Is it a good idea to put tiles on top of tiles?

[hester]

Or really not?

If it is, could any handyman do this, or do you need some posh tiling maestro?

[hester]

I can't BELIEVE no one wants to talk to me about tiling! Come on, property/DIY afficionados, you know no query is too dull for you

These are kitchen splashback tiles, by the way.

[SweetApril]

Well, I'll talk to you since I'm on a tiling roll on your other thread. As a person who sweated blood stripping three layers worth of tile on tile from my bathroom the very idea makes me want to faint away. I've no idea what they were stuck together with but it was solid as rock and I seriously doubt any posh tiling maestro went anywhere near them. I reckon it'd be OK for a splashback a long as the added thickness wasn't obvious.

Sorry, that's not very helpful but at least you're no longer alone with your tiles!

[bellabelly]

In our old flat, our decorator tiled over the top of the previous tiles as it was a cheaper option. The new tiles looked much better than the manky old tiles but I did obsess about slightly notice the extra thickness and wished we could have afforded to pay him to do the job properly take the original tiles off first.

[bellabelly]

He wasn't a tiling maestro btw but he was a very competent decorator. Not sure it's a good DIY project.

[hester]

Ah, SweetApril, my new best friend

And bellabelly!

Thanks both very much. So basically: do it if you can't afford to do the job properly, but if you can stretch to a proper de- and retile, then do so.

Maybe I'll pick my tiles first, then see how much is left in my overdraft budget.