Tiling Over Vinyl Glue

No adhesive will stick to dirt and grease and even very small bits of dust or debris can cause a flaw in the way your vinyl tile adheres to the existing vinyl floor.

Tiling over vinyl glue.

The stuff has come up nicely but leaving a thin layer of soft and sticky glue that looks a lot like evostik on top of the concrete. Scrub your vinyl floor with a. Hi i m laying 300mm x 300mm porcelain tiles. Hi all i m going to put ceramic tiles down over a concrete floor which has previously had clear looking vinyl flooring glued down onto it as can be seen in the attachment.

As with laying tile over vinyl as long as the subfloor and joists provide a firm foundation the linoleum is well glued down in good shape and clean. The original flooring was vinyl over concrete. You can t tile over old carpet glue but it s not hard to remove carpet adhesive before tiling. But now that you have ripped up the old carpet you ve got a sticky situation.

You should be able to lay tile or marble over the linoleum. Am i ok to scrape off any high points and tile down onto it using the norcros flexible adhesive after priming with sbr. Don t worry it looks a lot worse than it is. The old vinyl tile you describe sounds like vct vinyl composition tile and it is tough stuff.