# Can I re-glue stick-on floor tiles? or: I hate dogs.

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**Created:** [April 17, 2003, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-re-glue-stick-on-floor-tiles-or-i-hate-dogs/169400 "2003-04-17T19:52:27Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-re-glue-stick-on-floor-tiles-or-i-hate-dogs/169400/1 "2003-04-17T19:52:27Z")

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So I noticed that my kitchen smelled…nasty, no matter how much I mopped and cleaned.  
Investigating more closely today, I noted that one of the stick-on tiles (you know those inexpensive ones…peel & stick! my kinda home decorating!) look a little loose. So I doublechecked and found that, indeed, it peeled right off the floor as if, in fact, it had never been glued in the first place.  
Without going into gory details, I have an incontinent, apparently quite SNEAKY dog, and the result of the combination of HorridDog and stick on vinyl tiles is: vinyl tiles that are no longer stuck-on, and a nasty smelly mess underneath them.  
So now I have a clean kitchen floor again, and a pile of tiles stacked in the back–enough, coincidentally, to cover about half my floor.  
Can they be reglued once they’re cleaned up, or am I stuck replacing them altogether?  
And never fear: I have serious plans in place for these dogs, involving fencing and kennels in the garage.

_sigh_ I’m so discouraged.