Moved house not long ago and now working my round the house removing traces of the previous owner's questionable taste!
I'm onto doing the bathroom now - plan is to replace the toilet, sink and tiled floors. Bath to remain (for now).
I've removed as much tiles as I can so the sink and toilet are still functional. Problem now seems to be removing the grout / adhesive from the back of the old tiles from the floorboards. Some of it has come up but there are sections that are absolutely refusing to budge - have tried a chisel, scrapers, a Bosch PFM 180E tool and I'm getting nowhere fast.
Thickness of the old grout varies from 1mm to 3mm at the worst parts but I could probably reduce this down to between 1 and 2mm.
Photos of the offending room below:
General view of bathroom.
Worst looking area (around 3mm thick)
I have 600 x 600 x 9thk Porcelain tiles which I plan to lay down.
Floor area to be covered isn't spectacularly huge either, only 1500 x 1700.
Question I have is would I get away with fixing 6mm plyboard over the floorboards and the existing grout / adhesive then laying the 600mm tiles on top or would there likely be too much flex and movement?
This existing grout / adhesive really is a pain to shift and the only other option I can think of (which is a bit extreme) is to remove the existing floorboards completely and starting from scratch.
Your thoughts and opinions much appreciated.
Pie
