Can You Put Tile Over Vinyl Flooring

The ceramic tile must be in good shape without cracks or large gashes.

Can you put tile over vinyl flooring.

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. Vinyl flooring can be installed directly over ceramic and porcelain tile flooring. The main caveat is that all vinyl formats call for a smooth subfloor including sheet vinyl vinyl tile and luxury vinyl planks and tiles. Plank vinyl flooring over ceramic tile.

Vinyl flooring over 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. 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. But you can do the same to prepare your floor so the new vinyl flooring will have a perfectly even surface to adhere to.

Cracked or missing tiles should be fixed or filled in. A thin layer of joint compound suitable for indoor use spread over the old vinyl floor will patch up any gaps or dents and the holes left by removing the broken bits of the old vinyl floor. 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. Many homeowners ask whether or not they can install laminate flooring over vinyl flooring.

Wide seams between the tiles can create slight depressions in the vinyl flooring. Today i am sharing my one year follow up review of the product. The vinyl is in good condition. From the 1930s to the mid 1970s vinyl flooring contained asbestos which is not safe for you to remove yourself.

How to do it right. Fortunately it is not difficult to install vinyl tile over your vinyl floor as. 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. If the tile floor has wide or deep seams use an underlayment rather than installing the.

However there are special things to consider. Over one year ago i installed luxury vinyl tile directly over pre existing ceramic tile flooring. The vinyl is level. Fortunately ceramic tile is often a suitable surface on which install vinyl planks.

It can provide a smooth even surface under the vinyl which will allow it to be smooth and tightly sealed. Reply halina november 11 2010 at 9 32 am. Also the grout lines between tiles must. If the old vinyl is in good shape and glued down firmly with no seams popping up or holes then you can put a new layer of vinyl flooring over a current layer.