durabella batons

**steveboy** · 30-09-2011

Ok heres the thing....

I am on a full bathroom re-fit, the old bath had been leaking from a few places for quite a while by the looks of it. The old chip board floor had to be replaced, so I removed that to find these wooden batons with a kinda rubber on the base of them, these were rotten as well. After some investigating as to what they were I found out that it was for a floating floor system. So now I have sourced new batons, insulation & fitted it all with the floor, but now there seams to be more movement than before. Now my customer has ordered 300X300 stardust tiles for the floor. I am not sure what to do as im afrade they are all gona break or pop loose & i get called back when this happenes.

Is there any way I can strengthen the floor right up or could i use this dura base matting????

Any help or advice would be much appreciated...

Cheers

doug boardley · 01-10-2011

the dura base matting won't help with deflection (vertical) Stevey, have you tried bracing the joists with dwangs?

**andy allen** · 01-10-2011

if its a true floating floor, then i wouldn't tile it..

**trevortine** · 01-10-2011

Hey Stevey, came across these many a time! , ditch them and rebuild the floor with 2x2, leveling as you go and fix them to the concrete floor with hammer fixings.

**steveboy** · 01-10-2011

Hi all

Yeah is a true floating floor, I spoke with my customer today & explaned the whole thing to her and that I wouldnt like her spending a lot of moneyon these tiles & they either break or pop loose. So now im sure she will be going for linolium now.

Thanks again guys

**ROBSON MCGREGOR** · 01-10-2011

Hi m8, i posted on here about 6/8 weeks ago about durabella batons, i have tiled over them once with BAL elastometric, i think it was ok but i spoke to the site agent & they ended up putting down lino! i think this is the safest bet, i wouldnt risk it!

**Rich** · 01-10-2011

I think you have done the right thing. Well done mate, a lot of people would have just tiled it, took the money and run.

**steveboy** · 03-10-2011

Originally Posted by Rich

I think you have done the right thing. Well done mate, a lot of people would have just tiled it, took the money and run.

Cheers Rich, She is defo getting the lino, there was a note left for me to say it was ordered & will be delivered. I'm not in to ripping people off & running. I'd rather be honnest about everything & hope that I will get more work or referals for the honesty. its the best way....