Browse Forums Kitchen Corner Re: Would you lay different tiles in kitchen to rest of hous 2May 12, 2011 9:43 pm Our Acreage Build The Lakeview Lodge - Beechwood Homes 01/04/10 YES 2010 - Deposit paid 23/09 - PCI CANCELLED 28/09 - PCI - will it happen.-18 months later 07/10/11 - ITS OURS..WOOHOO Re: Would you lay different tiles in kitchen to rest of hous 9May 13, 2011 2:23 pm "Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions." — Elizabeth Gilbert Living in our new house. Currently scaping the land. Re: Would you lay different tiles in kitchen to rest of hous 11May 17, 2011 7:33 pm I wouldn't try pulling the tiles up from anywhere else and transplanting them. You'll end up with more mess and you won't be able to save many tiles without breaking them. We recently pulled up the tiles in our laundry and the only way to do it was with a mini jack hammer tool which smashes them into pieces. Even though we weren't trying to save tiles we did manage to pull out 5 or 6 tiles that were completely in tact. Even if you are able to save a few tiles here and there, as the previous poster mentions, you would have to carefully scrape the hard adhesive and grout off them in order to transplant them. I wouldn't even know what sort of product would get that stuff off the tiles (maybe some sort of acid bath?!) Then if you don't have enough tiles from the tiles that you took from the bedroom (and you would be ripping up more than 7 tiles from the bedroom because you definitely won't be able to keep in tact each and very tile that you pull up), you could end up in a worse position than what you started (ie with the bedrooms without tiles and perhaps still not enough tiles to complete your kitchen with!). It sounds like you are in a bit of a sticky dilemma. I like the idea of the floor boards that has been mentioned above. Hope you are able to work around the problem somehow. My blogs: http://www.movingtotasmania.com.au - a resource for those considering relocating to Tasmania http://www.sarahandtim.com - my daily life and renovation blog This is one of the reasons I decided to go overseas for my double glazed windows. As the builder indicated, he's worked on many upmarket builds, these were the most well… 13 19256 Thanks mate. Yeah good points! Leaning towards Option 3 to get a bit extra space in the cabinets but not going too crazy high (and expensive). Would require a mini… 13 39748 Bought in Nov 21 at the height of the market (classic). Good area, atrocious floor plan. BUT has land out to the left-hand side that we can extend out on (see second… 0 8782 |