Recent content by hhrr

Have heard WBP suggested but only since I have laid the chipboard (as I said before, I just replaced like-for-like) and i'm reluctant to pull it up and start over. Is it desirable and just best-practice or is it going to prevent a disaster?

The flooring is tongue and groove and appears to be pretty well constrained (though i'm still suspicious). I had considered putting a tile skirt around the edge of the room. It was suggested to perhaps lay the tiles and then fix the tile skirt with silicon instead of grout as it may have more...

Yeah - this is what I would have expected but there's no screed. With that being the case, would you anticipate I would have any problem laying tiles?

The entire floor was supported on polystyrene sheets - no timber joists at all. Beneath the polystyrene is the concrete slab. As I say - this was surprising to me but as far as I could tell has done the job for 20 years... I'll see if I can get some photos...

I recently began replacing my bathroom (ground floor) in my flat. The floor was carpeted and where I was careless in jumping out of the bath without a bath mat, the floorboard (chipboard) absorbed the water and so had to be replaced. Wasn’t a big deal – I was replacing the positions of the...