Has anyone ever tiled over tiles?

[piney07]

We had our bathroom refurbed and I am beginning to hate one of the tiles we chose. My DH would never commit to a massive spend again on the bathroom considering it was just done (and the hated tile was a style that I insisted on, so it’s “my fault) so I thought I was stuck with them.

However I just had the thought that we could probably tile over tile for a relatively low cost?

It’s a wall tile so not going to put the floor measurements out, and it’s pretty large format and laid very nicely - so I think it would be a good surface to tile over.

Has anyone ever done this before and what were your experiences?

The people who owned my house before me did this - it's annoying now to remove but the finish was quite good. Presumably it's a nice flat surface to tile onto. The only thing is the doorframe is quite shallow so adding the tiles made it look almost built in if you see what I mean?

Our kitchen tiler wouldn’t do it because of the weight.
We have a fairly new house 15 years old, he said he couldn’t guarantee the work.

I would use shower board over the tiles, so much easier to install, keep clean, no more grout to scrub. When I replace my bathrooms I am going to do this in future.

We have 2 layers on the floor in the kitchen - not ideal but it is perfectly flat etc.

My dad did this circa 1985 because he'd had a nightmare getting the wall surface flat and straight before he tiled it the time before and he couldn't be arsed going through all that again. He knew the tiled surface was OK. The new bath didn't fit because the room was smaller, but he figured that was still easier dealing with two bath ends than a whole room tiled wall to ceiling.

The time after that he paid someone else to rip it all out and had it replastered Now the only tiled bit is around the sink and bath.

Use panels as previously suggested
You can get ones that look like tiles

I've had this done on a fireplace and it's worked very well. Not sure if there would be something more to consider in a room with lots of moisture.

I wouldn’t recommend doing this in a bathroom due to the weight, plasterboard can only hold so much tile weight.