Ceramic Tile Over Vinyl

Vinyl tile comes in two forms.

Ceramic tile over vinyl.

Over one year ago i installed luxury vinyl tile directly over pre existing ceramic tile flooring. Using the tavy thin skin system home owners are now able to lay ceramic tile over surfaces that would have never before been possible. The longer i live on this planet the more i shy from taking risks i think it has something to do with all of the trouble i encountered as a teenage daredevil. This ensures that the floor will.

Laying tile over vinyl flooring on a plywood subfloor. Good luck with your project. There s luan 1 4 and then subfloor. N the case of new ceramic and stone tile installations to allow previous floor coverings of a flexible nature such as vinyl sheet flooring cushioned vinyl sheet flooring vinyl composition tile vct to remain in place can only increase the odds of a new ceramic or stone tile installation failure.

Here s how to lay a ceramic tile floor over a vinyl floor depending on the type of subfloor plywood or concrete that s below it. The trouble is that thinset generally requires a textured surface to bond at. A unique and time saving way to apply ceramic tile directly on top of vinyl flooring. Existing floor coverings vinyl or otherwise.

Installing over wood. Chipboard cushioned vinyl flooring particle boards of any type oriented strand board osb interior grade plywood tongue and groove planking and hardwood floors are unsuitable substrates for direct installation of ceramic tile. Ron and armen tavy demonstrate one such surface in this project as they install ceramic tile over vinyl flooring. You can also tile over vinyl tiles that are glued down if none of the tiles are loose or curling up.

It s time to replace that old floor with some fancy new bathroom tile. Even if the resilient flooring is suitable the subfloor and joists making up the floor structure must also be in good condition and have minimal flexing and deflection. There are times when you look at the vinyl of a bathroom floor and just want to cringe. To install ceramic tile over wood the wood surface must be structurally sound enough to support the weight of the tile.

Apply thin set adhesive to the vinyl flooring with a notched trowel. Today i am sharing my one year follow up review of the product. When not to tile over resilient flooring. Maybe it s beginning to stick up or it was put in during the nixon administration and looks like a psychedelic acid flashback.

When installing new stone ceramic or porcelain tiles over a vinyl tile subfloor thinset is definitely the way to go. Installing vinyl tile over existing vinyl floor. Ben erickson november 11 2010 at 1 58 pm. Hi halina if the vinyl tile are well attached to the subfloor and not peeling up around the edges you should be able to tile over it.