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Personjaney47
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I moved house a few months ago and now have a bathroom with a wooden floor. The whole room is manky to be honest, it was all Installed 30 years ago and is now just not nice.
I want to tile the floor and create a sort of walk in shower. Although not a wet room as the shower will have a small step into it.
Someone mentioned to be very careful tiling upstairs incase the floor moves.
This is a very old creaky house, but surely there is something that can be put down first to counter this?
I will be using a trusted builder to do the work. I haven't asked him for a quote yet. I'm worried now that he will advice against tiling the floor and I won't be able have want I wanted for my new bathroom.
I don't want wet room flooring as I've seen it installed in a house and really didn't like it, I'd much prefer tiles. Am I going to be disappointed?


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I think there are solutions which firm up a flexing wooden floor but I don't know how viable they are for upstairs in an old house.

Also, unless a heating membrane is laid first, actual ceramic or marble tiles can be cool, and actually cold in a downstairs application.

For me, I'd look at the thermo-plastic (is that the name?) marble-look-alike tiles. A neighbour has just had them laid. They do cater for some flex but look exactly like the real thing.

Anyway, be interested as to what you end up going for. Good luck.

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31/3/2014 at 6:12pm
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A marine plywood board over the floorboards should give a sound base to tile on but I am also a fan of the thermo plastic(is that the name tiles). The look as good, are warmer and easy to cut.

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They recommend a really thick marine ply base for the tiles and it should be screwed down to the joists at short intervals. I like that plastic type flooring that is fixed to the floor and heat sealed at the joints, but I can imagine it is very expensive.


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When we had our bathroom floor tiled with ceramic floor tiles, the contractor put down plywood on top of floor boards, they did not tile under the bath though. As our Bathroom has a small floor space 1 box of floor tiles was all we needed ! Cheaper than carpet /Lino and plastic tiles.

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Personjaney47
31/3/2014 at 6:53pm
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It's the heat sealed wet room floor stuff I'm not keen on, I want the floor tiles to match the wall tiles, but non slip version.
My son thought a rubber type grout which allows flexibility might also be wise.
I've googled the thermo plastic tiles and all I've found is Asbestos tiles, so they can't be the right ones.
Does anyone have a link or the proper name for them please?
Thanks ,, Jane


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this type of thing?
even has a video showing you how to lay them, personaly i as others have said above just used normal floor tiles and waterproof grout ontop of a sheet of ply


http://www.best4flooring.co.uk/vinyl-flooring/moduleo-globalthese tiles?


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Oh great thank you, I'll get the builder round later this week see what he says.
My trouble is I have a picture in my head of how I want it to be. If he doesn't recommend ceramic tiles it looks like there a good range of the Global tiles that might match my vision of the new bathroom.


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Its a straight forward job in ceramic tiles if the prep is done properly.Basically marine ply is laid over your existing floor and nailed down heavily to prevent movement.

I did it in our last house with no cracking of the grout or tiles over the 7 years we were there.


Personmikegalagher
31/3/2014 at 8:47pm
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Ah right, I should have realised they'd need to match wall tiles. Back to the ceramics/marbles and a rigid floor then.

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Modern tile adhesive for wooden floors is excellent. Make sure your builder knows what he is doing and you'll have no problems.
If the existing flooring isn't sufficient, for example well secured 25mm T&G is fine, then the tiler will secure ply wood over the top. The thickness of the ply wood generally will depend on the size of the tiles. It doesn't need to be marine ply unless you are going to allow water to pool on the tiles for long periods.

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Personjaney47
31/3/2014 at 10:04pm
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Thanks for the advise everyone, when he comes round to see the room I might actually almost sound like I know what I'm talking about now!
I do trust him as he's done work for my parents and friends, I just hope I can replicate the picture I have in my head of the room.


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as a property repairer myself sometimes the biggest problem is trying to imagine what the customer has a picture of in their head :p


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Good moisture resistant ply, varnished , then there is a plastic mat that looks almost like a castle enbattlement that goes down and house tile on that.. No cracks ,, no movement presuming the joists are good.

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