Tiling into limecrete - TilersForums.com

[area tiling]

Anyone ever tiled onto limecrete before , large kitchen to do with slate ! What advice procedures and adhesives would I follow , or can alot of things go wrong with these floors ! The floor has been laid a year ago

 

[Dumbo]

Speaking to a guy the other year who does a lot of lime work and told me there were lime specific adhesive out there . The only thing is has the limecrete been used so floor can breath obviously after tiling there will be problems . Maybe necessary to use membrane like ditra to help it breath . Although don't know how effective that would be . Maybe someone can advise if I'm totally of track . Also if used you could then use cement based adhesive on top

 

[Spud]

You can get lime based tile adhesives, these are normally supplied by the companies that supply the limecret

 

[jonnyc]

You can get lime based tile adhesives, these are normally supplied by the companies that supply the limecret

i have done a couple of stone jobs last few years using ty-mawr limcrete adhesive on to a limecrete base .
you need to be very careful if fixing some limestones as the bedding mortar dries up through stone and brings with it all sorts of interesting mineral content that has been under the sea for thousands of years especially with portland as i found out .spent more time cleaning the stone than fixing it over a two month period