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Bathrooms Flooring Design Dilemma

Fill in grout lines before laying lino sheet

3 years ago

I am going to put down a vinyl lino sheet in the bathroom. It will go ontop of existing floor tiles. The tiles have got loads of missing grout.
I know I should fill this in before laying the lino, but with grout or something else?
If with grout, surely I don't need to remove the existing grout bits?
I've a bag of grout so don't mind using that.
Thanks!

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Bonnie
3 years ago
guess grout or self levelling compound would work...depends on how even you want/need the finish :)
Daisy England
3 years ago
Even if you fill in the gaps eventually the vinyl flooring will mark to show where the tiles are underneath. You need to cover the entire floor with self level, a latex of some kind or a thin ply or MDF board. If you don’t in time it will ruin your new flooring.
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