Uncoupling membrane vs no more ply, when & where? - Tile Advice

[Old Mod]

I will take a look into it. I personally haven't seen this one in the flesh is it like the BAL Rapid mat?
Sam

Yeah that's the one Sam, no actually, Bal is very similar to Isomat, but Tilemaster's is more like a felt construction, much more like material in construction, so you have to hold it both sides or it collapses if you try and lay it by one edge.
It won't support itself if you hold it by just one edge.
thats a better description haha
It'll stretch fairly easily if you're not aware, but it adheres extremely well and it just feels more substancial than others, with no problems to date that we know of.

 

[Dumbo]

No problems to date that I now of . That what I tell my customers if something has failed and they don't tell me as far as I'm aware no problems to date .

 

[Old Mod]

No problems to date that I now of . That what I tell my customers if something has failed and they don't tell me as far as I'm aware no problems to date .

You might
I don't.
Believe me all problems with thin porcelain are reported back straight away.

 

[Pro Tiler Tools]

Ah see that looks like a different system to the 1mm ones i am talking about. Its strange as we normally hear of these things pretty quickly but we havent seen this one yet.

 

[Dumbo]

No problems to date that I now of . That what I tell my customers if something has failed and they don't tell me as far as I'm aware no problems to date .

Just going to re write this . No problems to date that i know of .That is what I tell my customers when discussing tiling to a tricky substrate . If customers don't tell me of failures then as far as I am aware no problems to date . I have walked in to many a house to look at new work and have seen tiles failing of previously done work by people and the customer is non the wiser. so if customer does not let tiler know he will be saying the exact same thing but some customers are not aware .

 

[Flintstone]

What do you class as a difficult substrate?

 

[Dumbo]

I didn't use the word difficult . Tricky , bouncing timber floors . Floating floors , walls with hanging plaster . Pretty much much anything that I have to put work into to bring it up to a standard that I will be happy to tile on without it failing I regard the biggest enemy of a tiler is a moving substrate .

 

[V Man]

I always use 6mm Hardie to over-board a timber floor, glued & screwed. I would only use an uncoupling membrane if I was fixing stone or on to a newish screed. Keraquick on every floor.

What primer you use (if any) on timber/chipoard floor before putting hardie down ?

 

[Ttt1601]

Anyone use this stuff before Kerakoll.com - http://products.kerakoll.com/catalogo_dett.asp?idp=6966

I umm "inherited" a couple of 80m rolls that were over ordered on a subby job I was on, I find it alright, used a lot of it now never had any issues

 

[One Day]

Can i just point out that tilemaster mat and BAL rapid mat are not single layer construction. Both offer far more than single materials such as mapeitex etc.