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'Overtiling', Now apparently this is a term for the type of tiling, where you tile over the tiles that are already in place.
That sounds a bit half-arsed to me.
Apparently, as the tiles on the far wall of the bthroom are 'solid' on the wall, they would remove the 'rendering' with them if they were removed from the wall. Apparently to rerender the wall would slow up work by two weeks, waiting fo rthe re-rendered wall to dry, is this the case?
is overtiling a 'half-arsed' job?
I refused to contemplate some of teh quotes I recieved for this job, because the people concerned mentioned this at the time of assessing the work, and now the firm I've gone with are talking of doing it (after just having the plumber/tiler come round to inspect the bathroom to see what the job will entail on Monday when they start).

Should I insist they remove all the tiles, or let them 'overtile'? I'm not that*, ok, very, ok, at all knowledgible about matters of plumbing/tiling, but this 'overtiling' doesn't seem quite right to me....

Yeah, my mum'n'dad had the kitchen back wall over-tiled for the same reason - it would have been a long messy job to get the old ones off, and the wall would need work on it before they could start tiling again. It does seem a funny thing to do - I supposed you wouldn't want to do it too often . . . but they're happy with the job, it looks grand and the wall hasn't collapsed under the weight of tiles or anything.

Well, the walls in this house to have the benifit of having been errected at a time in building matters, when they were still puting up solid walls, and they are, as the saying goes 'solid as a ock', or perhaps more appropiately, as 'solid as a wall' Still seems an odd thing to do though

If the tiles only go part way up, you'd end up with quite a ledge at the top due to the double thickness of tiles. And the room would be that little bit smaller!
But if the old tiles are really solid, it does save a lot of work. They're quite right, a lot of wall might come off with the tiles & need restoring.

Lossing just that little* bit of room in the bathroom worried me, its the worse room in the house for size Pity they can't really do anything about making it bigger But the tiles do go all the way up the wall So it should be alright to let them do it? I mean, I've paid a few thousand pounds to them to have the bathroom put in, so I don't want them getting off lightly with a bodged job when I've paid top notch for it it taking longer wouldn't be too much hastle really, I mean, once its done its done

I used to work with a proessional tiler and I'm pretty sure he used to say that existing tiles actually made the BEST surface to tile onto.

Hmm, Well, they have said they are going to remove the tiles near the bath where they are 'blown', from water seeping behind them, so I guess if they do that, and make that section 'good' before retiling, and just retile over the existing good surfaces it should be alright...