Debbie
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Hello, I live in southern Spain in a top floor penthouse apartment (direct sun most of day) with a large outside terrace (600 square ft). The terrace is currently tiled but as the property is now 18 years old, some of the tiles are loose and cracked. My initial idea was to just remove the old tiles and replace with new tiles. I had 3 quotes for this work (two builders suggested tiling on top to save money and the third said it was necessary to remove the old tiles and replace with new ones). As you can imagine, it isn't cheap to do this work on such a large area so I decided to take some time to think about it. As we are currently on full lockdown in Spain, I have spent more time on the terrace than usual and yesterday it occurred to me that perhaps there were other options to consider apart from tiles, for example, working with the original concrete below the tiles and perhaps put a finish over the top of it. I really dislike the current tiles so I don't want to try to keep them/repatch, etc. I am very inexperienced in this area so would really appreciate any advice on this. Thank you.