when tiling an old kitchen/bathroom

[spenny]

when tiling an old kitchen/bathroom that has existing tiles on the wall or floor what do you normally reccomend to the customer?
I normally suggest tiling over the existing tiles as it is less time consuming to have to remove the tiles and prepare the wall/floor,which obviously makes the job cheaper for them, but also because it is so much easier to tile on top of the old ones.

What's you guys thoughts?

spenny

 

[medlar]

strip them off mate,patchwork plastering is easy,if ya not up to it,get someone in to do that for you.Yes it add time and money on and CAN put customers off,but i would be quite happy to lose a job,rather than fix on top of someone else work as you could not truthfully garauntee the work

 

[bigandy]

If you can tile you can patch plaster. Just mix your plaster, moisten area apply with trowel use a straight edge to square off with rest of wall.

Just use a straight edge it makes your job so much easier,practise at home take a lump hammer to the wall(the misses will forgive you eventually)and try patching it up! Am sure someone will be able to describe it more elequently than me but there you go

 

[spenny]

cheers guys

 

[cornish_crofter]

If you can tile you can patch plaster. Just mix your plaster, moisten area apply with trowel use a straight edge to square off with rest of wall.

Just use a straight edge it makes your job so much easier,practise at home take a lump hammer to the wall(the misses will forgive you eventually)and try patching it up! Am sure someone will be able to describe it more elequently than me but there you go

The plastering doesn't have to be that good if you're going to tile onto it.

I was advised by Dave here to use rapid setting plaster from wickes, or similar. Unfortunately I live and am working out in the sticks. No one stocks rapid setting plaster!

Mind you this is Cornwall. Maybe I should be looking for Drekley setting plaster