Staircase bottom step

Hi,

I am doing porcelain tiling to ground floor after handover. My builder is asking if the tiler is gluing the tiles or doing sand cement. I checked with few tiles and they say it depends on the slab. Does anyone has more information on this?

Regards

Correct, it depends on your footings and slab
Has you builder indicated what's required and the Cost?
More info required
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Chris

Hi Chris,

My builder is just asking if my tiler will glue the tiles straight to the concrete or will they lay the sand cement bed before laying the tiles. The builder said that they need this information for the staircase bottom/first step gap with the concrete.

Regards
Ish

What type of stairs, Open Riser Stairs?
Cheers
Chris

They are not open risers. But normal stairs something like below image

Gluing is easier and cheaper but it depends on the quality of slab/footings
alternatively laying a sand cement base throughout may yield a better finish for highly glossed Tiles
Where you may notice levelling variances in the slab.
the concretor will need to make allowances 20-30mm


Your opions are
1. Butt up the tile to the riser
2.Screed the whole floor have the tile run under ie open tread
3.Use a quad trim to cover
Thanks for the photo as it helps others
hth
Chris

Thanks a lot Chris for the information.

Regards
Ish