Posted: 5/6/2012 5:41:25 PM EDT
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So I got this tile in my bathroom and has been down about 8 years.
Doing a total remodel on the room with Ceramic tile and this stuff is stuck down like it is part of the concrete slab. Would I be OK by striping the shine off of it and laying the new tile over it???? |
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So I got this tile in my bathroom and has been down about 8 years. Doing a total remodel on the room with Ceramic tile and this stuff is stuck down like it is part of the concrete slab. Would I be OK by striping the shine off of it and laying the new tile over it???? what is the sitrep at the door threshold? what are you going to do with the extra ~1/2" of bathroom tile height? what about at the closet flange, can you bring that up to meet the bottom of the toilet? ar-jedi |
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The hall outside the room is carpeted so the height is not an issue.
Here is a pic of the flooring that is installed now. It is that old school VCT and is about 1/8 inch thick. I know the toilet mount will need to come up or the tile cut to fit around it. 
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ok now we are on the same page.
you want to put new ceramic tile over previously installed VCT. you forgot the latter part in your OP. 
you had better be 1000% sure that the VCT is going stay put or you are going to hate your life down the road. depending on the age of the adhesive, the underlay, and the traffic pattern, the VCT may come up easily or painfully, and not necessarily either –– sections could be easy, others not so much. ar-jedi |
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How large is the bathroom?
If it were me, I'd rip up the old vinyl tiles. Rent or borrow an SDS hammer drill (one with just a hammer feature) and use it with a spade bit to scrape up the old tiles and adhesive. Then use a fortified/modified thinset (usually it's the white stuff at HD/Lowe's to ensure the new tiles get good adhesion with the slab. |
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How large is the bathroom? If it were me, I'd rip up the old vinyl tiles. Rent or borrow an SDS hammer drill (one with just a hammer feature) and use it with a spade bit to scrape up the old tiles and adhesive. Then use a fortified/modified thinset (usually it's the white stuff at HD/Lowe's to ensure the new tiles get good adhesion with the slab. you can rent a linoleum remover from home depot for about 50 bucks. Its a giant vibrating razorblade with a motor on it with wheels that you scoot along the floor and it cuts up the linoleum. You can also get an SDS hammer or a jack hammer from home depot for 50 bucks, or buy a 1" sds rotary hammer drill from harbor freight for 55 bucks or if you have a big ass air compressor at home for $100 at harbor freight you can get a long reach air scraper tool. I removed about sq ft of linoleum and ceramic tile and thinset with it at an investment house that im working on this month. Getting that stuff off the slab will be a hell of a lot easier if you just use the right tools. |
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How large is the bathroom? If it were me, I'd rip up the old vinyl tiles. Rent or borrow an SDS hammer drill (one with just a hammer feature) and use it with a spade bit to scrape up the old tiles and adhesive. Then use a fortified/modified thinset (usually it's the white stuff at HD/Lowe's to ensure the new tiles get good adhesion with the slab. It is a very small room what you see in the pic is 90% of the floor in the room. That's why I wanted to just leave it down. 6'x 38" and a bit wider where the toilet is located. |