thanks for that, i've got half the floor scrubbed & scraped with sugar soap,
it seems to be getting the gunk off, another evening of scrubbing & i might
be ready to start the fun stuff.

"Scott Mills" wrote in message
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"Jed Spud" wrote in message
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Having just bought a load of floor tiles & chucked the grotty carpet
tiles
out i'm left with some v.old, but soundly fixed tiling which is fairly
level.
I plan to tile on top of this, what prep. would be best to clean off the
various bits of double sided tape, other sticky stuff, muck & gunk etc.
on
the old tiles?
Do the old tiles need anything on them to help adhesion with the new
tiles?


I've done a few of these now. Just give them a good old clean and off you
go. Use the powered adhesive - not teh ready mixed stuff its crap. I have
even used cement on a couple of occasions when I ran out of the propper
stuff and want to get the job done. They are still stuck down...