Hi all,
This is my first posting here although I have dipped in and out in the past and found some excellent advice on various topics (thank you all) but I can't find specific advice on my current task.
Here is my situation:
I want to fit Karndean tiles to a ground floor room in a 1950s house, the floor is concrete, probably got no DPM but not damp according to a wee meter I borrowed, very snooth & level and no defects. It does however have a hardwood border about 40mm wide set level with the floor around the perimeter of the room, presumably to make life easy when fitting carpet gripper. Room is 2.6m x 2.1 m.
I'm quite happy with the measuring, trimming round sanitary ware, setting out and so on but the fixing is troubling me.
So, ply overlay, yes or no?
If yes, how thick?
Small sheets with a lot of cuts or biggest possible with fewest cuts?
How to fix ply to floor? (The concrete is VERY hard)
What adhesive to fix tiles to ply?
If no ply, what adhesive is best for fitting tiles direct to concrete?
Any advice would be most welcome,
Adam
This is my first posting here although I have dipped in and out in the past and found some excellent advice on various topics (thank you all) but I can't find specific advice on my current task.
Here is my situation:
I want to fit Karndean tiles to a ground floor room in a 1950s house, the floor is concrete, probably got no DPM but not damp according to a wee meter I borrowed, very snooth & level and no defects. It does however have a hardwood border about 40mm wide set level with the floor around the perimeter of the room, presumably to make life easy when fitting carpet gripper. Room is 2.6m x 2.1 m.
I'm quite happy with the measuring, trimming round sanitary ware, setting out and so on but the fixing is troubling me.
So, ply overlay, yes or no?
If yes, how thick?
Small sheets with a lot of cuts or biggest possible with fewest cuts?
How to fix ply to floor? (The concrete is VERY hard)
What adhesive to fix tiles to ply?
If no ply, what adhesive is best for fitting tiles direct to concrete?
Any advice would be most welcome,
Adam