Protect Your Floors With 5 Easy Steps

5 Easy Steps To Installing Schluter DITRA Uncoupling Membrane for protecting your Floor Tiles against Crack Isolation. Protect Your Tile Install against Floor Movement and Expansion. These steps can be used with most uncoupling membranes, and the methods are much the same. How To Tile over Plywood or Tiling on Concrete, I'll show you Measuring the Matt, Cutting the matt, Mixing Thinnest and Installing the Uncoupling Membrane. In these super simple steps. Easy to install and offer protection to your floor tiles against cracked screeds, and floor movement.
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Chapters:
0:00 - Start
0:50 - Floor Preparation
0:59 - Marking & Cutting Ditra Matt
1:57 - Mixing Thin Set
2:07 - Spreading Tile Adhesive
2:46 - Fixing Uncoupling Membrane
4:14 - Final Thoughts

[@staceypearce3805]

Such great advice Thankyou

[@thebespokebloke]

You're welcome!

[@welsht0m]

What factors do you use to decide between using this vs concrete backer boards on the floor please?

[@thebespokebloke]

Hey, Well they are both great products, and it is situational. So the Backerboard commonly used these days is made of foam on the inside, It's different to the old skool cement backerboard. With that, You get good thermal and waterproof properties. Also you can put it straight onto floorboards. You can also self level on top of it, where as with Ditra matt you need to do all the preparation before hand. So they are things to take into account. The benefit of Ditra is it's only 3mm so if you have height constraints, it's really good for making sure your floor is going to last while keeping it still as low in height as possible. Generally if I'm tiling on a concrete subbase, or ply wood subbase I would use Ditra. When there is floorboards or underfloor heating under the tiles I'd use backerboard (As you would lay backerboard, then put the wires down, then self level it) Hope that helps mate.

[@welsht0m]

@@thebespokebloke thanks for taking the time to reply and in such detail. Very helpful. About to tackle our bathroom in a 10 year old typical new build type house. There is definitely movement in the floor so trying to work out the best approach.

[@thebespokebloke]

@@welsht0m You're welcome, That's what I'm here for. If it's a Uk new build (May apply elsewhere as well), It's probably a green p5 chipboard they have used for the substrate. It is quite common for them to drop and have a bit of bounce in them. If you can afford the height I'd put a 10mm backerboard on it, To strengthen it up a bit as well. Ditra would be fine, But my choice would be backerboard. If you do use Ditra on chipboard, it just has to be stuck down with something like Ardex AF200 Plus. As normal tile adhesive is not good for chipboard. Hope some of that helps!