I have an old terrace in terracotta which is the worse for wear due to age, basically needs to be redone. Want to cover the existing terracotta tiles (15x7.5cm rectangles) instead of attempting a patch job - someone already tried that using concrete, disaster ...
The terrace is a corridor about 2m wide, closed in with walls on all sides apart from one 1m section into the garden. I'm not sure if I'll use stone or new tiles (maybe terracotta but a different size), depends what can pick up that would do the job. If I want to redo it, do I have to use a special adhesive/glue/resin/whatever for the new to make sure that they'll stay down?
Any info appreciated.
Laying new terrace over existing terracotta terrce
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Thing is that the terraced is on an existing base that can't be ripped up - it forms part of the roof of the lower part of the house - its water proof, no leaks or whatnot and would be loath to mess around with that as if there were a leak wouldn't know until it rained, and when it rains it really buckets down so potential disaster. Round the other side am able to take things from scratch, limestone going down, so the rest of the info on the site is great, this part though ...
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Can't do pics, camera is fecked right now, kids and cameras do not mix, though I would guess that is pretty self evident - unless you're a kid.
Ineresting question about the wieght, its one of the reasons that am avoiding slabs despite them being planed for round the rest of the house. When I say roof, its more like a continuation of the (concrete beamed) floor outwards, with pillars underneath as support instead of a full wall so think would be okay with light materials such as terracotta. Maybe should describe it as an 18x2m balcony? Suspect will have to use some sort of specialised stuff - just finished a small tiling job and had to use particular tile adhesive to ensure the new tiles would stick to the old and assume that will have to do the same here.
Ineresting question about the wieght, its one of the reasons that am avoiding slabs despite them being planed for round the rest of the house. When I say roof, its more like a continuation of the (concrete beamed) floor outwards, with pillars underneath as support instead of a full wall so think would be okay with light materials such as terracotta. Maybe should describe it as an 18x2m balcony? Suspect will have to use some sort of specialised stuff - just finished a small tiling job and had to use particular tile adhesive to ensure the new tiles would stick to the old and assume that will have to do the same here.