Can I put ceramic tiles on floating floor?

[jaylo1]

Hi I'm new to this forum and need some help.

Basically I have just had the most awful cowboy builders in and they have ruined my bathroom. Since then the bathroom has been stripped and is now a shell.

The old builders told me that I shouldn't put ceramic tyles on a floating floor. Is this true?

If I can what is the best way to prepare the floor to take the tiles?

Thank you.

 

[lancenotalot]

What do you mean by a floating floor?floor brds on joists?

I would inerprite floating floor as laminate where the flooring just lays on the floor with no fixings.

 

[jaylo1]

Hi

It is chipboard on top of joists and the chipboard has been screwed or nailed down so it is fixed. Apparently this is called a floating floor!

Thanks

 

[Richard C]

You can tile over a “floating floor” but I would not advise tiling onto chip (crap) board; you could overboard with 12mm WBP or tile backer boards but I would take it up & replace with 18-25mm WBP ply, depending on the size, pitch & span of your joists. Seal the back & sides of the ply with an SBR sealer & fix with screws down into the joists ever 200mm; any joins in the ply must either run down the centre line of a joist or be supported with noggins; sometimes these aren’t really necessary around the edge of the room if the floor is unlikely to be subject to loading.

 

[lancenotalot]

http://www.answers.com/topic/floating-floor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_floor

It's not a floating floor because it is fixed.

 

[Richard C]

http://www.answers.com/topic/floating-floor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_floor

It's not a floating floor because it is fixed.

Take your point; I think OP really meant suspended floor, hence my use of "quotation marks".