Recent content by cheekychops50

Thanks for your advice, if there's anything else you think of that i might not have asked let me know. Its hard work all this and its confusing but i dont want to spend loads of money on lovely tiles for them to "pop up". So, we can use self levelling on the quarry tiles, prime the quarry...

Can i just ask - can you use self levelling over the quarry tiles we have? or do we prime them and use something else?

Yeah we will, so we reckon strip the whole ground floor floor out? Perhaps there is only concrete not quarry tiles in the lounge and the utility room and under stairs cupboards? We have self levelling compund and the adhesive is in B&Q for £34.99 a bag, it's flexible but was for vinyl or...

Thanks GCOL, we'll give it a go! The front room is the same, but we haven't hacked that up yet, but that's like a roller coast ride, dips and bumps! So there's no way we could go over that with ceramics as it's not flat enough, unless we just put self levelling over that?

Thanks for the advice, I was worried about taking up the bitumen layer, but we've done it now! The quarry tiles immediately sweated but then dried out and it did feel colder, but hopefully if we get the right adhesive, it should be okay. You don't think i'll have a damp issue do you? Or...

Please help! We have bought a 100 year old house and want to tile our kitchen floor with porcelain tiles. After reading a few things on the site about uneven floors, concrete floors, bitumen etc, we looked at ours and thought it had Marley tiles, but it's not. We blow torched a small area and...