How To Install Vinyl Tile Over Ceramic

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.

How to install vinyl tile over ceramic.

The main caveat is that all vinyl formats call for a smooth subfloor including sheet vinyl vinyl tile and luxury vinyl planks and tiles. Installing over wood. Use a self leveling compound to fill in the grout joints. To install ceramic tile over wood the wood surface must be structurally sound enough to support the weight of the tile.

It can provide a smooth even surface under the vinyl which will allow it to be smooth and tightly sealed. 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. 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. 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.

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. With vinyl tile the possibility of shifting is also present. Over one year ago i installed luxury vinyl tile directly over pre existing ceramic tile flooring. 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.

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 ceramic tile must be in good shape without cracks or large gashes. Ron and armen tavy demonstrate one such surface in this project as they install ceramic tile over vinyl flooring. Loose lay perimeter bond sheet vinyl can shift beneath the tile installation making it unsuitable as a base for ceramic tile.

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. Today i am sharing my one year follow up review of the product. Fortunately ceramic tile is often a suitable surface on which install vinyl planks. 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.

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