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So Mrs A is very fed up with current kitchen floor - it's light grey tiles and with 3 dogs, shows up the dirt big time, is noisy and not v cosy. She'd like something along Kardean(?) style flooring.
I imagine digging up current tiles would a be a big job so is it possible to lay a floor on top. The kitchen work surfaces are very solidly built in so assume they can't be moved. There's 5-10mm gap between fridge/washing machine top and underneath of work surfaces, so assume that's tricky (or just butt up to them?). There's currently a 10mm 'step' on kitchen doorway to hall.
It's a quite a big area as it's a kitchen/living room knocked through. Doable?
Cheers
Yes doable but for that posh vinyl stuff you'd have to cover all the old tiles with self levelling compound, them 6mm ply then the adhesive and tiles so it'd be a fair bit higher than the old level. It's often not hard to knock old tiles up with an SDS drill or even a bolster and hammer if it's not a huge area.
We're considering the same for similar reasons but thinking of going the vinyl route. Not sure karndeen would work well on tiles...it needs a super flat surface to bond onto. Modern Lino looks just as good...maybe not as long lasting but for us its a temporary measure for a few years until we get the whole kitchen re-done.
not entirely related but I viewed a house once, and thought the kitchen floor was a bit 'bouncy'.
had a poke around in corner and there was cheap laminate flooring laid directly onto carpet....
As long as the tiles are solidly bonded with no cracks or loose/Suspect tiles, you can clean and prime them, then use a 2 part latex smoothing compound over them and then apply to that direct, no need for a ply layer as well. This will be about 6-7mm total thickness.
Even if you take them up, you’d still need the smoothing compound layer.
Exactly what we did with ours. Prime old tiles, self levelling compound then vinyl on top. Done by a local fitter and looks great. Added about 8mm thickness in total. We had to have ours done after the kitchen was fitted but the flooring guy built a dam in front of the appliances with foam tape but the kickboards cover all that.
If you're laying tiles you'll need to put down self levelling compound. This being the case I'd go to the extra effort of removing the old tiles to know that it's a job done well and not a bodge. As has been said before tiles come up pretty easily with an SDS / Bolster.
Karndean's really good, it looks like real tiles!