Mezzanine floor prep - Tile Advice

[Dumbo]

Thanks for all your input guys, thank you Glynn for saying you would spec it out, appreciate it. I emailed the firm today to say I wouldn’t tile the mezzanine, just to big an area for something to go wrong down the line for me, personally can’t risk it, they agreed that lvt would be the way they go.
On the plus side Glynn there is 350m2 on the ground floor, which happens to be an alpha hemi, so as always will be using anhyfix

In your area and with alpha hemi probably a Tom Mayhew screed . Happy days super flat .

 

[Perry]

Have tiled a few in the past with the advice of PCI. Now If I was you I would ask Tilemaster Adhesives.

 

[Glynn]

But how do we know what sufficient support is without knowing the weight of said motorcycles (or whatever else is put on suspended floors) ..... it is a minefield and one that always bites the tiler, not the manufacturer of fixing materials.

Jcrtiling is bang on for me. The weights and dynamics must have been disscussed and built in to the floor structure, and 38mm chipboard is 110% thicher than the 18mm that is installed in most dwellings and we don't question the strength but trust it has been built to Building Regs, so we should trust the builder will build the mezzanine floor to the same Building Regs. I have always tested all my floors with the glass of water test and would do the same on a mezzanine floor and make my decission on the out come of this test. Its a simple test from the Jurassic Period of tiling.

 

[Bill]

I have always tested all my floors with the glass of water test and would do the same on a mezzanine floor and make my decission on the out come of this test. Its a simple test from the Jurassic Period of tiling.

Well, I am old but wasn't around during Dorset's formation, what is your glass of water test then?

 

[Glynn]

Simple. Fill a glass full to the brim, place it in the centre the floor, step back a couple of metres and give a good stamp /jump and if more than a few drops splash out I would then think the floor need attention. On a large floor maybe in a few places. Don't any one post that some people can stamp harder than others or jump higher than others. This is MY test and I beleive in it but it has not been Trade Marked so feel free to use it.

 

[Bill]

How does that test for weighted stress over an elongated period?

Just asking.

 

[Glynn]

It dosen't. Its MY test for suficient support and I would trust the build quailty as jcrtiling posted earlier.

 

[Perry]

Most of the floors I have seen are 300 centres with steel joists. Solid.

 

[goz]

In your area and with alpha hemi probably a Tom Mayhew screed . Happy days super flat .

Yes mate, on a Tom Mayhew screed this week, Burgoyne limestone floor, 80m, saw him pump it in, all brown now as they changed quarry?

 

[Dumbo]

Yes mate, on a Tom Mayhew screed this week, Burgoyne limestone floor, 80m, saw him pump it in, all brown now as they changed quarry?

Apparently had issues with sand supplies but they had three other sands tested and ready to go just in case they had this problem . Still quality work never tiled on a better sceed. Had a potential customer get a surveyor to survey one of screeds because he didn't think it was right , results were a maximum of plus or minus 1 mm over the when lot .

 

[LM]

Apparently had issues with sand supplies but they had three other sands tested and ready to go just in case they had this problem . Still quality work never tiled on a better sceed. Had a potential customer get a surveyor to survey one of screeds because he didn't think it was right , results were a maximum of plus or minus 1 mm over the when lot .

That’s a snooker table to me.

 

[Dumbo]

His work is good .