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Hello tilers,
My name is Caley and I thought I would introduce myself to this forum that I stumbled upon having done some preliminary research. I really do the value
forums such as these as they are a fountain of knowledge and truly help inexperienced people such as myself from making mistakes, costly repairs and avoiding getting ripped off by nefarious characters.
I have just project managed two single storey extensions having only ever dabbled in light DIY and I've made a a few errors along the way but nothing insurmountable.
My current project is to lay a new floor in a kitchen diner, we're at 2nd fix stage so it wont be long until its flooring time!
One of the errors that I made was allowing the groundworker to take the floor levels off the wrong DPC so I have a new concrete base that is 40mm lower than that the existing floor make up of the house.
This has caused me a few nights of restlessness and I've been looking at various flooring options such as engineered wood and porcelain tiles and we have settled on the latter. My main concern is how to increase the floor height by 25-30mm in addition to the 10mm tile. The options I've looked at are screeds, self levelling compounds and thick bed adhesives and ultimately I'm looking at the pros and cons for these three options.
So that's where I'm at the moment and would welcome any advice at this stage.
Cheers
Caley
My name is Caley and I thought I would introduce myself to this forum that I stumbled upon having done some preliminary research. I really do the value
forums such as these as they are a fountain of knowledge and truly help inexperienced people such as myself from making mistakes, costly repairs and avoiding getting ripped off by nefarious characters.
I have just project managed two single storey extensions having only ever dabbled in light DIY and I've made a a few errors along the way but nothing insurmountable.
My current project is to lay a new floor in a kitchen diner, we're at 2nd fix stage so it wont be long until its flooring time!
One of the errors that I made was allowing the groundworker to take the floor levels off the wrong DPC so I have a new concrete base that is 40mm lower than that the existing floor make up of the house.
This has caused me a few nights of restlessness and I've been looking at various flooring options such as engineered wood and porcelain tiles and we have settled on the latter. My main concern is how to increase the floor height by 25-30mm in addition to the 10mm tile. The options I've looked at are screeds, self levelling compounds and thick bed adhesives and ultimately I'm looking at the pros and cons for these three options.
So that's where I'm at the moment and would welcome any advice at this stage.
Cheers
Caley
