Tiling On Plywood Floor

Plywood must be protected from liquids since this material is highly susceptible to moisture.

Tiling on plywood floor.

However tiling onto plywood floors is still acceptable under british standards. It is important to observe the installation technology otherwise the coating will not be used for long. Tiles on the plywood on the floor fit in the case where there is no possibility to use other materials to align the roughing base. Thinset is the wet base that you first trowel on the plywood to make the tile stick.

Trowel out bed of unmodified thinset over wooden subfloor. Leave a 1 4 inch gap between the edges of the backer board and the walls to allow for subfloor expansion and contraction. Use spacers apply grout and finish with water based polyurethane for shine on the wood grains. Place hardiebacker in staggered pattern so no four corners meet.

Click to enlarge plywood underlayment glued and screwed to a nominal 3 4 in. Fasten hardiebacker 1 4 board with corrosion resistant screws or galvanized roofing nails 8 inches apart. However backerboard does not provide any structural support so many tile setters prefer two layers of plywood on a floor. One example would be to use laticrete s 317 thinset mixed with laticrete 333 liquid latex additive.

A quality unmodified thinset should be used and mixed with a latex additive. Take the plywood into strips and cut the parallelograms that can be fit together making a hexagon and a 3d plywood flooring with a repeated wood cub pattern. Arrange the sheets so that the ends are staggered and don t align with each other. In other words be sure that no four.

Plywood subfloor makes a sturdy substrate for ceramic tile. Under british standards bs 5385 part 1 plywood has now been excluded as a suitable substrate material for the direct fixing of wall tiles therefore when tiling on to walls a tile backer board is required. Tape joints with alkali resistant cement.