Unsightly slate on the bathroom floor

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Mar 13, 2011
9:28 am

Hi All,

I have nasty and ugly looking slate in my bathroom. I dont want to have to pull it up, can I tile or or put vinyl flooring straight over the top?

Also there is slate attached to the wall surrounding a wood fire, can this be safely removed without wrecking the wall? (it actually looks as though they have cut the wall out and replaced it with the slate

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just Erin

Mar 13, 2011
12:49 pm

Have you got any photos? I love the look of slate

Amadio

Mar 13, 2011
2:35 pm

My goodness - there seems to a a sudden hate thing going on with slate.

I love slate and have just bought a house with a slate verandah and slate in the bathrooms. I was there looking at it thinking "wow I just love this!" and the real estate agent said "And of course you can easily get rid of this horrible slate"

Nott

Mar 13, 2011
4:06 pm

I love slate too. I think that's quite popular in the 80's? Our friend's home has that laid in the entry hallway. He didn't like it and wanted to ripe them!

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I would probably render it and then paint it as per your other advice, or gyrpock over the top.

ponzutwo

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just pull up the slate. If you go over the top, your tiles would not have an even surface to be glued to. Im no tiler, but i can imagine a couple of things being an issue…