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I'm converting a bedroom into a bathroom and doing a lot of the unskilled work myself. I'm at the point where I need to prep the timber floor ready for the tiler to come in and I plan to lay 6mm hardie board using screws and https://www.tilersforums.com/forums/tile-adhesive/. I would like to know is there a particular type of https://www.tilersforums.com/forums/tile-adhesive/ that needs to be used?

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They used to say any old powdered tile https://www.tilersforums.com/forums/tile-adhesive/ would do but personally I use the same flexible slowset as I'm using to fix the tiles..
Can I just say that the tiler you've employed should really be doing this as if there ever is a problem with the floor in the future who's to blame..
 
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They used to say any old powdered tile https://www.tilersforums.com/forums/tile-adhesive/ would do but personally I use the same flexible slowset as I'm using to fix the tiles..
Can I just say that the tiler you've employed should really be doing this as if there ever is a problem with the floor in the future who's to blame..

Hi, thanks for the information about the https://www.tilersforums.com/forums/tile-adhesive/. I'm not too concerned about any potential issues along the line, if something goes wrong and the tiles end up coming off because the backer board isn't correctly fixed, I only have myself to blame.

I'll take pictures and make a project thread on here
 
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Hi,

I'm converting a bedroom into a bathroom and doing a lot of the unskilled work myself. I'm at the point where I need to prep the timber floor ready for the tiler to come in and I plan to lay 6mm hardie board using screws and https://www.tilersforums.com/forums/tile-adhesive/. I would like to know is there a particular type of https://www.tilersforums.com/forums/tile-adhesive/ that needs to be used?

Thanks

You need to screw any loose floorboards down. And the type of https://www.tilersforums.com/forums/tile-adhesive/ I would use is an S2 on any wooden subfloor
 

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