Tiling Over Vinyl Glue

The black adhesive is called cutback and i installed ceramic tile over it without difficulty.

Tiling over vinyl glue.

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. You can t tile over old carpet glue but it s not hard to remove carpet adhesive before tiling. 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. 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 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. But now that you have ripped up the old carpet you ve got a sticky situation. Am i ok to scrape off any high points and tile down onto it using the norcros flexible adhesive after priming with sbr.

You should be able to lay tile or marble over the linoleum. Replacing carpet with tile can give your home an exciting new look. You want to scrape off as much as possible using a razor scraper. The original flooring was vinyl over concrete.