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[QUOTE="Edwin Tintoe, post: 981407, member: 58303"] Hi, first post here. I've been lurking this forum for advice for a while, thank you all who share your knowledge. I'm to tile a kitchen of an old (old old) house, farmers concrete with NO DPM, house has no dpc, stone walls. Area 17 sqm, waves up to 12 mm difference, to be finished with porcelain tile. This house has been diy'd by different individuals for over 60 years, such is the nature of the place I'm afraid. We lifted lino with rotten chipboard and a sheet of plastic (DPM) underneath. Concrete was fairly wet, now dried, at least on surface. The concrete is topped with a red pigmented screed around 10mm in thickness (picture where removed as it sounded hollow). Replacing slab is the last last option,as this is a diy and budget sensitive project. Question: is it wise to remove the screed? How should I then proceed in preparing the subfloor for tiling? I've been through a multitude of options, these two stand out: 1. Keep the screed, Sbr slurry, level with SLC,tile with ditra, tile 2. Remove screed, install insulating waterproof backerboard like wedi or marmox on a bed of adhesive, tile. There will be some moisture in the floor as it's just slab on ground (probably added by another diyer when I was not walking this earth yet. I'm worried that overt dampproofing will push moisture up the walls. And that a lack thereof will result in the tile setup fail.Can anyone advise please whether my suggested options are ok, or if there's an approach that I've missed and could deal with this better? Thank you! Whenever you're reading this -have a good day :) [ATTACH=full]123887[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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