First job

[brybry]

Kitchen floor 14sq metres,concrete.
The customer wants the tiles to run thru doorway to bottom of stairs, about 1 square meter.
This is where the problem lies.This area is wooden flooring and is half an inch lower than the concrete kitchen floor.
What do i use to raise it?Ply or leveling compound?

Thx in advance

[uug197h]

i would ply it

[bal]

bring level up with good quality ply plenty of screws too , when i have a solid floor adjoining a wooden floor i use a thin mesh to bridge the gap & strenghten join and lesson the chance of cracks appearing.

[brian c]

what sort of mesh do you use ?chicken wire or something like cutting an angle bead,just curious as i have never heard of this method.

[bal]

Found this mesh by accident its enginners grade mesh only 1mm upto 3mm in my local DIY store comes in different sizes too , i bed it in the adhesive on the wood and concrete with flexi rapid going at least a foot on each sub floor, then tile over it as normal.

[redeye1979]

is that similar to pci pecilastic??

[pjtiler]

put an expansion joint where the two surfaces meet

[grumpygrouter]

Originally Posted by pjtiler

put an expansion joint where the two surfaces meet

I agree with this.

[James@BAL]

Originally Posted by pjtiler

put an expansion joint where the two surfaces meet

Or, as it changes at the door, I presume, just put a threshold bar in.
Still continue to follow the lay out from the main kitchen though.