Hi,
Question - is marmox board a good thing to lay under tiles and engineered wood? Any reason to use Depron for the wood bits - it would be simpler IMO to take one material through teh whole house rather than change at various places?
I'm renovating a 1950's bungalow - with a solid concrete 4"-ish ground floor, no vapour barrier, straight onto hardcore then earth. No overt damp problems noted.
I'm about to ceramic tile a large area (including kitchen and bathroom), and put engineered wood down in the other areas. Screed is sound, slab isn't bad where I've taken up some old quarry tiles - though the slab is a bit "farmer's concrete", ie full of pebbles, but generally solid.
I'm looking to stop the floor being totally cold and I'd like the floor to survive at least 2 decades. Digging up the floor completely is not an option.
I did consider thin celotex overlaid with chip (cheaper/possibly better U value than marmox), but having chip under a kitchen floor and above concrete with no DPM seemed like a very very bad idea.
Many thanks indeed
Cheers
Tim
Question - is marmox board a good thing to lay under tiles and engineered wood? Any reason to use Depron for the wood bits - it would be simpler IMO to take one material through teh whole house rather than change at various places?
I'm renovating a 1950's bungalow - with a solid concrete 4"-ish ground floor, no vapour barrier, straight onto hardcore then earth. No overt damp problems noted.
I'm about to ceramic tile a large area (including kitchen and bathroom), and put engineered wood down in the other areas. Screed is sound, slab isn't bad where I've taken up some old quarry tiles - though the slab is a bit "farmer's concrete", ie full of pebbles, but generally solid.
I'm looking to stop the floor being totally cold and I'd like the floor to survive at least 2 decades. Digging up the floor completely is not an option.
I did consider thin celotex overlaid with chip (cheaper/possibly better U value than marmox), but having chip under a kitchen floor and above concrete with no DPM seemed like a very very bad idea.
Many thanks indeed
Cheers
Tim
