Quarry tile dilemma

[Nightingale-b]

Hi all , I’ve just purchased a Victorian semi and appreciate so many of the original features however, the one feature I can’t get on board with are these quarry tiles in thee dining room. What options do I have ? I’ve read that they need to breathe and cannot be covered but that also often they are a nightmare to take up as they don’t have the appropriate base layer.

All the forums I can find are telling me how to clean them but I absolutely do not want to make them any more red , quite the opposite.

 

[Nightingale-b]

 

[ltppebbs]

Try taking one up in the corner of the room as an eploritory hole aand see what the substrate underneath is and go from there, you maybe lucky and find a concrete base.

 

[Nightingale-b]

built in around 1875 so I’m not confident but we shall see . Thanks