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Warning: I thought peel and stick tile was junk until my neighbor showed me his laundry room
I always told people peel and stick was a waste of $40 and real thinset was the only way, then my neighbor in Tucson showed me his laundry room floor he laid 3 years ago and it still looks new. He said he spent a Saturday prepping with a $5 tube of primer first and that was the whole trick I had been missing. Has anyone else had a cheap fix like that hold up way longer than you expected?
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abby_brown4h ago
Your neighbor got lucky with his floor. That primer trick works on clean concrete sometimes but it is not the magic fix people make it out to be. I have seen peel and stick pop up at the edges within a year in bathrooms and laundry rooms where moisture gets under it. Three years in a dry Tucson laundry room is not the same as a basement or a kitchen with a dishwasher leaking. Prepping right helps but it does not change what the tile is made of. Cheap stuff can last if nothing goes wrong, and that is a big if.
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