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My husband and I are trying to plan our deck. We are trying to do our research to find the best way to do what we want to do. We live in Saskatchewan, Canada. We have hot summers and very cold winters. We want to tile our deck, and we know what we want to do, but we want to do it in the best way, while being as inexpensive as possible.
We know that we want to use porcelain tile, (we have found a great 24x24 tile, that looks and feels very much like slate.) The plan is to put the tile inside a cedar trim on our outdoor deck 12' in the air. We understand that the joists need to be closely centered in order to have a structure that doesn't move a lot. So we're good with the actual structure. We just aren't sure how to lay the tile. Here are the options we've considered:
1. Putting down 2 layers of 5/8 inch plywood. Using a waterproof roll on "paint" (for lack of a better word) Over which we'd put down Schluter Ditra, and then the tiles.
2. Again using 2 layers of 5/8 plywood, Using the roll on water proofing, over which we would set the tiles using kerabond and keralastic.
We are having a hard time finding out exactly which would be best for our scenario, so we'd love your input. Thanks!
We know that we want to use porcelain tile, (we have found a great 24x24 tile, that looks and feels very much like slate.) The plan is to put the tile inside a cedar trim on our outdoor deck 12' in the air. We understand that the joists need to be closely centered in order to have a structure that doesn't move a lot. So we're good with the actual structure. We just aren't sure how to lay the tile. Here are the options we've considered:
1. Putting down 2 layers of 5/8 inch plywood. Using a waterproof roll on "paint" (for lack of a better word) Over which we'd put down Schluter Ditra, and then the tiles.
2. Again using 2 layers of 5/8 plywood, Using the roll on water proofing, over which we would set the tiles using kerabond and keralastic.
We are having a hard time finding out exactly which would be best for our scenario, so we'd love your input. Thanks!