Tiling Over Vinyl Glue

But now that you have ripped up the old carpet you ve got a sticky situation.

Tiling over vinyl glue. You want to scrape off as much as possible using a razor scraper. The old vinyl tile you describe sounds like vct vinyl composition tile and it is tough stuff. You can t tile over old carpet glue but it s not hard to remove carpet adhesive before tiling. The black adhesive is called cutback and i installed ceramic tile over it without difficulty.

Scrub your vinyl floor with a. Hi i m laying 300mm x 300mm porcelain tiles. The original flooring was vinyl over concrete. 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. You should be able to lay tile or marble over the linoleum. 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. 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.