I have heavy ceramic tiles to lay in my lounge on a solid concrete floor. Is there any insulation I can lay under them? I can't use anything remotely flexible as the wheelchair will crack the tiles. There is no way the floor is going to be cut up.
If you do the maths and assume a wheelchair places a 10 sq cm point loading with a weight of (guessing here, Phil) 85kg then that is a point loading of 83 tons, I'm afraid.
Stick another woolie on, Phil
Hi,I have heavy ceramic tiles to lay in my lounge on a solid concrete floor. Is there any insulation I can lay under them? I can't use anything remotely flexible as the wheelchair will crack the tiles. There is no way the floor is going to be cut up.
Today I’m ripping up a floor that I put laminate down on about four years ago. It’s in a bathroom and I strongly suggested tiling it at the time but no she could not be persuaded. All the problems I listed at the time came about. Now I get to replace the floor the way it should have been done in the first place, using up a valuable weekend when I could have been doing something useful. Wives are always experts and know exactly how something should be done…. They learn it from YouTube experts apparently.Had I suggested underfloor heating swmbo probably would have dismissed it out of hand, but I suggested insulation would be a good idea as the floor gets quite cold and left it at that. A couple of hours later she looks up and says wouldn't it be a good idea to put in underfloor heating at the same time?
I find that suggesting that my wife shows me how often works to my advantage.Today I’m ripping up a floor that I put laminate down on about four years ago. It’s in a bathroom and I strongly suggested tiling it at the time but no she could not be persuaded. All the problems I listed at the time came about. Now I get to replace the floor the way it should have been done in the first place, using up a valuable weekend when I could have been doing something useful. Wives are always experts and know exactly how something should be done…. They learn it from YouTube experts apparently.
Having seen me remove the toilet and skirting boards she now realises it is more than the couple of hours she anticipated.
Went there early in the relationship and it then took twice as long to remove/correct what she has done.I find that suggesting that my wife shows me how often works to my advantage.
That would impy a different set of the laws of physics to the ones I'm familiar with. It's a point load from the tyres. Any voids underneath and ...But, surely the load will be spread across the surface of the solid bedded tiles...? Would it not...?
I find I have to prove to my wife regularly that I know what I’m talking about as she doubts me. Haven’t lost a fight yet!I watched my wife doing something badly one day several years ago and thought carefully what to say as she usually bit my head off. Would you rather I watched you cock that up and make yourself a couple of hours hard work tomorrow trying to put it right or would you rather I told you what you're doing wrong? Well, I'd rather you told me what I'm doing wrong, she said. Thank you, I said, I'm not picking holes for the fun of it. From there on in she's been fine with being told.
edit - I should of course have said advised, not told.
Today I’m ripping up a floor that I put laminate down on about four years ago. It’s in a bathroom and I strongly suggested tiling it at the time but no she could not be persuaded. All the problems I listed at the time came about. Now I get to replace the floor the way it should have been done in the first place, using up a valuable weekend when I could have been doing something useful. Wives are always experts and know exactly how something should be done…. They learn it from YouTube experts apparently.
Having seen me remove the toilet and skirting boards she now realises it is more than the couple of hours she anticipated.
Or even a person in a heavy wheelchair.Hence, why I stipulated solid bedded tiles...!
I bow to your knowledge of the laws of physics, but I still feel from having laid many, many square mtrs of tiles over the years, that if the tiles are laid and adhered in the correct manner, a heavy person in a wheelchair is highly unlikely to break through a tile.....!!
Or even a person in a heavy wheelchair.
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