Has anyone ever heard of tiling a porch floor? The porch is built and at this point just has plywood for a floor. We are considering wood alternative decking like EON. Part of the porch is to be screened in and we would love to use these exterior octagonal tiles we have come across. From everything I can find we are out of luck because of freeze/thaw problems. Somewhere we read about a membrane that may solve our problem? Any ideas?
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Get a Tile Council of America handbook. You can order one for about ten bucks by going to their website.
Go to Schluter.com (?) and look at their products.
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I just did some repairs on an exterior tile porch. concrete pad over corrugated metal supported on steel girders. Tile layer did an poor job on the first attempt ( puddling, wrong slope direction) and put down another right over top of it. Quarry tiles with regular mortar as grout that were never sealed (until I got there). Overall, the porch held up pretty well, my repairs were fixing some blowouts due to freeze thaw of the tiles and repointing the edge, all the way around between the 2 layers of tiles. Water was getting between the 2 layers of tile and making its way to edge, where it froze and blew out the mortar.