Hi
I have a bungalow built in 1980. The whole floor is covered in good quality vinyl or linoleum floor tiles. I guess that they are more likely, given their age, to be linoleum and may be made by Marley? This is a guess however.
I am completing the renovation and am now needing to renovate...
Many thanks routerkid!! Your message was received just as my builders were laying out a levelling compound to take F.Ball's F75 (X 2) over which will be put a primer then finally an ardex levelling compound that can take cork floor tiles.
Your route would have saved the time and money its...
I did follow this advice but may consider another option....my new neighbours lifted their asphalt floor and laid a new dpm then compound....then solid wood floor. I am still thinking of cork tiles.....so my builders have suggested lifting the asphalt then applying two coats of bitumen as a dpm...
Sent an email enquiry to F Ball as suggested and Sharon from their office phoned back quickly and advised that if the bitumen in actually asphalt (some 10 -20 cm thick) then, with further prep tiles can be overlaid. If it is bitumen glue then it needs to be removed. I need to double-check but I...
I've just bought a house built in 1962 and discovered that it has a black (bitumen?) damp proof membrane laid over a concrete base and covering the entire ground floor. I would like to lay decorative cork tiles throughout but wonder what leveling compound I should use before laying the cork...