Floor Tile Answers

We put ceramic tile in our entryway about two years ago & did seal it but the grout over time has still gotten darker & harder to clean to get all stains off. I want to keep the tile but just regrout the floor. When you regrout tile do you just grout like normal or do you have to try & chip away the old grout inbetween the tiles?

How much does it cost to remove an old vinyl floor & replace with a laminate or new vinyl tile floor in a 200 square foot room? I would try myself, but there is what looks like a base board from a wall that the previous owner took out at the transition to the wood floor & I am scared to mess with it. Would it cost more to have them remove the base board too?

I am installing a tile floor & my local home store has told me that I can go ahead & leave the 1/4 inch spacers between the tiles & cover them over when I grout. They said this is a good way to maintain the distance throughout the installation, particularly since I’m installing it alone. I’ve read books that say not to leave the spacers in. Who’s right?

I would probably go with a grout re-colorant. You can find the product at Lowe’s & it actually works really well. Just get a kids toothbrush, apply the product to the grout, let dry for 15 minutes & then wipe off anything that got on the tile with a wet sponge & re-seal. The product looks like this: http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=pr…

i’ve removed the tile’s & i’m left with black glue on the concrete do i have to remove all of this before i lay my ceramic tiles it’s not sticky & its a very thin layer

I have to repair a hole in a bathroom floor that is upstairs. There was some leaking around the tub & the wood is rotted. The joists look good. But the wood that is laid across the joists need to be replaced. There is also a layer of plywood, I think.
I would like to patch the floor & then install tile over the entire bathroom. There was carpet in the bathroom that I ripped up.
Are there particular types of wood that I should use for the floor before I put the cement board & the tiles down? I don’t want to use anything that may rot through over time. I want the fix to be permanent & the floor to be level so I can proceed with the tiling.
Thanks in advance for your input.

what kind of mortar/mastic do I use?
thank you.

its been a while since I installed the tile but now we need to make ajustments to lay new carpet, round out corners etc.

put the new flooring over it

We have a vent where the floor furnace use to be. We are wanting to put tile down in our kitchen instead of the flooring that is there now. I want so way to take the vent off the floor & lay something down to enclose it so that it’s safe to walk over & that we can put the tile over so the kitchen floor will look the same all the way around.

Your clear spread adhesive should do the trick but read the label to make sure.. GL

It totally depends on if the adheisive is a latex based adheisive or a solvent based adheisive..need a little more info here

I removed the old tiles from my kitchen floor. Problem is the old glue that was underneath the old tile is still sticky & the floor needs cleaning. How do I remove this glue before I lay down my new vinyl tile? It is a bare wood floor & the old tile was a hard commercial type tile. Any help is greatly appreciated.

well actually my bf is going to do it but as much as i love him i want to make sure he is doing it right.

peel & stick tile floors, replacing carpet & vinyl sheeting in kitchen. want to make sure I don’t need anything else while setting new tiles.

Tilex. ’nuff said.

ive laid some floor tiles onto plywood sheeting i put down because my floor is uneven ive used cement & floor tile glue but they keep coming up the next day & wont stick what am i doing wrong

I bought loads of black fabric from Wal-Mart to make slipcovers for my sofa & love seat. When I moved the couches to change the livingroom around, to my horror there was a deep purple stain on my walls where the couches were & the tile was the same color where the fabric touched the ground!
I now have to leave my living room the same setup because you can see the stains so horribly. I have tried so many cleaners for the walls (glossy, cleanable ones) & nothing has worked, not even bleach! Now I have a purple hand print on the wall from handling the covers.
I have tried rewashing them, drying them, etc etc, & still the fabric stains (tested on paper) so I won’t be using them again, but how do I get this dye off the tile? I can repaint the walls, but I rent & can’t afford to replace all of this tile!

I am renovating a 1900′s home with a slate roof that needs replaced. There’s too much damage to repair but still have hundreds of square feet of perfectly good slate roof tiles. I am not an artist that wants to paint a million little tiles but I do have a kitchen & bath that need to be remodeled. Can I use the slate roof tiles as floor tiles? If so, what extra steps do I need to take to make them suitable for the floor?

It is on a concrete floor. We have to remove the thin set mortar also. That seems to be the hardest to remove.