Tips for me to Vinyl Tile my kitchen floor

At the moment my kitchen is vinyl sheeting and I have cut a cross, in the corner, and underneath it is thermoplastic tiles. Looks like it was flat lay vinyl sheeting just glued at the edges. So I will be ripping this vinyl up and the tackling the surface below and then laying the vinyl tiles. I wondered if anyone has done this and what I need to look out for? Yes I know Vinyl tiles may not be the ideal choice but doing the place up on a budget to let out.

So hoping I can take up just the vinyl sheet and lay on the thermoplastic tiles?

Ken

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Ken
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You'll likely be able to stick them direct to the thermoplastic ones if the latter are in good nick, well stuck, and clean of any surface grease/dirt.

My house has plain thermoplastic tiles stuck to the concrete floor by the builder all over the ground floor (using a nasty bitumen like adhesive you really don't want to try and get up anyway!) and they are dead flat and stable in all but a few little places.

With it being a kitchen, check for damaged thermoplastic tiles under appliances though - most of mine had lifted/broken up there - and also check around the edges where they can also break up if the floor underneath has imperfections. Filler will fix any minor problems or levelling compound/new tiles* larger ones - and this should give you a good surface to stick your vinyl tiles onto.

  • Got a pack of thermoplastic tiles from DIY shed which were of exactly the correct thickness and size to replace entire damaged tiles.

HTH Midge.

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Midge

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