Hi,
The kitchen floor I have been renovating had the floor part tiled and part hardwood floor. The tiles were on a concrete pad but also over some of the floor boards, with just some screed/levelling compound. the tiles were not cracked and seemed ok.
My question is that I am intending to have it half and half tile and laminate again, with the tiles over a bit more of the floorboards (tiles over the area circled in red in photo). What I am intending to do is put down some self levelling compound over the area to be tiled to get a level area (over concrete and floor boards in the circled area - filling the gaps of the boards first), and then lay 6mm tile aquadry backerboard ( https://www.diy.com/departments/aqu...mm-w-600mm-t-6mm/1055170_BQ.prd#icamp=product ) then tile on top of this. the other side of the floor I was going to have 5mm foam underlay ( https://www.diy.com/departments/dia...-flooring-aquastop-underlay-5m/1570774_BQ.prd ) and then laminate on top of this. This should have both parts of the floor at almost the same level, and just have a threshold strip over the join of the two floors.
But what I have been reading is for tiles you should use plywood first, would I still need to do this even when using tile backerboard? as I do not what to raise the floor any higher.
Do you think I can get away with this, or am I going the wrong way about this.
Thanks in advance,
Mat.
The kitchen floor I have been renovating had the floor part tiled and part hardwood floor. The tiles were on a concrete pad but also over some of the floor boards, with just some screed/levelling compound. the tiles were not cracked and seemed ok.
My question is that I am intending to have it half and half tile and laminate again, with the tiles over a bit more of the floorboards (tiles over the area circled in red in photo). What I am intending to do is put down some self levelling compound over the area to be tiled to get a level area (over concrete and floor boards in the circled area - filling the gaps of the boards first), and then lay 6mm tile aquadry backerboard ( https://www.diy.com/departments/aqu...mm-w-600mm-t-6mm/1055170_BQ.prd#icamp=product ) then tile on top of this. the other side of the floor I was going to have 5mm foam underlay ( https://www.diy.com/departments/dia...-flooring-aquastop-underlay-5m/1570774_BQ.prd ) and then laminate on top of this. This should have both parts of the floor at almost the same level, and just have a threshold strip over the join of the two floors.
But what I have been reading is for tiles you should use plywood first, would I still need to do this even when using tile backerboard? as I do not what to raise the floor any higher.
Do you think I can get away with this, or am I going the wrong way about this.
Thanks in advance,
Mat.
