TO RE-TILE OR NOT TO RE-TILE - THAT IS THE QUESTION

[royaloakcarpentry]

I always used to laugh about the non use of spacers on floors and wall tiles up to a certain size.

With the wall tiles if they are going onto a tubbed adhesive then they don't slip much and 5 minutes after putting them up he moves them again. So he has a rhythm going of tiles up check, more tiles, check, more tiles and check.

His work has always looked spot on to the eye, even when he has tiled from ceiling down where he knew the ceiling was bang on level because I put it up. We have a few tilers doing stuff for us and he is by far the quickest and the best.

last job for me, he came in the evening and we were 15 tiles short. So that left a return to tile, which I did next day. I used spacers and everything lined up bang on in the internal and external corners that he had done the previous evening. That is when I stopped laughing about not using spacers. That job was 4M2, work top to underside of wall units, window reveal, 13 sockets to a U shaped kitchen. That took him 2 and a half hours to put them up.

Just two pics of the last one he did for me. Not the entire kitchen but probably 70% of it. Would take me a bit more than 2 and a half hours to get those up pmsl................well, ok a lot longer.

[marc1106]

OP

ok the reason you shouldnt tile over tile is 2 fold,

1 -you dont know for certain that theres 100% bond on the existing!!!!!! ive removed tiles that literally had the grout holding em in place!

2 -your more than likley gonna exceed your weight per metre rules!

so regardless of what adhesive you use and how it sets this is why you shouldnt tile over existing.
PS it can also make the room smaller

[royaloakcarpentry]

marc1106...............................You must admit though, tiles that are literally held up by the grout are a pure pleasure to remove when doing a refurb lol. had one like that last year. Only took 2 hours to strip and bag up about 30m and the walls were left spotless too, so no making good. Happy days.

On the other hand I finished a bathroom the other week which had been overtiled and they were right pigs to get off. Couldn't budge the top layer, had to do the two layers in one along with the plasterboard.

Even based on the last bathroom, still wouldn't recommend it though.

[Mooncat]

Tiles fixed to painted, skimmed walls fall off very easily if you look at them hard.