Durabella batons

[ROBSON MCGREGOR]

Can anyone give advice on laying 450mm x 450mm porcelain floor tile over a durabella baton floor. site agent doesnt want a step going into the kitchen, they were goin to go with a 15mm ply overlay, green sheets on the floor already.
there is a bit of deflection in the floor that i dont like the look of.
done a job a couple of years ago something the same & used bal elastometric floor adhesive.
site agent was going to check on tilebacker boards 6mm?????.
not 100% sure how to go about this.

[jay]

any links on this type of flooring ,its not floating by chance

[Rich]

I dont know what you mean by Durabella baton floor? Any deflection is a big deal and IMO not adhesive will survive long if the deflection is sorted before tiling. Can you explain the make up of the floor a bit more?

[Dave]

Durabella batons are for sound proofing.. is this an up stairs floor..?


Basically thet are batons with sound proofing strips along the side that sits on the floor then the chipboard is screwed to that but still floats..

[Rich]

Durabella batons are for sound proofing.. is this an up stairs floor..?


Basically thet are batons with sound proofing strips along the side that sits on the floor then the chipboard is screwed to that but still floats..

Are the batons not fixed down? Doesnt sound to good for tiling?

[Dave]

Not good for tiling no.. floating floor.

[Dave]

This might help others who have not heard of them..

http://www.durabellaacoustics.com/cradlebatten2.html


as you can see they are dry laid..

[ROBSON MCGREGOR]

Durabella batons are for sound proofing.. is this an up stairs floor..?


Basically thet are batons with sound proofing strips along the side that sits on the floor then the chipboard is screwed to that but still floats..

Yeah dave spot on, upstairs flat (new build) concrete bysons, i was walking back over the floor today again & expressed my concerns about the movement in the floor. the builder has now decided to either lay linolium or click flooring, so its all good.

have you ever tiled over durabellas?

[Dave]

I have not no.. just i have heard of them on a big job i was on about 3 year back.. it was a system they looked at but swapped to full sound mats instead.

[ROBSON MCGREGOR]

I have not no.. just i have heard of them on a big job i was on about 3 year back.. it was a system they looked at but swapped to full sound mats instead.

We did do a bathroom floor in a flat in Largs a few years back for a house builder but we told him that we dont recommend you tile over it.
He contacted Cosmo Ceramics & they told him to overlay with 15mm ply & use Bal elastometric adhesive.
I think the floor is still ok as we have never been asked to go back & look at it.
Cheers dave.

[Rich]

If it a floater then you are well and truly best not touching it. There are hundreds of tilers that have tiled onto floaters and had no problems (Im one of them) but they are so problematic it really is a gamble and I would refuse to tile onto any floating floor.

Thanks for post tho, I learned something new

[ROBSON MCGREGOR]

If it a floater then you are well and truly best not touching it. There are hundreds of tilers that have tiled onto floaters and had no problems (Im one of them) but they are so problematic it really is a gamble and I would refuse to tile onto any floating floor.

Thanks for post tho, I learned something new

cheers Rich, good to hear that, as sir ramic said in another post, "its the tilers that dont learn from this site we should be worried about"