Plastic Marley Tiles - the debate! - Tile Advice

[robbieraven]

Hi All,

Advice please. Doing a tiny little cloakroom this week, wall mounted basin and loo. Carpet removed and yes, Marley Plastics down below. These are genuinely very sound, non cracked. Given the size of the bathroom I'm tempted Arditex over the lot and tile. Then the other side of me says take them up, you then start reading about Asbestos and the hassle of removing them. I'm not looking for an easy way out, just the most practical solution to what should be a little job.

Discuss?

RR

 

[mean_in_green]

I just lifted 30m2 of them. They looked solid but it was surprising how easily they came up - literally just touched the edges with a crowbar and they popped straight off.

 

[Just Rizzle]

if there laid in bitumin get a good quality floor scraper they wont take long to get up if your worried about asbestos get a mask

 

[Qwerty]

Take them up, then slurry coat over the bitumen

 

[Rookery]

I've always found that they come up quite easily once you get started.

 

[widler]

Did a floor last week, got to it, which id been told was ready, just tile away, and it was all marleys and half of it was slc over, so had to pull them up, i had them up and slurried in a hour, 18m2