Tiling On Plywood Floor

Leave a 1 4 inch gap between the edges of the backer board and the walls to allow for subfloor expansion and contraction.

Tiling on plywood floor.

Click to enlarge plywood underlayment glued and screwed to a nominal 3 4 in. Plywood subfloor makes a sturdy substrate for ceramic tile. Place hardiebacker in staggered pattern so no four corners meet. 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.

Trowel out bed of unmodified thinset over wooden subfloor. Plywood must be protected from liquids since this material is highly susceptible to moisture. 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. However backerboard does not provide any structural support so many tile setters prefer two layers of plywood on a floor.

Chipboard cushioned vinyl flooring particle boards of any type oriented strand board osb interior grade plywood tongue and groove planking and hardwood floors are unsuitable substrates for direct installation of ceramic tile. It is important to observe the installation technology otherwise the coating will not be used for long. One example would be to use laticrete s 317 thinset mixed with laticrete 333 liquid latex additive. In other words be sure that no four.

Tape joints with alkali resistant cement. 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. Arrange the sheets so that the ends are staggered and don t align with each other. However tiling onto plywood floors is still acceptable under british standards.

A quality unmodified thinset should be used and mixed with a latex additive. Fasten hardiebacker 1 4 board with corrosion resistant screws or galvanized roofing nails 8 inches apart. After all backer board sheets are in position remove.