floor
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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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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Removal of stubborn oil stain on concrete floor before tiling
Hiya, I am in the process of preparing a concrete floor in my mum's house for tiling, and have found that cooking oil which was spilled on the carpet years ago has gone right through, leaving some stubborn stains. I have already tried Sugar soap/detergent Mix of sawdust and white spirit... -
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150x900mm floor tiles - 2mm grout and 50:50 pattern
Builders have installed 15x 900mm tiles with a 2mm pattern and 50:50 brick effect. They suggested 2mm (I previously suggested 4mm), I probably suggested 50:50, but did not know that grout / pattern effected anything but aesthetics. There is now widespread lippage due to what I am told is... -
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Nightmare floor - caberfloor - cracking tiles - best adhesive/solution
We had our kitchen floor tiled in large plank-style porcelain tiles (90cm x 15cm) about 2 years ago. The tiler tiled them onto caberboard and there is also an underfloor heating mat under there too. Since then we’ve had grout popping and tiles cracking left, right and centre. In total about 5...- adysaes
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- adhesive floor tiles
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- Forum: Adhesive and Grout
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Preparation Primer for tiling over sound/solid floor tiles
Hi, I'm wanting to tile over kitchen floor tiles, tiles are soundly stuck down. Main issue is they're smooth and shiny. Cannot be arsed to grind them. What's the best primer before laying over them. Thanks in advance- Rodduz
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- floor primer tiles tiling
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- Forum: Adhesive and Grout
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Experienced Large Format Floor Tiler for 60m2 Project (Bedfordshire)
Lets start at the beginning, apologies for the backstory. Our house is 22 years old, the floor is a stony screed finish and has 6-7mm level difference between the hallway and the lounge. The floor was mostly clean, never been tiled too except for the kitchen where they were tiled from new. The...- tez162003
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- Forum: Tiling Jobs | Tile Fixer & Contractor Work
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Tiling on floor grade mastic asphalt
I'm about to tile an area 2m X 10m in a kitchen area. The floor is covered with floor grade building mastic, hard, black, around 20mm thick. I'm planning on using a decoupling mat after cleaning and using Sbr on the asphalt. Part of the bitumen is uneven, to about 1cm over the 2m width. I'm... -
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Floor tiling fundamentals
What are the fundamentals you yourselves use when setting out floors of any size? More specifically what is the process of finding your lines to work off of? I know this is a bit question and I appreciate any feedback, just looking for a few pointers and hopefully improve 👍 -
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Uneven kitchen floor tiling
I'm having my kitchen renovated and the tiler came last week and did the floor tiles. They're 175x200mm Porcelain hex tiles. He laid the tiles onto no more ply cement board that was put down by our builders. The day after the tiling I realised the floor isn't flat - almost every tile is not...- apfeltaschen
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- floor floor tiling kitchen tiling uneven
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- Forum: America
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My 1st Job Mike's Bathroom floor project
First time tiling, I'm using 12 X 12 ceramic tiles on the floor. Cement board underlayment is down, I've dry fitted the tiles with spacers, but some of the tiles aren't quite flat on the floor, they wobble a little. Can I mix the thinset mortar a little thicker and use it to make all tiles...- mevans0430
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- bathroom floor
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- Forum: The Welcome Forum
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How smooth should floor be before laying?
How smooth does the floor surface need to be before laying porcelain tiles? I have removed tiles and theres bits of adhesive stuck to the floor causing small bumps, theres a few pits too. Can I lay tiles straight over this? -
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Help with levelling a floor
Looking for some advice. I want to tile a floor but it runs out by 20mm on one side. The levels are all over and wanted to know the best way of levelling it before tiling. The floor has already been concrete boarded as the floor was a mess -
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Tiling On Floor Which Is Slightly Uneven
Hi, I recently had my floor self levelled by a tiler, unfortunately it's cracked twice but this time the floor is sound with no hollow spots, so hopefully I am ok to tile over. It's an L shape room. I have used a laser level with a piece of timber to mark the varying heights of floor, some...- kevinsmbuk
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- floor tiling uneven
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- Forum: DIY Tiling Forum
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I'm Looking For This Tile Looking for Merola (possibly) kitchen floor tiles?
Not sure of name (Merola or Alora?), or if they're porcelain or ceramic (suspect the latter), these are fitted on kitchen floor and am struggling to identify them, or find on-line. They were fitted in the house when we bought it back in 2005. The tiles measure 13"x13" (33x33cms), some are...- Marko797
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4mm porcelain floor mosaic - Trowel size?
Hi all, I’ve got three bathrooms to tile using 3.8mm Winckelmans porcelain hexagons (25mm). The substrate is fibre cement sheet over floorboards. What’s the best type and size of trowel to use for a tile this thin? I was thinking a 4mm std. notch trowel. Does anyone have a better suggestion... -
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Ideas for filling in a cut-out section of a porcelain tile floor.
Seeking ideas for filling in a cut-out section of a porcelain tile floor. I removed a display cabinet from my business reception area. What remains is a missing section of tile that was cut to fit around the cabinet and concrete floor beneath the defect. The original tiles are 20” x 20”. The... -
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Advice for tiling bathroom floor
Folks I'm after some general advice for tiling a floor... I'm going to be laying 60 x 60 tiles. So I've replaced all the floor with 22mm T&G P5 and I've going to lay hardibacker over the top. Should I SBR the floor before fitting the hardibacker or just make sure its good and clean? So once... -
Is this floor tile alignment acceptable?
This is the tiling on a Victorian house bathroom floor after a renovation. Is this alignment / setting out acceptable? How can it be remedied if not? Highlighted to the contractor from the start how the tiles do not run parallel to any of the walls, and was told the room isn’t square, so the... -
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Bathroom floor and wall advice
Hi all, currently have a Self build in progress and require some advice, after reading a few posts and doing a little research I have come to the conclusion that my two upstairs bathrooms set on 600 centres posi joist and 22mm caberdek should have been 400 centres and a totally different floor... -
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Extending current porcelain floor tile without door strip
Afternoon all, I am purchasing a new build property and the builder has already laid 4500mm x 4500mm porcelain floor tiles through the entrance, hallway and kitchen. As part of the purchase we have agreed they will lay the same tiling in 3 additional ground floor rooms but they have stated they... -
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Issue picking grout for my polished san dona marble hex shower floor
Hello everyone I have a question I have installed hex polished marble san dona tile in my shower floor and 3x6 on the walls. I'm not sure what to use on the floor for grout sanded or un sanded.... I have ~1/8 joints. Thanks for the input
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