Thanks, I do plan to call the store owner (that's who we bought from) tomorrow, but I didn't think about calling schluter-ditra direct, guess that can't hurt too. It does say in the manual that I could have layed over existing vinyl flooring, but we did choose to pull it up; and it does say that is can be laid over wet or dry; so, according to that it does seem logical and fine that we can do this and skip hours of scraping, or renting a sander. I was just seeing if there were anyone experiences out there regarding this. Thanks so much again :u)
--- In DoIt_Yourself@yahoogroups.com, JEFFREY WILLIAMS <livhosaere62@...> wrote:
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> my answer to you would be contact schluter systems customer service directly and ask them if this application you desire to do and they should tell you if your application thought will or will not effect the bond of the thinset to the mat. You could also run it by your local schluter systems sales rep. they should be fully school on the proper application of the product, hope this helps jeff
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> From: PatriceM <patriceheine@...>
> To: DoIt_Yourself@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2011 7:06 PM
> Subject: [DIY] Can I thin set/schluter-ditra over leftover vinyl flooring?
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> We've pulled up the vinyl flooring. It's left the porous underside stuck to the plywood subfloor. My husband has spent two hours scraping it up and it's only about a 3 ft square spot lol.
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> If we pull up all of the non-adhered spots to the subfloor, and leave the adhered porous paper part that has adhered w the glue to the subfloor very securely, I feel like we can thinset over this. It's not thin-paper thin, but it's pretty smooth and pretty thin and pretty hard. We moistened it and it didn't become gummy but was easier to scrape up,but we were taking some wood with it too it seemed; don't know if that's a contradiction.
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> Any advice about whether a bad idea to thinset over the bottom of the vinyl paper/adhesive residue, especially if we're using ditra mat (thinset then ditra mat then thin set again)??
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> Many thanks :u)
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