Tiling over old quarry tiles (floor)

saxonrosecliff

We have a very small porch by our front door. Its time to replace the old carpet that was down. I've pulled it up and underneath are old non-shiny (so probably porous) quarry tiles which are heavily stained and cracked but are solid (whenever they have cracked a previous owner seems to have filled the gaps giving a crazy paving effect!). There is also a strip of concrete (I think) where they have obviously filled the gap between the door frame and the tiles.

What we would like to do is tile over the old tiles. Presumably we could use any type of floor tile but my main question is what adhesive do we use. As I said its a very small area - 3ft by 3ft approximate and my main question is what sort of adhesive do we use.

Mr_Ted

Ummmm floor tile adhesive maybe?

spacey2012

Floor an wall tilers love telling people how to do their job, someone will be along with a step by step guide, in between posting in the debt section.

saxonrosecliff

Mr_Ted wrote: »

Ummmm floor tile adhesive maybe?

I kind of thought tile adhesive would be ideal but was wondering which sort.

spacey2012 wrote: »

Floor an wall tilers love telling people how to do their job, someone will be along with a step by step guide, in between posting in the debt section.

Thank you for your "helpful" advice. I've been let down by two floor tilers already and am not prepared to waste any more time getting quotes and waiting for professionals to not turn up. Plus I was under the impression that this was a DIY forum on a moneysaving website.

ValHaller

saxonrosecliff wrote: »

Thank you for your "helpful" advice. I've been let down by two floor tilers already and am not prepared to waste any more time getting quotes and waiting for professionals to not turn up. Plus I was under the impression that this was a DIY forum on a moneysaving website.

Spacey was making a cruelly funny comment about waiting for a tiler to post here and not suggesting that you get quotes.

suzy_g

bump.. I have the problem too and hope someone will have some advise.

sutwam

Sorry, I am not a tiler.

Have you thought of contacting a tile shop or adhesive manufacturer direct, they might say you can simply tile on top and recommend an adhesive and tell you if you would need to use a primer or not.

Leif

I have a porch, 1.5m by 1.5m, and I removed the existing tiles, and then put down new porcelain tiles with cement based adhesive and standard grout. Removing the tiles was easy, removing the ashesive (no idea what it was, whitish and hard) was a pain.

I am not a tiler, but I suspect you could lift the quarry tiles, and then remove the adhesive, or if that is hard, put down a thin layer of levelling compound and then re-tile.

Surely you want a cement based floor tile adhesive. Are there other kinds?

Hopefully a tiler will turn up ...

premkit

For such a small area any floor tile adhesive will be ok dependent on the tiles you choose, the large tiles need a flexible adhesive.
make sure you pick a tile that has a good grip when wet for a porch.
good adhesive brands, bal, mappi, dunlop, webber.

keystone

You must get themn scrupulously clean (ie of dirt and old polish) first before you consider tiling over the top. Once done use a bagged addy suitable for laying porcelain tiles.

I think I'd be ripping them up myself though.

Cheers

jazyasin

use a flexible floor tile adhesive, there are 2 types 1 for wooden floors and 1 for concrete use the concrete one. Hope this helps.