Installing Porcelain Tile Over Sheet Vinyl Floor

A unique and time saving way to apply ceramic tile directly on top of vinyl flooring.

Installing porcelain tile over sheet vinyl floor.

So where feasible it makes sense to install the new flooring directly over the old without removing the old flooring. 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. The plan is to install 12 12 ceramic tile.

1 remove both layers of vinyl before tile install. 2 install and nail backerboard over the vinyl then install tile. The main caveat is that all vinyl formats call for a smooth subfloor including sheet vinyl vinyl tile and luxury vinyl planks and tiles. It s time to replace that old floor with some fancy new bathroom tile.

Once the tile is leveled off your next step is to remove the toilet so that the floor can be laid under it not cut around it. 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. 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. 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. 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. I ve been told to. 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.

Maybe it s beginning to stick up or it was put in during the nixon administration and looks like a psychedelic acid flashback. The upstairs bath 75 sf in my 1950 house has two layers of sheet vinyl flooring over a solid subfloor. 3 spread a thin layer of concrete over the vinyl and. 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.

There are times when you look at the vinyl of a bathroom floor and just want to cringe. Ron and armen tavy demonstrate one such surface in this project as they install ceramic tile over vinyl flooring. When installing new stone ceramic or porcelain tiles over a vinyl tile subfloor thinset is definitely the way to go.