About to start tiling bathroom floor and shower area, and kitchen floor and am spending lots on swish tiles and all the adhesive and cleaners and stuff that goes with them. Will this work:
Floor: old floorboards with some ply sections too. Will make sure all roughly level and sound.
Wall: fitted with 12.5mm Aquapanel, either with Aquapanel screws into studs, battens, or dot and dabbed with stainless steel hammer fixings through dabs. Feels solid.
Tiles: cappuccino marble 305 x 450 x 12 mm for walls and bathroom floor, also some 305x305x10ish mm black granite for kitchen floor.
1) Cover floor with 6mm hardibacker and screw down. Do I need to put cement underneath or just screw down? Think there are some special screws, will check with manufacturer. For the Aquapanel on the walls, use the Aquapanel tape in the joins.
2) Use Mapei Keraquick with Latex Plus adhesive - expecting to get about 4sqm of tiling out of each 20kg bag. Use the white one so marble doesn't suck in the colour. Put adhesive on back of tiles to seal, as well as on floor? What trowel should I use for this size tiles and this subfloor?
3) Cut tiles with a cheapish water-cooled circular saw. Should I get a load of spare blades in, will the granite knacker them?
4) Fit edging for visible edges then lay tiles with 3mm spacers Leave overnight at least.
5) Grout with Mapei Ultracolour Plus. Do I have to use white for the marble again, or can I try colour matching it a bit? Was going to use black grout for the black granite, maybe the caramel for the cappuccino marble.
6) Seal with sealant
7) Clean with the residue remover
8) Seal again
9) Start drilling through for the shower door etc and hope like hell they don't crack...
Is this a solid plan? Never done tiling before but my Dad's helping and he's done a bit, but never bit natural stone tiles.
Thanks,
chris
Floor: old floorboards with some ply sections too. Will make sure all roughly level and sound.
Wall: fitted with 12.5mm Aquapanel, either with Aquapanel screws into studs, battens, or dot and dabbed with stainless steel hammer fixings through dabs. Feels solid.
Tiles: cappuccino marble 305 x 450 x 12 mm for walls and bathroom floor, also some 305x305x10ish mm black granite for kitchen floor.
1) Cover floor with 6mm hardibacker and screw down. Do I need to put cement underneath or just screw down? Think there are some special screws, will check with manufacturer. For the Aquapanel on the walls, use the Aquapanel tape in the joins.
2) Use Mapei Keraquick with Latex Plus adhesive - expecting to get about 4sqm of tiling out of each 20kg bag. Use the white one so marble doesn't suck in the colour. Put adhesive on back of tiles to seal, as well as on floor? What trowel should I use for this size tiles and this subfloor?
3) Cut tiles with a cheapish water-cooled circular saw. Should I get a load of spare blades in, will the granite knacker them?
4) Fit edging for visible edges then lay tiles with 3mm spacers Leave overnight at least.
5) Grout with Mapei Ultracolour Plus. Do I have to use white for the marble again, or can I try colour matching it a bit? Was going to use black grout for the black granite, maybe the caramel for the cappuccino marble.
6) Seal with sealant
7) Clean with the residue remover
8) Seal again
9) Start drilling through for the shower door etc and hope like hell they don't crack...
Is this a solid plan? Never done tiling before but my Dad's helping and he's done a bit, but never bit natural stone tiles.
Thanks,
chris