I have a room with thermoplastic tiles on a concrete floor. 1970s build so tiles almost certainly contain some asbestos. The tiles are quite brittle now - but there is only minor damage in a few places around the edges of the room. Otherwise they provide a nice flat sealed surface. So I was thinking of laying cork tiles directly on top of them.
Don't really fancy taking up all the tiles given the likely asbestos content. And if I took them up I'd need some sort of underlay between the concrete floor and the cork tiles anyway - so these seem as good as anything.
- Anyone forsee any problems with this?
- In years to come if I wanted to take up the cork tiles anyone care to predict what might happen? Would the bond between the cork tiles and the thermoplastic tiles be likely to be stronger than the aged bond between the old tiles and the concrete? I'm thinking it might turn out to be possible to prize up the old thermoplastic tiles now bonded to cork above them (surely easier than removing cork tiles directly).
Don't really fancy taking up all the tiles given the likely asbestos content. And if I took them up I'd need some sort of underlay between the concrete floor and the cork tiles anyway - so these seem as good as anything.
- Anyone forsee any problems with this?
- In years to come if I wanted to take up the cork tiles anyone care to predict what might happen? Would the bond between the cork tiles and the thermoplastic tiles be likely to be stronger than the aged bond between the old tiles and the concrete? I'm thinking it might turn out to be possible to prize up the old thermoplastic tiles now bonded to cork above them (surely easier than removing cork tiles directly).
