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A floor is the bottom surface of a room or vehicle. Floors vary from simple dirt in a cave to many-layered surfaces made with modern technology. Floors may be stone, wood, bamboo, metal or any other material that can support the expected load.
The levels of a building are often referred to as floors, although a more proper term is storey.
Floors typically consist of a subfloor for support and a floor covering used to give a good walking surface. In modern buildings the subfloor often has electrical wiring, plumbing, and other services built in. As floors must meet many needs, some essential to safety, floors are built to strict building codes in some regions.

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  1. OllieFormosa

    Tiling on OSB floorwith SBR slurry, no backer. Will i get away with it

    OK hear me out. Kitchen floor. Pro tiler. 15mm clearance from top of dishwasher to underside of worktop. Customer wants 900x900 tiles on floor. Not enough height to overboard the OSB with BB and tile. Same with ditra etc. Customer doesn't want to pay for removal of OSB + replace w/ ditra or...
  2. SanDiegoChip

    Looking for Advice on Plan to Lay Tile over Tile for Shower Floor

    Hello, Just joined the forum and am hoping to get some advice on a project. I live in San Diego, CA - hope this is OK (just noticed you are UK based). My wife and I have been unhappy with our master bath walk-in shower floor since we bought the house 25 years ago. We do not like the...
  3. M

    Extension floor - decoupling membrane?

    Hi, I had a small kitchen extension built a couple of years ago. The new sand and cement screed has been taken right up to the old one over where the old external wall used to be. Obviously after a couple of years this has now well dried out. The new floor has more insulation than the old. The...
  4. T

    Raising a bathroom floor with shims/packers

    I'm refitting our bathroom which is about 3m sq and am putting in a wetroom shower in the corner with the hidden tray under the tiles. The floor slopes slightly and not in the right direction for the shower. I'm putting 18mm ply on the joists and adding noggins for extra rigidity but am...
  5. L

    Large format tiles entire Ground floor through doorways.

    I’m tiling a ground floor of a house approx 120m through a ground floor with 5 doorways in the hall way leading into kitchen, living room, office, W/C and reception room. The tiles are 120 x 60 porcelain tiles 10mm thick. My problem is going through all the doorways where I know the tiles are...
  6. A

    Hello & advice re shower / tiles / possible moving floor

    Hello there, Relatively recently we had a new en-suite fitted (complete rip out of the old fittings, and old wall tiles and floor carpet). This consisted of a quadrant shower enclosure, a stone-resin shower tray, new ceramic tiles on the floor and half tiling on the walls. All the work...
  7. M

    Quarry tile floor needs replacing

    Hi guys, I’m new to this forum so apologies if already discussed but couldn’t find anything. I’ve had a survey done on a house I’m purchasing and the surveyor noticed quarry tiles in the living room under the carpet. This has caused damp on the floor and it’s also present in the walls. He...
  8. philupnorth

    USA Floor tile layout advice please

    I have a small kitchen with a floor area of 265cm x 140cm with the door recess adding another 20 cm to the length & I have tiles that are 120cm x 20cm. I will be coating the floor with an SBR primer first because of the bitumen on there & I have some old glue residue to remove first from stuck...
  9. Sprotty

    Water UFH Cracks bridging screed and blockwork

    We are currently at the planning stage for a floor with bifold windows and wet underfloor heating. Basically the tiles near the windows will need to go over the screed and onto a concrete block on the perimeter (red arrows). I'm concerned that the screed with the insulation under it is likely...
  10. T

    Water UFH Best timber floor base

    I'm about to start on an upstairs wetroom. There will be wet underfloor heating going in via spreader plates. The former will be a 22mm maxxus. Current joists are 7" at ~420 centres. 3x3m room. As all the floor boards will be getting ripped out I'm unsure what the best material to put back down...
  11. B

    Moisture content of floor prior to tiling.

    Hi, I would like to know an acceptable moisture level of a floor prior to tiling. I have a newly laid floor (2 to 2.5 months) which is showing a relative moisture level of between 12 to 16%. The floor appears dry with no signs of discolouration (darker patches). Have been checking the floor for...
  12. B

    UK Bathroom Floor Tile Advice

    We are currently re-doing our bathroom. Everything has been stripped back. Property is a 1930's house. The bathroom floor boards had terrible woodworm so after removing and treating the joists for woodworm, we have replaced the floorboards with 12mm structural ply-board as advised by a well...
  13. atsgmo

    Amtico - but can we wait 5 months for floor to dry?

    We are looking for flooring for our new kitchen, lounge and hallway and would like to use LVT throughout. The vast majority will be floorboards but we have had underfloor heating put in a relatively small area of the kitchen and lounge which was screeded with 100mm depth about 2 weeks ago. We...
  14. I

    I'm Looking For This Tile Essent.cross soft RT _1_ E50 R

    Hi, Manufacturer is Elios Ceramica in Italy, sold via tile giant stores, but discontinued 2022. Tile 0726A45 ESSENT.CROSS RT. -1- E50 R Size 1200mm X 200mm gray wood effect looking for 4 packs, each pack has 4 tiles
  15. Rhedyn

    Natural Stone Materials for slate bathroom floor in old traditional stone house?

    Hello all, I'm looking to lay a Penrhyn slate floor, approx 1.5m x 1.8m, for a first floor bathroom in a very old (but not listed) traditional Welsh stone farmhouse, and I have some questions about the best approach to take. I have attached a photo of the underside of the wood beam and plank...
  16. F

    Prep advice on block and beam floor

    Hi, after some advice, doing some renovations at a house we’ve just moved into. Knocked kitchen/diner into 1 room, took the tiles up from the existing kitchen and there appears to be a hump in the concrete screed, it’s a block and beam floor, put level on the highest point and there’s 6mm gap...
  17. L

    Pictures Failing mosaic tiles on shower floor

    I bought Faulty Towers last June. I have done a fix on my shower floor tiles. It has lasted for a couple of months but is now failing again. The problem is mosaic tiles coming off. I tried siliconing them to the adhesive base then a bit of grout in the gaps. So, that doesn’t work. Is there a...
  18. I

    USA Floor Tile Edge Profile Height Issue

    We recently completed the (rectified porcelain) floor tile installation in the bathroom and finished the edge with the trim extrusion we were given when we bought the tiles. At the time i thought the edging profile was a little too high but since i couldn’t find any alternatives available that...
  19. M

    Installing floor tiles under kitchen units

    I'm getting large floor tiles install in the kitchen with existing kitchen units. However, getting different comments from companies over the difficulty of installing the tiles under the existing kitchen units. It's not a problem where there are kitchen cabinet legs and a plinth hiding it as...
  20. H

    Tiles not bonded to floor properly

    We are having some issues with our newly laid tiles. Within several weeks of being laid, we noticed some hollow and 'popping' sounds on the tiles in high traffic areas and the grout started to crack. We are getting conflicting answers about what the issue could be from our contractor. Can you...
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