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Bathroom flooring

  • 20-02-2019 11:04am
    #1
    Suzie18
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭


    Hi all, in our bathroom floor upstairs the grouting on the tiles keeps lifting, one or two of the tiles have cracked straight across and it feels uneven under foot. I reckon the sheets of plywood aren't correctly fitted but rather than lift everything I was wondering could I put levelling compound down over the tiles and then just fit lino over. Is this do-able or should I bite the bullet and lift the whole floor.

    Thanks


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  • #2
    Plopsu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 671 ✭✭✭Plopsu


    Suzie18 wrote: »
    Hi all, in our bathroom floor upstairs the grouting on the tiles keeps lifting, one or two of the tiles have cracked straight across and it feels uneven under foot. I reckon the sheets of plywood aren't correctly fitted but rather than lift everything I was wondering could I put levelling compound down over the tiles and then just fit lino over. Is this do-able or should I bite the bullet and lift the whole floor.

    Thanks

    I'm not an expert but I wouldn't use compound over tiles. With the tiles down, you're probably already level with the threshold and the compound till add another couple of mm to this.


  • #3
    antiskeptic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,555 ✭✭✭antiskeptic


    Suzie18 wrote: »
    Hi all, in our bathroom floor upstairs the grouting on the tiles keeps lifting, one or two of the tiles have cracked straight across and it feels uneven under foot. I reckon the sheets of plywood aren't correctly fitted but rather than lift everything I was wondering could I put levelling compound down over the tiles and then just fit lino over. Is this do-able or should I bite the bullet and lift the whole floor.

    Thanks

    Levelling compound won't work. It's thin and brittle and if laid on a moving underfloor will simply crack up. You need to deal with the problem from bottom up: joist sound, floor sound, flexible adhesive, new tiles. It doesn't take long to remove tiles - a few hours to do it.


  • #4
    agusta
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,590 ✭✭✭agusta


    The tiles are not bonded to the plywood,they will come up quite easy.its probably not marine ply.Fit magnesium board and retile


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