Tiling Over Vinyl Floor Installation

I installed vinyl flooring planks in my basement lifeproof seasoned wood variety vinyl plank tiles that i bought from the home depot.

Tiling over vinyl floor installation.

The plan is to install 12 12 ceramic tile. Use an abrasive pad or scrub brush soaked in water and vinyl floor stripping to get off all the dirt and wax on the floor. You can also tile over vinyl tiles that are glued down if none of the tiles are loose or curling up. 2 install and nail backerboard over the vinyl then install tile.

Follow the instructions of your chose skim coat product and mix it with water and use a masonry trowel to spread it all over the entire floor. The pad will also scratch the vinyl so there s no going back. 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. 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.

1 remove both layers of vinyl before tile install. I ve been told to. The tiling will raise the floor a little so you ll need to cut a little from the bottom of the door if it swings inside the bathroom. 3 spread a thin layer of concrete over the vinyl and install tile.

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