Installing Porcelain Tile Over Sheet Vinyl Floor

To install ceramic tile over wood the wood surface must be structurally sound enough to support the weight of the tile.

Installing porcelain tile over sheet vinyl floor.

3 spread a thin layer of concrete over the vinyl and. The main caveat is that all vinyl formats call for a smooth subfloor including sheet vinyl vinyl tile and luxury vinyl planks and tiles. 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. 1 remove both layers of vinyl before tile install.

There are times when you look at the vinyl of a bathroom floor and just want to cringe. A unique and time saving way to apply ceramic tile directly on top of vinyl flooring. Maybe it s beginning to stick up or it was put in during the nixon administration and looks like a psychedelic acid flashback. It s time to replace that old floor with some fancy new bathroom tile.

The trouble is that thinset generally requires a textured surface to bond at. Over one year ago i installed luxury vinyl tile directly over pre existing ceramic tile flooring. I ve been told to. Ron and armen tavy demonstrate one such surface in this project as they install ceramic tile over vinyl flooring.

2 install and nail backerboard over the vinyl then install tile. 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. Using the tavy thin skin system home owners are now able to lay ceramic tile over surfaces that would have never before been possible. When installing new stone ceramic or porcelain tiles over a vinyl tile subfloor thinset is definitely the way to go.

Next if the tile s joints are deep you ll want regrout them to bring them flush with the tile so that the lines won t telegraph show through the vinyl floor. Installing over wood. So where feasible it makes sense to install the new flooring directly over the old without removing the old flooring. If the grout lines in the ceramic tile are deep you ll see and feel them under sheet flooring and if you choose to install preglued vinyl tiles they won t stick.

This isn t possible with every flooring material but it s often possible to install ceramic porcelain or stone tile over resilient flooring including standard sheet vinyl vinyl tile or linoleum. 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. The upstairs bath 75 sf in my 1950 house has two layers of sheet vinyl flooring over a solid subfloor.