Substrate for tile worktop
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martyn94
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Substrate for tile worktop
This question could have gone in a dozen places, but I'll try it here. I'm about to fit myself a kitchen plus worktop and splashback. The most successful worktop I have done was a few years ago at my sister's gaff in Australia, laying 60cm floor tiles on a base made from fibre-reinforced cement sheet (about 18mm thick from memory). It was heavy and expensive and a pig to make cut-outs in, but very much stronger, more stable, waterproof etc than any alternative I know.
My problem is that I cannot remember the proper description even in Australian, and have drawn a blank after some googling in french. Any ideas for what it's called, and where I could get it from (preferably delivered, and sliced up a bit).
If anyone knows where to get nice, plainish, white/grey/greigish 60cm floor tiles (with a satinish finish) that would be a bonus.
My problem is that I cannot remember the proper description even in Australian, and have drawn a blank after some googling in french. Any ideas for what it's called, and where I could get it from (preferably delivered, and sliced up a bit).
If anyone knows where to get nice, plainish, white/grey/greigish 60cm floor tiles (with a satinish finish) that would be a bonus.