Ceramic Over Vinyl Tile

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

Ceramic over vinyl 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. Cracked or missing tiles should be fixed or filled in. Kathy august 6 2010 at 5 48 pm. But because vinyl is unlike ceramic stone or porcelain tile can the synthetic really be considered 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. The plan is to install 12 12 ceramic tile. The upstairs bath 75 sf in my 1950 house has two layers of sheet vinyl flooring over a solid subfloor. How to install ceramic tile over vinyl flooring.

Ron and armen tavy demonstrate one such surface in this project as they install ceramic tile over vinyl flooring. Vinyl flooring over ceramic tile. Another reason vinyl flooring works well over ceramic tile is that the tile provides extra insulation. By itself vinyl doesn t provide much insulation because it s so thin and it doesn t require an underlayment.

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. It s time to replace that old floor with some fancy new bathroom tile. The tiles are sound i want to lay vinyl tiles over the ceramic can i do that and will it last. Wilson also works with tile on his diy network show tiling techniques.

1 remove both layers of vinyl before. When not to tile over resilient flooring 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. The extra insulation provided by the tile is a bonus. You can also tile over vinyl tiles that are glued down if none of the tiles are loose or curling up.

Wide seams between the tiles can create slight depressions in the vinyl flooring. 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.

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. I ve been told to.