Types of Flooring for Small Porch?

Hi all,

I'm looking to cover flooring of a small porch which is currently tiled. It's small enough. 3 ft x 4. A few CH pipes to work around. I'm ideally looking at avoiding having to rip out the existing tiles.

Are there any other methods or products that I could use myself? eg: Would self-adhesive vinyl planks or floor tiles work on a pre-primed ceramic floor tiles?

Thanks

policarp

You have several options,
Tile over the existing tiles.
Timber floating floor.
Lino.
Carpet.
Carpet mat.
Terazzo.
Stone carpet.
Paint original tiles.
Etc.

Fine Cheers

Couple of pics would help. You have options for sure. Do any doors open into the space ? Depending on thickness of new floor build up you might have to adjust door height. A suitable screed / levelling compound should prevent joints showing through a softer finish such as vinyl / lino.

Thanks for that guys.

I think I'll go with the self adhesive vinyl tyles. I checked out the availability at Homebase. The packet info didn't say that a primer was needed. What's your opinion on that? I think I'd be better of using a primer as well? Or that might weaken the tile adhesive?

Policarp: Just out of interest what paint would you recommend for painting tiles?

Finecheers. Yeah, there's a good space between the door and the floor.

Thanks guys. Much Appreciated.

houseyhouse

We have a porch with ugly tiles in between the slider and the front door. About 6 feet by 1.5 feet. I bought a roll of coir floor mat on ebay for cheap and cut it to fit. It's great for wiping feet on the way in and can be taken outside for a shake every so often.

looksee

No matter how smooth they seem, tile lines will show through any soft/flexible covering eventually.

phormium

I would also try and get a small amount of adhesive for those, I have put down 'self adhesive' tiles in a bathroom and an office room recently, bathroom onto concrete floor and office was plywood, while they stick reasonably well there is always some that seem to pop up a bit and need a bit of a help to stick.

policarp

Kimora Immense Mutant wrote: »

Thanks for that guys.



Policarp: Just out of interest what paint would you recommend for painting tiles?

Ronseal and Dulux do a Ceramic floor tile paint.

20/20

I tiled my own porch last week. Firstly I am a tiler but I feel anyone could do this if they have a lot of spare time.

Last Monday morning I bought two different colour mosaic from Right Price Tiles €5 a sheet. Total €135. Small bag of flexible rapid set adhesive was used to stick the sheets. The flexible is better for tiling over old tiles.

The porch measures roughly 4.5 X 7 feet. I laid the sheets on the ground to work out a border and some sort of design. This is the very very slow part, and only for people with a lot of spare time. No tiling skills needed just patience and the skies the limit with design.
Mosaic tile sheets are held together with a form of glue , So I cut out grey tiles with a stanley knife and used a hot glue gun to insert black tiles.
Its a very slow process and took all of Monday (over 8 Hrs ).
On Tuesday morning I stuck down the main part of the floor, about two hrs work. When this was fully set I was able to walk on it and fill around the edges outside of the border.
I will admit the border design is very slow and I was sorry I started half way in.
But I am delighted with the end result.

For your porch you could stick with one colour and use flexible adhesive straight over the old tiles. Mosaic is small and you may get away with putting skirting around some walls to save on cutting.

houseyhouse

20/20 wrote: »

I tiled my own porch last week. Firstly I am a tiler but I feel anyone could do this if they have a lot of spare time.

Last Monday morning I bought two different colour mosaic from Right Price Tiles €5 a sheet. Total €135. Small bag of flexible rapid set adhesive was used to stick the sheets. The flexible is better for tiling over old tiles.

The porch measures roughly 4.5 X 7 feet. I laid the sheets on the ground to work out a border and some sort of design. This is the very very slow part, and only for people with a lot of spare time. No tiling skills needed just patience and the skies the limit with design.
Mosaic tile sheets are held together with a form of glue , So I cut out grey tiles with a stanley knife and used a hot glue gun to insert black tiles.
Its a very slow process and took all of Monday (over 8 Hrs ).
On Tuesday morning I stuck down the main part of the floor, about two hrs work. When this was fully set I was able to walk on it and fill around the edges outside of the border.
I will admit the border design is very slow and I was sorry I started half way in.
But I am delighted with the end result.

For your porch you could stick with one colour and use flexible adhesive straight over the old tiles. Mosaic is small and you may get away with putting skirting around some walls to save on cutting.

Oh wow! That looks fantastic!

phormium

houseyhouse

That's lovely, I love mosaic tiles. I'm thinking of putting mosaic tiles on wall behind counter, it's painted with soft sheen paint at the moment. I will be doing it myself and mosaic are easier to fit I imagine because as you say less cutting around things. Will adhesive stick ok to the painted wall? Or is there something I need to do to make them stick, appreciate any advice

Sorry OP for jumping on your thread

20/20

phormium wrote: »

houseyhouse

That's lovely, I love mosaic tiles. I'm thinking of putting mosaic tiles on wall behind counter, it's painted with soft sheen paint at the moment. I will be doing it myself and mosaic are easier to fit I imagine because as you say less cutting around things. Will adhesive stick ok to the painted wall? Or is there something I need to do to make them stick, appreciate any advice

Sorry OP for jumping on your thread

You can tile over paint so long as its not loose or flaking. Ordinary wall adhesive will do, maybe give the wall a coat of polybond before hand.

I would advise against attempting mosaic on a kitchen wall. It is probably the toughest area to tile and cutting around sockets will be very difficult with mosaic.
Try a metro / subway tile 8 X 4 inch. These are the easiest and quickest to work with.
You should ask yourself how often have you seen mosaic on kitchen walls.??
Its a very rare sight for kitchens because of the difficulty with sockets the extractor fan and window.

phormium

20/20 wrote: »

You can tile over paint so long as its not loose or flaking. Ordinary wall adhesive will do, maybe give the wall a coat of polybond before hand.

I would advise against attempting mosaic on a kitchen wall. It is probably the toughest area to tile and cutting around sockets will be very difficult with mosaic.
Try a metro / subway tile 8 X 4 inch. These are the easiest and quickest to work with.
You should ask yourself how often have you seen mosaic on kitchen walls.??
Its a very rare sight for kitchens because of the difficulty with sockets the extractor fan and window.

Thanks for info, I thought it would be easier in that I could be lucky and gaps might tally easily with smaller tiles.

I really don't like those rectangular ones so that won't be happening!

Anyway change of plan since original post, now that the floor covering is down and I love it I'm going to use some of those tiles on the wall as well with a clear glass splashback behind hob for protection, floor guy says they will work fine on wall.