Scraping old sheet vinyl off of tile floor
Gail Gemberling
7 years ago
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Comments (2)In short, no. Don't waste your time or money. Flooring can't be any better than what is under it, and you have an uneven sub floor and (I suspect from the peeling around the toilet) some long-standing leaks. If you add self-stick tile to the top, you just add to the mess that is there....See Moreporcelain tile directly over old vinyl tile, with radiant heat?
Comments (4)I would peel up whatever vinyl sheets are there. Then scrape the rest with a scraper. Tile needs a good substrate or the tile could crack, your grout break up, or tiles become loose. I would use something like Schluter-DITRA (Mike Holmes uses it constantly) orange waffle. I used a blue mat I found in the tile section of HD. It's intended to quiet tile for upstairs flooring, but it had a sticky tar like backing that made it ideal for laying over old laminate that wouldn't come up. Here is a link that might be useful: Schluter-DITRA orange waffle...See MoreLaundry room flooring... vinyl sheet or tile?
Comments (5)I went through a period of time where I thought I didn't like sheet vinyl. Now, as I've gotten older and wiser, I'm really coming back around to it. I have tile in several areas and I will not personally ever install it in any house of mine again. It's so stinking hard to stand on, and it's a major PITA to rip up when you want to change it out again down the road. I currently have tile I have come to hate in a bathroom because I just can't work up the effort to chip it out and re-level up the floor so we can put down something else. Tile has become my version of wall paper. It's one of those things that sounds good at the time - but it's more hard to get out of than a bad marriage when you've finally had enough of it....See MoreKitchen floor, old vinyl tile
Comments (5)Whether you paint it or clean it up and make it look 'pretty' once more it doesn't matter. Either way you need to get the OLD GUNK off of the vinyl. If you paint it now, it will peel/adhesion failure before you have time to list it...and then you will be in a real pickle. Using a buffer and a chemical stripper is totally normal for vinyl tile...regardless of it's asbestos content (or lack thereof). You can do a quick 'deep clean' to see how good this can get. You can take a PILE of clean white cotton cloths, a spray bottle full of Windex Original formula and some time. You can soak a 2ft x 2ft area with the Windex. Let it sit for about 60 seconds. Then wipe it up with a clean cloth. Check the cloth. It should have so much gunk on it that it appears brown/orange/yellow. Excellent! Now we are getting somewhere. Soak the spot again and let it sit for 30 seconds. Wipe it up with a NEW CLOTH. Check the cloth. It should only be 1/2 as bad as the first cloth. Now you mist the spot, let it sit for a few seconds and then wipe up again with a new cloth. Keep doing this until the cloth comes back 'damp' looking (maybe even a little blue because of the windex colour). Now you know how MUCH GUNK is on that floor. You can do this 2ft x 2ft cleaning (on hands and knees) if you wish. I would purchase a gallon of the Windex and I would sacrifice several sets of cotton sheets for this job. It can be done for the price of a gallon of Windex and a weekend of your time (on your hands and knees). Now you are ready to paint. Or leave it be. Then again a sheet of new vinyl plank would do just fine. You are trying to cover up cr@p with more cr@p so you might as well give the next homeowner something they can get 5-10 years out of...not just 1-2 years. Even with the sheet of vinyl, you need a clean floor. Which means a weekend with Windex is in your future....See MoreBev
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