Can I tile on Lino.? - Tile Advice

[Maxbw12]

Hi got a job coming up on a new build and customer wants me to tile the whole downstairs floor. So it’s a concrete floor.no underfloor heating.but has brand new Lino stuck down!

Need advice

1. Do I rip it all up and start fresh?
2 can I tile on top of it?

Thanks tilers

 

[Unused Account 1]

Lift the lino ,if your doing the whole floor youll need a experienced tiler,as the costif you mess up will be ££££

 

[Andy Allen]

it's probably only stuck round the edges.

 

[Maxbw12]

it's probably only stuck round the edges.

I thought that but it seems stuck in middle. I will just wrip it up and I no I will have no worries then cheers

 

[J Sid]

Some new build companies won't let you tile ground floor till x years after build, loss of warranty. Check

 

[Boggs]

Didn’t know that

Which companies do you know of?

 

[J Sid]

My brother bought one in Stowmarket, can't remember which builder, one of the big ones, think bovis himes. He wanted me to rip soft flooring up and tile. On reading his warranty you couldn't do this for something like 5 years. I guess this is because when they start falling apart they can repair easier.

 

[Dan]

Lift the lino ,if your doing the whole floor youll need a experienced tiler,as the costif you mess up will be ££££

While I understand you're trying to help with this kind of response, it's not really helping the forum out. This type of member has probably already decided they're doing it, hence them ending up here.

If we replied to each job like this (and we could, we know it's going to be cheaper in the long run if they do get a tiler in) we'd end up putting a lot of members off the forum.

The best we can do, is explain why it's hard to do, and persuade them just with pure facts than say 'get a tiler in'.

This is a massive problem we've got on plumbers forums. Because they have gotten so used to replying with "this is gas, get an engineer in you're not allowed to touch it" type posts - they have started to say that even to a guy who just needs to turn his pump up one notch to push water into his radiators, for example.

So I'm pushing back against this response with actual helpful advice for forum members. So we can sway the type of posts back to helping out the Original Poster (OP) with their job. Rather than sending them back to Google, and risk them ending up on Check-a-Builder type websites, where avid DIYers are posing as tilers doing jobs wrong, and causing either a genuine tiler to cut his prices to get work, or the homeowner to pay more to find a tiler, and then funding TV ads and shareholders in the middle out of that money.

So my method is supporting the industry, and the tilers. It's just not the same method as yours, which I'm sure also has that same reasoning behind it.