Low quality floor slab - TilersForums.com

[NigelB]

Hi, looking for help with options here. Stripped out old kitchen and lamintate floor to reveal several cracks - rubbish slab really - some small vertical movement as well as horizontal so clearly can't tile direct even with an isolation membrane. New kitchen coming in 6 weeks, can't be delayed, wife insists on tiled floor. No time to rip out and replace slab - and it would take too long to dry anyway. Looking for a less than ideal way that i might get away with. oh and limited headroom too!

Thought of levelling out and fix cracks as best I can, layer of DPM then 22mm chipboard glued as a floating floor, then tile on top using flexi adhesive? maybe with a decoupling membrane on top of chipboard? Any chance that might work? Many thanks
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[Qwerty]

Your second thoughts are a less viable option than the decoupling membrane to be fair. How much movement are we talking? Any pics?

 

[Ian]

A picture would be really handy please.

 

[nybor62]

forget about the chipboard idea

 

[NigelB]

Love to upload a pic but can't seem to, upload maanger says i only have 9.8kb allowance (no photos uploaded at all, new user) so even my smallest pic is way over, and won't let me post a link to photobucket either!

 

[Qwerty]

Love to upload a pic but can't seem to, upload maanger says i only have 9.8kb allowance (no photos uploaded at all, new user) so even my smallest pic is way over, and won't let me post a link to photobucket either!

Send them through to my business email address and I will upload them

 

[NigelB]

Send them through to my business email address and I will upload them

Many thanks, mail sent

Nigel

 

[Qwerty]

 

[Ajax123]

Wow... You could always run kicking and screaming...

 

[White Room]

Jeeez that looks like a patchwork quilt...