Levels and supports subfloor with as little as 1/16” elevation change!

I used this system to tile over a formica counter and it worked great! This is a high quality reinforcing paper that takes the thinset really nice. The glue is very sticky and works well. It does bleed through in places but it's not an issue. I let things dry before putting on the thinset but evidently that's not necessary. Once the thinset drys, you would think you are ready to tile over concrete. Just a nice system if you don't want to raise the hight of the old counter. In some instances, I could see using the Taffy glue to glue down 1/4 hardibacker instead of this paper but it's a great product none the less and I can see other applications for it.

I watched the youtube videos of this being done by I believe the person who developed it. I used this after removing one layer of vinyl flooring only to find another thinner one piece under that. I was concerned that I was going to have issues removing it so decided to use the Tavy method. Again watched the video which is done in a perfect demo environment. Not on the floor and they are covering a very small area. The reality is when you are doing a large area on the floor and you are reaching and this roll of paper keeps rolling up on the glue it becomes a messy job. I had glue on both sides of the paper, my clothes, arms, legs, etc. Probably would be much easier if these were flat 2' x 3' sheets of skin rather than one big roll. In the end I am quite certain removing that piece of vinyl and doing the job over the concrete and not using this method would have been easier. When I do a similar job in laundry room over plywood, I will go the cement board route.

This is a great product. Use the Tavy 007 adhesive, follow the directions. It can get a bit messy so I would advise wearing some disposable gloves and have mineral spirits for clean up. The system saved me a lot time and my tile project turned out great.

I was a skeptic, but not anymore. I used the product as directed and it gave me a great base over vinyl flooring. The product did everything it was supposed to, all though tough to find really detailed instructions . I wouldn't recommend it to a novice DYI person but what an alternative for a contractor if you don't want to add a bunch of height to a tile floor. No cement board ! Warning the glue is messy, wear gloves when cutting paper (maybe contains fiberglass)

I thought this stuff was a bit expensive, but it really did go down easy and worked well. It is easy to trim and rolls out nicely. The end of the roll has a lot of curl and you may need to put something on it to keep it from pulling up until the glue takes hold. I used a good quality glue so this wasn't much of an issue. I've used paper products that didn't curl as much, but I much prefer this product when it comes time to thinset your tile down. I laid around 500sqft of tavertine. Thinset bonded nicely to this stuff. I didn't use the Tavy Skin adhesive. I went with Dap 00142 Weldwood Multi-Purpose Floor Adhesive, Gallon. It worked really well. It is easy to spread and bonds nicely. I did have a problem with the shipping of the adhesive. Several of the containers leaked during shipment, what a mess.

We moved into a house where most of the first floor had ceramic tile. Unfortunately the tiling job done throughout the house was extremely poor. The tile was set over 3/4 plywood and in places the grout had cracked or the tile had cracked from where the underlying floor had "moved" from theweak subflooring the tile was placed over. It was particularly bad in a small laundry room. I suspect at some point there had been a leak from the washing machine. The tile in this room would literally crunch as you walked over it and the grout was in bad shape. I knew at some point I would have to redo the flooring job over the whole first floor, but for now I Just wanted to repair the existing laundry room. I pulled up the tile from the floor quite easily but now I had a quandry, in order to keep the floor the same level as the rest of the house, I would need to firm up the sub floor with some sort of underlayment. the thinnest stuff I could find would have just raised the floor too high. There were a couple of products on the market that would have produced an underlayment that would not add a noticeable difference to the floor height. I settled on the Tavy system because it was available through Amazon and appeared to do what I would need it too.My only complaint would be that the system makes a point on the website of stating what your sub flooring should consist of. If I could get my subflooring to what was needed, I wouldn't need to use this system.I purchased the glue and the thin skin, throughly sanded the floor and cleaned up the dust. The glue was fairly messy to apply but I followed the instructions exactly and set up a way to clean my tools after the glue was apllied. The thin-skin was like a thick paper and was very easy to work with. I was able to dry cut the skin, apply the glue and smooth out any bubbles quite easily. I let the stuff dry for a few days before applying the ceramic tile (actually over a week). One thing I did notice while using this system, is that exposed glue seems to remain somewhat tacky. Even weeks later, an exposed area near a vent still showed signs of stickiness. I don't know if this is by design or not. Where the skin contacted the glue, the skin did seem to get quite hard so I didn't worry too much about it. I applied a flexible this set mortar layer over the top of the thin-skin and let it dry.I dry cut my tile and layed it out and applied the adheisve. I decided to go with a more expensive adhesive that had a little give in it since I knew my subflorring was not as good as I wanted it to be. I used FlexBond Gray 50 lb. Fortified Thin-Set Mortar from Home Depot. I applied the tile and adhesive as I normally did. The surface was easy to work with. I used a 3/8 notch trowel and made sure the surface was level and low enough to not make a noticeable difference from the existing tile still in place from a connectiing other room. The whole tiling process from here was pretty normal from here on out.I completed the grouting and everything looked great. There was no noticeable difference in tile height from the existing room which I did not touch to the laundry room which had the tile replaced. In fact it looked like it had always been there from the beginning. It has been over six months since I did this project and the floor is holding up nicely. We moved in the washer and dryer and the room gets a lot of traffic since my garage is also connected to it. There is no noticeable give to the floor and the crunch of the old tile is gone. I don't know how long this repair will last but for now I'm quite happy with this system. It did what I needed it to do and was fairly easy to work with.My only worry going forward is how hard it will be to remove once I'm able to replace the flooring on the whole first floor. I'm not looking at doing that project anytime soon but when I do, I will try to update this review.UPDATE (06/11/2023): 9 years since I did the repair with this system and it has been nothing but solid. No cracks in the grout or tile, no give in the floor. I got everything I was hoping for from this system.

Along with the glue, this application is a bit tedious and messy, but compared to the hassle and dust backerboard, it's a true breeze. Installed in an 8'x8' bathroom (slab) in a couple hours after work, skimcoated the next evening, then started tiling the next. I have a hard time believing this is a substitute for mortar and backerboard on a wood subfloor application where flexing might be an issue, but supposedly this stuff does the trick. Definitely planning to use again!