On Oct 13, 6:17*pm, KLS wrote:
On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:25:03 -0700 (PDT), N8N
wrote:

...to put down tile?

This doesn't apply to you as you've gone past the point of no return:
I just wanted to post my wonderful, albeit ugly, experience with those
great big 24x24 soft foam interlocking pieces that are supposed to be
used for kids. *A neighbor was throwing out a set, and I rescued them
and put them on my laundry room floor. *Joy! *A soft comfortable floor
surface to stand on that's not slippery and doesn't care about water!

Actually i've seen those at Harbor Freight and thought about picking
some up. I wouldn't say "point of no return" - the nasty old tile
needed to go anyway. I now have a nice-ish bare concrete floor, which
is way better than what I started with, or I can go all out and cover
it with something if I choose to make more work for myself.

At least I can *clean* the floor now, as opposed to before, where
you'd just push the dirt around into the spaces between the tiles.
And you could never tell if you had a water leak until it was serious,
and if you saw water, you could never tell where it was coming from
because it'd run underneath the tiles to the low spot and bubble up
there. (that was really the main impetus behind this... the previous
owners "never had any water in the basement" but I seem to have found
tons of little drippy things to fix.)

nate