Hi all
I'm putting down a quartz tile floor for the kitchen soon, and I'm a bit concerned about the subfloor.
It was originally 20mm pine floorboards for most of the room, but there is also a solid hearth area which covers about 1/4 of the room. The floorboards were old and a bit wobbly, so I replaced them with 18mm exterior grade ply. I then put down 6mm hardibacker over the ply (joints not overlapping), primarily because it brought the "ply" part of the floor up to the level of the solid floor. I also liked the idea of the extra rigidity that it would give.
However, the floor still feels a tiny bit bouncy and I can feel (or at least I think I can feel) the difference between the "ply" floor and the solid floor. I might just be worrying about it too much, but is there anything I can do to test whether it's OK to take the tiles? And there is too much movement for tiles, I assume engineered wooden flooring is a better bet as they are more flexible (literally)?
Thanks
I'm putting down a quartz tile floor for the kitchen soon, and I'm a bit concerned about the subfloor.
It was originally 20mm pine floorboards for most of the room, but there is also a solid hearth area which covers about 1/4 of the room. The floorboards were old and a bit wobbly, so I replaced them with 18mm exterior grade ply. I then put down 6mm hardibacker over the ply (joints not overlapping), primarily because it brought the "ply" part of the floor up to the level of the solid floor. I also liked the idea of the extra rigidity that it would give.
However, the floor still feels a tiny bit bouncy and I can feel (or at least I think I can feel) the difference between the "ply" floor and the solid floor. I might just be worrying about it too much, but is there anything I can do to test whether it's OK to take the tiles? And there is too much movement for tiles, I assume engineered wooden flooring is a better bet as they are more flexible (literally)?
Thanks
