Installing Porcelain Tile Over Vinyl Floor

Your greatest concerns when installing a vinyl floor over the existing tile are the tile s joints and the floor s height.

Installing porcelain tile over vinyl floor.

Screw or nail 1 2 cement backer board on top of the vinyl while the adhesive is still wet. Apply thin set adhesive to the vinyl flooring with a notched trowel. Installing ceramic tile over vinyl or linoleum surfaces can be more complicated than expected and probably should be avoided whenever possible. Chip out any loose grout and then vacuum the floor.

Before you start see if any tile is broken or damaged. However if you can t remove the old surface or otherwise decide to install over it lay a backer board with thin set over the old surface to serve as your new subfloor material. Mix a cementitious floor leveling compound such as henry 555 level pro or levelquik self leveling underlayment with water in a bucket until the mixture is pourable. Not every form of resilient flooring is suitable for receiving tile directly.

Once you ve removed lose or broken pieces patch the empty sections with a liquid cement or mortar letting it settle level with the tile floor. A unique and time saving way to apply ceramic tile directly on top of vinyl flooring using the tavy thin skin system home owners are now able to lay ceramic tile over surfaces that would have never before been possible. Apply thin set adhesive to any joints in the backer board. The best candidate is fully adhered glued down sheet vinyl flooring.

Ron and armen tavy demonstrate one such surface in this project as they install ceramic tile over vinyl flooring. Consider this sample procedure for leveling a ceramic tile floor prior to installing glue down or floating vinyl.