Floor tiling onto ply - What prep materials and adhesive?

[danza]

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!

 

[danza]

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.

 

[danza]

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.