laying marble tile in bath?
Have a 1995 Damon Intruder. Just got back from Wintering in Fl. The bath, smallish as it is, has been quite usable. However, the carpet has become stained and worn, so we decided to put down marble...
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erniee wrote:
I haven't seen any pink underlayment, either. Schluter systems makes an orange mat that can be used under tile. It looks like a waffle. Since this is probably a small area, I don't think the floor would flex that much. If it does, I'd get rid of the coach.
I just finished a 300sf tiling job in my house and used Schluter's Ditra (the orange stuff). The MINIMUM subfloor when using Ditra, is 3/4" plywood or OSB. The minimum subfloor when not using a decoupling membrane such as Ditra is 1 1/4". There are also maximum deflection requirements for tiling, and you would be surprised to see how little deflection a tile can take. Marble is one of the more sensitive tiles to cracking. It doesn't take much at all to crack a marble tile. The coach floor, while rigid enough for a vinyl product, is probably not 3/4" thick and is most certainly not 1 1/4" thick. Also, those required thickness numbers is combined with a 2x10 joist spaced at 16" on center. I can pretty much guarantee the coach is not constructed like that.
But, don't take my word, google tiling requirements (there is a tile association, I forget what it is called) and google Ditra. The installation instructions are available online.
