harry
wibbled on Thursday 29 July 2010 07:52

On 28 July, 19:36, "AL_z" wrote:
harry wrote in news:c26c08ba-6bd0-4868-af47-
:



PVA is the way to go as others have said. However I have never had
much luck with self adhesive vinyl tiles, they have come up in a few
months esp. where walked on. There are tiles available with no glue,
you stick them down with Evostick or similar rubber based glue.
Cheaper too and more colours to choose from.

Thanks - I'll look for those. I do have a stack of self-adhesive tiles
which I bought for about 25p each, but if I can get a better quality tile
without the self-adhesive, I may be interested.

Al

The problem with the PVA method is when you wet the floor with it, the
timber swells and becomes rough & the tiles don't stick.

I went over my chip floor with 2 coats of ronseal exterior woodstain (had it
lying around, substitute any varnishy stuff of your choice).

That soaked in, firemed up and waterproofed the surface and gave a dust free
skin for the tiles to stick to. Only on lifted slightly and that got evo-
stik'd back and stayed down.

I wouldn't use PVA either - not stable in the presence of water.

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