Re-tiling tiled worktop

[donrkebab]

I want to retile my ceramic tiled kitchen worktop. My intention is to use some type of board (mdf?) screw fixed through the existing and re-tile on top.

What would be the best type of board? and whats the thinnest thickness reccommended? Is it a viable plan?

 

[1john]

You couldn't use anything worse than MDF really. I presume your not keen on removing the existing tiles, in which case you could tile directly on the existing ones, give them a sugar soap clean and a wipe over with some solvent. You may need longer screws for the sockets and switches.

 

[flameport]

I want to retile my ceramic tiled kitchen worktop.

As in flat horizontal surface that food is prepared on?
Adding any thickness of tiles, boards or whatever will leave you with the problem of how to finish the edges. Plus, tiled worktops are nasty, unhygienic things unless done with epoxy grout, and even then are still hideous relics from the 1980s.

Realistically it's time to replace the whole worktop with something else.

 

[1john]

Good spot there, you know what they say about assumption, there was me presuming the OP was talking about splash-backs!

 

[foxhole]

Most people mistake my tiles worktop for a granite, but then most people are blind.

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• foxhole
• 11 Nov 2008
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