tile on tile - Tile Advice

[georgetknight]

doing a bathroom tommorow tile on tile all tiles are fixed well on the walls what would you recommend cleaning them with to de grease them before priming and also what do you use for scoring them any help would be great


cheers

 

[Varley]

Sugar soap is great for cleaning grease and grime off, you can get it from most supermarkets like ASDA etc. As for scoring the existing tiles just something rough, steel wool, half a brick anything you can lay your hands on that is tough enough to score the tile.

 

[DHTiling]

Sugar soap is great for cleaning grease and grime off, you can get it from most supermarkets like ASDA etc. As for scoring the existing tiles just something rough, steel wool, half a brick anything you can lay your hands on that is tough enough to score the tile.

As varley sez sugar soap is spot on, dont know wot size tile you are re-tiling in but remember to take into account the weight of both lots of tiles on the origonal substrate, can it handle it... dave...

 

[wivers]

Good luck with the job mate. I did a tile on tile job about 2 months ago, all went well apart from the previous tiles were not put up very well around the window and left lips erevywhere which slowed me down a tad. Listen to the lads above and you'll be fine.

 

[GazTech]

doing a bathroom tommorow tile on tile all tiles are fixed well on the walls what would you recommend cleaning them with to de grease them before priming and also what do you use for scoring them any help would be great


cheers

No priming needed George,no roughing up of the tile,only flash liquid with brillo and BAL white star....job done:wink_smile:

 

[reaper72]

As long as the tiles are not greasy,SONTEX ACRYLLIC will do the job-some of our showroom displays have three layers of tiles on a plasterboard wall!

 

[reaper72]

As long as the tiles aren't porcelain!