Vinyl Tile Over Ceramic Tile

Installing over wood.

Vinyl tile over ceramic tile.

Once the adhesive sets up lay your first tile square against your corner or against the chalk line then proceed to the next one. Loose lay perimeter bond sheet vinyl can shift beneath the tile installation making it unsuitable as a base for ceramic tile. It can provide a smooth even surface under the vinyl which will allow it to be smooth and tightly sealed. 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.

Use a self leveling compound to fill in the grout joints. 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. Smooth out the tile. To install ceramic tile over wood the wood surface must be structurally sound enough to support the weight of the tile.

Over time the vinyl will sink or be pressed down into the contour of these depressions telescoping the grout joints from the ceramic tile installation all the way up through the vinyl tiles. Then smooth out the ceramic tile before laying the vinyl. Vinyl tile is an excellent option for sealing in asbestos tiles. Over one year ago i installed luxury vinyl tile directly over pre existing ceramic tile flooring.

If you aren t removing the old floor you may be creating a new floor that is too thick for doors to open and shut or for thresholds to have clearance. While standard sheet vinyl that is well bonded usually makes an acceptable base for ceramic tile that s not true of all forms of resilient flooring. Laying vinyl peel and stick tile over ceramic tile. One of the biggest factors of installing a new floor over the old is thickness.

Be sure to cinch the peel and stick tile down with a floor roller so it doesn t pop back up. 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. Ceramic tile has grout joints that are uneven so if you were to install the vinyl over top you would see the grout joints underneath the vinyl. Plank vinyl flooring over ceramic tile.

With vinyl tile the possibility of shifting is also present. 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 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. Fortunately ceramic tile is often a suitable surface on which install vinyl planks.