Thursday, December 8, 2011

What is a good grout for vinyl peel and stick tiles on a painted concreate base?

I was thinking about tinting some polyfill (wall stuff) with grey paint and adding a little varnish. I'm hoping there is a product on the market for this job.|||the other answer was right about vinyl peel and stick you so not leave a grout line. Most vinyl peel tile has a grout line in the tile surface. there are many design tile with the grout line look you can find to give you the look and colors your heart desires. now be sure you prep your floor first cause the peel and stick tile does not have alot of adhesive on the back and needs a very smooth dry dust free surface to stick. you might do well with smoothing out the floor if needed its going to be your judgement. those tile are ment to stick to luan or sanded plywood so you will have a idea of how smooth the floor needs to be. see if there are even 1/16th or even less bumps in the floor the tile is going to only adhear to the peeks and not touch much of the floor at all. I have in the past used a trowl on vinyl tile adhesive first over concrete to add in the adheasion of the tile. you might even want to think about picking any vinyl tile that better fits what style/colors you want and then spread the glue anyway. read the glue tub it mostly gets spread with a 1/16 notched trowl or smaller and you spread the glue with out leaving ridges of excess glue thicker than the trowl notches you do the whole floor working you way to the door or other room and then let the glue dry for "again read" about a hour it will skin over and nolonger be wet but just plain tacky. you can cut tiles with a razor knife and strait edge and i have had good luck cutting corner,and other harder cuts with tin snips. have fun!|||Jeesh! No way! That stuff will flex and crack and look awful in no time.





Vinyl peel and stick are too thin to 'grout'. They should be butt jointed with no gap. You can seal over the surface with a sealing floor polish.





If you really need to get a grouted look, you should be looking at a mastic based product, but it's not going to be easy as the tiles will not wipe clean with water!

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