Sample Sentences & Example Usage. 1  Stephen Bolinder: Every time I heard the door chime, my heart stopped. 2  Logan Pearsall Smith: There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.
While you can lay tile directly over a concrete slab using thin-set adhesive, donât make the mistake of applying tile directly to a plywood subfloor. No matter how firm the subfloor; the plywood will expand and contract at a different rate as the tile, causing cracks to develop in the grout lines or tiles over time.
Concrete or mortar on plywood I overheard a mason say that you never want to put a stone floor with mortar or concrete directly onto a plywood sub. You always use backer board first. I've seen hundreds of stone/tile floors installed directly on plywood as long as the mortar below the stone was at least 1-1/2 thick for support (dry pack or the like.)