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3 years ago

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I want put vinyl planks over a vinyl tiles, but there are many tiles chipped or missed around a room next to walls. The tiles are 2mm thick. How I can refill such thin gap?

Does self levelling compound can be used with such thickness?

I dont want to remove this tiles.

Please advice

thank you

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Comments (3)

cannonja
3 years ago
Take up the tiles, and don't be a lazy bugger

Take an hour or two to lift, easy job

Then pour levelling compound, ensure that you choose a compound that fills the height you need

Then you are future proofed
arc3d
3 years ago
Best way to do it would be to remove the old ones, but if you don't want to do that the chipped ones will be okay to cover as long as they are no raised bits.

If whole tiles are missing, buy a pack of new tiles of the same size/type and use those to fill the gap. That will be less messy floor leveling compound and will probably work out cheaper.
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Julian Sidney Tiling
3 years ago
Ardex NA Levelling compound is designed to go over old vinyl tiles, make sure they are clean and no loose

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