then just use a normal floor tile adhesive over the top of the matting ?

Any advice much appreciated.

Cheers

Fastmonkey

I guess you got no answers as there are loads of threads on this ,
use search
get chipboard up an replace with 18mm wbp....

I must have missed this one.

The detra matting is an uncoupling membrain, you will still need to reinforce the floor by either taking up the chipboard and replacing with ply (25mm if travatine) or by overlaying with 12mm ply/aquapanel.

Have a read of this
http://www.schluter.co.uk/produkt.aspx?doc=6-1-ditra.xml&pg=funktion

Jason

our jase
Ive been wary on this detra gear ,
an didnt recommend it here for a diyer as it is still OUT in the Tiler camps about it ,
krauts love all this new stuff ,
but a top tiler forum I go to...
I hear horror stories regarding UFH probs /stability issues


I would always recommend , the ply substrate til this gear has been fully Years tested ,
in the schluter small print they talk of it failing , but of course to bad fitting , hmmm
you know tiles can be highly costly an to put you name /good reputation to a new substrate method which has been fully tested like ply /cement backer board ..
(blokes have rung their complaint desks about probs an are given written stock answers an if different to question , they just refer to fitting instructions , hmmm , shocking )
Im sorry Im not sold on it ...wether you use it day in an out , I dont know but I have read about probs ....an if you use PLY / cement backer board , NONE
best regards
moz