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Hello all,
First of all, I'm not a tiler but I have a few questions relating to flooring so I hope you don't mind me asking here. If you know of a better place for my question to be asked please do let me know.
So... the ground floor of my house has what I believe to be an ashphalt sub-floor and appears to be about 12mm thick. In the kitchen on top of the ashphalt are vinyl floor tiles, stuck directly on.
The ashphalt in the kitchen has begun to break up and crack, and has cracked the vinyl tiles with it. It’s only happening in the kitchen. The house was built in 1988 and had one lady owner until I bought it a couple of years ago. I’ve noticed this happening gradually since I moved in (I didn’t see it when buying at there was lino down) I would guess that the tiles are the original flooring, however I don’t know for sure.
Has anyone any ideas why this might be happening? Any ideas would be welcome.
What would be the best thing to do, remove and replace with what is there now or is there a better method available?
I know little about flooring other than that the ashphalt acts as a damp proof membrane... and that there’s concrete below it. I wouldn’t be doing any of the repair work btw...
Again any help would be appreciated.
Thanks all
First of all, I'm not a tiler but I have a few questions relating to flooring so I hope you don't mind me asking here. If you know of a better place for my question to be asked please do let me know.
So... the ground floor of my house has what I believe to be an ashphalt sub-floor and appears to be about 12mm thick. In the kitchen on top of the ashphalt are vinyl floor tiles, stuck directly on.
The ashphalt in the kitchen has begun to break up and crack, and has cracked the vinyl tiles with it. It’s only happening in the kitchen. The house was built in 1988 and had one lady owner until I bought it a couple of years ago. I’ve noticed this happening gradually since I moved in (I didn’t see it when buying at there was lino down) I would guess that the tiles are the original flooring, however I don’t know for sure.
Has anyone any ideas why this might be happening? Any ideas would be welcome.
What would be the best thing to do, remove and replace with what is there now or is there a better method available?
I know little about flooring other than that the ashphalt acts as a damp proof membrane... and that there’s concrete below it. I wouldn’t be doing any of the repair work btw...
Again any help would be appreciated.
Thanks all