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grumpygrouter

Chipboard has vinyl tiles ontop which I want to remove, don't want to tile onto the adhesive.

Although I am a DIYer and this is my first floor tiling.

People have said that I can tile right onto the chipboard but I am unsure what to do about the adhesive - vinyl tiles aren't in good nick.
You can tile straight onto chipboard if the conditions are right, but if you have vinyl tiles on the top and they are dodgy you are right to overboard them. if height is not an issue you would be better laying 18mm wbp ply screwed onto your chipboard/vinyl surface.

if you go down this route, you must first ensure that te chipboard is screwed to the joists at not more than 300mm centres and then, depending on your adhesive, seal the underneath and edges of the ply.

Lay the ply across the chipboard flooring i.e. 90deg to the way the chipboard floor runs and screw through into, but not through, the chipboard. You can then tile with normal flexy adhesive which is much cheaper than the way you were going to do it.
 
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grumpygrouter

Yes I noticed you had already asked the same question in another thread!

Can you not take the fastflex back and by Single part flexy or even rapidset flexy? Fastflex is not easy to work with and it goes of quickly in the bucket. To be honest if you are going to use fastflex drop the board size down to 12mm. Still much cheaper than Hardie and you don't need to have a layer of addy underneath the board with ply.
 

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