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Loft conversion ensuite flooring, need some advice
We are renovating the upstairs shower room and under the tiles is a chipboard floor. The tiles will be coming up (floor wasn’t prepped properly so they are all cracked) but I was wondering if you could advise how I should prep the chipboard floor before putting the shower tray down? (Plan will be for shower tray to go down first then flooring up to the shower tray rather than how the previous owners did it which was to tile under the shower tray)
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I’m not completely sure why but when I had my bathroom done, my builder used marine cement board under the shower and all walls where tiling would be.
Chipboard has no place in a bathroom, any slightly leak and everything has to come up, plus it does tend to move
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I’d probably do the lot on marine cement board or any waterproof tile backer board then tank it (tanking kit from screwfix etc) just to be sure you don’t want anything coming through your ceilings in the future
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Agree with the cement board, we had this down in both bathroom and ensuite and there’s not a mm of movement in the tiles several years on, no gaps in grout or anything.
Id also look at baker board.
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