Tile onto tile

[Clueless2]

Customer (pensioner tight budget) wants tiles on top of existing ceramic tiles, whats the best primer/adhesive?

Thanks.

 

[mikethetile]

hack them off and make a proper job of it

its false economy , if the job fails then the money spent is wasted

welcome to tf

 

[Clueless2]

Thanks for that but he won't have it, already had that conversation.

 

[doug boardley]

if he won't let you do it right, then don't do it at all, simple really.

 

[Stewart]

As above.........

 

[Clueless2]

Useful

 

[doug boardley]

it would be less useful if we gave unprofessional opinions.

 

[Brian the Tile]

you can tile on tile the best thing for you to do is nip into your local tile shop and takethe phone number of the buckets of adhesive for the tecnical helpline they will help and advise you.

 

[doug boardley]

you can tile on tile the best thing for you to do is nip into your local tile shop and takethe phone number of the buckets of adhesive for the tecnical helpline they will help and advise you.

what about the added weight on the subsrate Brian. It will surely push it over safe load bearing.

 

[jay]

how big is the area and whats the substrate please

 

[EFC Mike]

What about Ardex D20 guys, this is touted as a tile on tile addy and has a built in primer !

 

[doug boardley]

there's plenty of addy's that will stick tile to tile, but the added weight on the substrate makes it bad practice imho.

 

[Brian the Tile]

in all my years tiling i have done this quite a lot[tile over tile] ,ther are alot of customers out there who can not afford to have the tiles taken off and walls re~plastered,times are hard enough at the moment[or is that only in wales],as isay if the old tiles are stuck solid thre will be no problem as the weight of the tiles is evenly distributed over the full walls not just in one spot.I myself would give it a guarantee never mind the adhesive companys,so as i say imo no probs.

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

Without knowing how well the existing tiles have been fixed, I think it is a gamble. A risk that I wouldn't take, sorry

 

[EFC Mike]

Hi Brian,
I understand your argument, I lost out on a job recentley due to this situation, as the existing tiles were poorly fixed, I said remove and reboard etc...customer says to expensive! In a perfect world hey!!!