Vinyl Tile Over 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.

Vinyl tile over 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. Vinyl tile is an excellent option for sealing in asbestos tiles. 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.

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. Then smooth out the ceramic tile before laying the vinyl. Today i am sharing my one year follow up review of the product. One of the biggest factors of installing a new floor over the old is thickness.

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. 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 main caveat is that all vinyl formats call for a smooth subfloor including sheet vinyl vinyl tile and luxury vinyl planks and tiles. Smooth out the tile.

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