On Oct 10, 6:06*pm, NT wrote:
On Oct 10, 1:50*pm, Stuart Noble wrote:



TonyB wrote:
I have some tiling questions ?
I'm going to lay ceramic/porcelain floor tiles in my small downstairs
cloakroom.
The house was built in the 80's, and the existing floor covering is hard
(brittle) vinyl tiles, with a hard black bitumen like adhesive onto a
concrete floor.
Can I lay the tiles onto the existing vinyl tiles or will I need to strip
the vinyl tiles and adhesive back to the concrete ? If I do this will I need
to prepare the concrete in any way before laying the new tiles ?

Thanks for any help
Tony

If by going back to the concrete you can avoid a step at the doorway,
I'd strip it all off (a lovely job). That's probably not the case
though, so I'd probably just slap them down on the vinyl. However,
choose the adhesive carefully. IME pva/acrylic sticks very well to vinyl
but cement based products may not.

The waterproof tile adhesive I used stuck remarkably well to vinyl
tiles. I'll check the brand later.

NT

Dunlop waterproof walltile adhesive, from screwfix. It took hammer,
chisel and acid to get it off some vinyl.


NT