Hello,
I still haven't really found anything appropriate for the entry here, but the entry is a long way off still. So I have time. I do wonder what the Japanese use in their entry, in the older style of houses.
What we are doing right now is the kitchen and we are hoping to activate finish it completely this year. And we would have one room actually finished. So we are going to use forbo, but we have to figure out what to do under it. Because there is an existing tile flooring.
My mom says that it's really easy to use a sledge hammer to break up tiling and then use a metal snow shovel to get everything up, scraping off the bits that are still stuck. But she says this, not from experience, but from watching home improvement television programs. Television shows can make all sorts of difficult things seem easy. Does anyone have experience with this? If so, is it harder than what my mom says and is it a huge amount of dust? We cut out part of a masonry wall to put in a window over the kitchen sink, so I'm not sure why I would worry about dust when everything is going to continually get dusty anyway.
If the tile would be too hard to get rid of, I'd like to have it covered with a thin layer of lime cement. My husband says it won't work because it would have to be much thicker than what I would like. He says we'd need to use ciment with fiber glass in it, which would be quite horrible. I was wondering if we could use something like wool in it, to have something more ecological. Anyone know if that might work? If we manage to get a smooth layer on the floor, I would want to glue down cork tiles and put the forbo on top of the cork, to have something that's rather softer.
Can anyone please give me advice?
