Has anyone used Mapetex? I need it to cover an area that runs from concrete screed to old chipboard flooring (old house and new extension). I would appreciate your views:
How easy it is to use?
Should I use Keraquick to stick it down?
Does it prevent cracks in stone tiles over the wood/concrete joins in the base?
Anything else I shold be aware of?
Thanks.

Never used it but i will when a job calls for it.
Its an anti fracture Membrane, used for going over chipboard floors.
it will not help where two different substrates like you mention join.You will need an expansion joint over the join.
As for adhesive i would check with Mapei technical 1st

http://www.mapei.it/referenze/Multimedia/902_gb.pdf

Originally Posted by steveamare

Has anyone used Mapetex? I need it to cover an area that runs from concrete screed to old chipboard flooring (old house and new extension). I would appreciate your views:
How easy it is to use?
Should I use Keraquick to stick it down?
Does it prevent cracks in stone tiles over the wood/concrete joins in the base?
Anything else I shold be aware of?
Thanks.

I used a product called PCI Pecilastic recently on a concrete to wooden floor. I was also told to use a movement joint, - NOONE wants this on a kitchen floor.

I rang technical at PCI (BASF) and was told this would do the job providing the wooden floor was stable. So i used it . A movement joint will help with lateral movement but so will this . Nothing will help if the wooden floor sinks. Mapetex may be a similar solution but the pci is less than 1mm thick

http://www.pci.uk.com/en/products/In...s/default.aspx

Yes Mags i think i used this about 10 years ago it seemed the same sort of product as Pecilastic about the same thickness to

Mapetex is an anti fracture membrane that may be used as steveamare suggests. In this context it should be fixed in keraquick incorporating latex plus (see data sheet) and tiles fixed say.....half a metre either side should be fixed in the same modified adhesive. Continue with the modified adhesive over the rigid stable timber and use the unmodified on the concrete section i.e no movement joint. It will cope with lateral movement and nothing will resist planar movement.

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