Floor tiling onto ply - What prep materials and adhesive?

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I'll be tiling my kitchen floor soon and (WBP onto ply) am finding it difficult to definitively decide on prep materials and adhesive. There seems to be rather a lot of variation in opinion as to what is best to use.

So, does anyone here have a tried and tested combination of products, or are there any one-hit-wonder products worth using?

Cheers!
 
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maccapacca said:
Hardi Baker board one with under floor heating that had a reinforcing mesh with it this has been fine the one without the grout is starting to crack and need some maintenance.

Next time I'd add Ditra matting
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I prefer Hardi Backer board to ply, I was going to suggest that orange matting, but can never remember that name Ditra.
Been scratching my head for the last 90minutes to think of it.:(

Mapei make some good adhesives & sealants.
 
Cheers guys. I'm on a very, very tight budget so I think I'll be taking the ply gamble. I'll look into the Bal products - might go for a standard slow-setting adhesive to give myself half a chance.

As for an intermediate layer - adds too much to my budget of bugger-all quid, unfortunately.

So far I have 15 unbuilt units from an abandoned project (£200), 25sqm tiles from another abandoned project (£90 and I should only need to use 18sqm so can sell those which I don't use), an almost new Franke 1.5 bowl stainless sink (£15), a new Rangemaster Aquavogue mixer tap (£35). Trying to find worktops for under £150 (approx 8m). I'll be carting ply and worktops around on the roof of the missus' beemer (cheaper for a pair of roof bars than local delivery from Wickes etc). This should give some idea as to how cheaply I'm trying to make this project!

Although you guys get dibs on told-you-sos when it goes boobs skyward. :p
 
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You thinking of putting 3mtr worktop on roof bars, use a couple of 2x2 bearers length of the worktop to give more support.

Seen a idiot other week with worktop on roof bars, it was flexing wildly up & down, when it suddenly failed & bits worktop were scatter all over the road.:D
 
Yeah don't worry about that - I've already thought of either doing that or strapping a couple together with a couple of ratchet straps. I live less than a mile from a Wickes and a soon-to-open B&Q so it shouldn't be too much of an issue getting it home.
 
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Don't make the mistake I did with my kitchen, about 10 now are cracked where the kids and missus have dropped things on them, these are Italian stone so are a decent tile but I may end up ripping the lot up soon.

Just floor boards overlaid with a thin Hardi Backer board.
 
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