Tiling an uneven floor

[Richard]

Hi

I had a very uneven hallway after I removed our cupboard from underneath the stairs. The hallway has old victorian style tiles on the floor, quite small probably 4"x4" and in the cupbard were chunky what I think are quarry tiles

I managed to remove some of the chunky quarry tiles which were throwing the level right off and the remaining tiles (chunky and small)are pretty much level now. However I have an area where the old chunky tiles which I removed used to be which I need to bring up to level with the rest of the floor. What is the best and easiest way to do this?

Also underneath some of the tiles it looks as though they have been laid directly on to the ground (damp soil) is this possible and if so how? my house is Victorian and has some suspended wooden floors and some concrete floors.

I want to if possible just lay some new tiles over the top of the existing tiles, is this a wise idea or should I really remove all of the old tiles, what if I do this and it is soil underneath? should I lay a concrete base??

Any help or advice most welcome!

Cheers

Richard

[The Natural Philosopher]

Levelling compound, or, if rtetiling, thick bed of stiffly mixed rapid set cement.

Yes. Just lay them on the ground?

my house is Victorian and has some suspended wooden floors and

Ideally you would strip it all up, lay a concrete base, put down damp proof memmbrane and then re-screed it and then think about tiling it :-)

If damp is not a huge worry for you, just levell it all off with levelling compund, and tile itr.

[Richard]

the depth required to fill is about 1.5 inch and in some places will be over soil, still ok?

when you say leveling compound is it that stuff you can simply poor in and drys looking like slate or bitumen? After I ripped up the old laminate flooring to reveal the old tiles there were some points which had this stuff over, I guess this was some kind of levelling compound. I chipped it all away thinking I was going to restore the tiles!

I will be plasterboarding the underneath of the stairs and skimming it (Well I wont be, my plasterer will) how should I handle the tile and plaster meeting point are there kind of kick boards available to use? do you have any suggestions?

Thanks for your repsonse

Cheers

Richard

[Brett Jackson]

Just done my kitchen and put a row of floor tiles vertically to meet the wall. It looks quite good and you can probably use some standard tile edging strip along the top.

I think you have to be careful to make sure the plaster doesn't go right to the floor though as depending on your construction you may bridge the damp proof course.