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Have a kitchen / dinning room floor job, concrete floor. Where archway meets in the middle of the room there is a crack along the whole length from side to side, it's a very faint crack so would I need to ditra over the whole concrete floor as the customer insists on not having a movement joint were the crack is also the crack isn't in a straight line. The floor is uneven and has to be self levelled anyway ,so would a fibre slc not stop the crack from transferring to the tile? Tiles are Granite :smilewinkgrin:
 
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I would recommend to Ditra the floor, better to be safe then sorry :), would be interesting to know if the floor is heated and how big is it, wouldn't risk it just to slc it and tile it
 
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Will be a bit price difference adding ditra plus labour. it's not heated and 17 mtrs. I recon I need around 4 bags of slc to make it flat.
 

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Sounds le the concrete wanted a joint at that point. Ditra is appropriate if there is no vertical movement but if there is vertical movement you will need a joint in the tile face as well
 
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This started out as a hairline crack,
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This was after two years, it cracked the limestone much earlier than this.
The company were advised at the time to go with Ditra but wouldn't listen.
 

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