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Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 8:08 am
by slaine23
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.
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 7:38 pm
by lutonlagerlout
see here for details
bon chance!
LLL 
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 11:56 pm
by matt h
If its not too long dig it out and start afresh. it will look better and last longer imho
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 7:17 am
by slaine23
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 ...
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 10:19 am
by matt h
see your problem. What about laying an epdm layer and then slabbing above? guarantees no water penetration to below and minimum height gain. have done similar on much larger structures with good results;)
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 10:22 am
by matt h
could you post pics, as that would assist:)
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 6:02 am
by seanandruby
Would roof take the extra weight?
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 12:03 pm
by slaine23
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.
Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 8:35 am
by matt h
seems you might want to use something like swimming pool tile adheisive