Installing linoleum over tile is a quick and easy way to renovate your bathroom or kitchen.
Kitchen vinyl over ceramic tiles. If the existing vinyl floor was installed over concrete and is glued down firmly you should be able to tile right over it without any problem. See my other videos on vinyl plank wood over tile. Remodeling often calls for new flooring to fit with design changes and if the existing flooring is ceramic tile it s far easier to lay the new flooring directly over it than to remove it and start on a bare subfloor. Vinyl flooring is an ideal choice because it s thin doesn.
I did and the results have been great. Today i am sharing my one year follow up review of the product. Cracked or missing tiles should be fixed or filled in. Over one year ago i installed luxury vinyl tile directly over pre existing ceramic tile flooring.
You can lay vinyl over tile if the tile surface is smooth and flat. Vinyl flooring over ceramic tile vinyl flooring can be installed directly over ceramic and porcelain tile flooring. 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. All in all our new vinyl flooring has done wonders for the way i feel about my kitchen.
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. You will need to use an adhesive of some kind to attach the linoleum tiles and cut them to size once dry fit. 1 year later this is how it looks as we were concerned about it. 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 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. No subfloor was used. If you would like a 3 month follow up of this product click here to read my honest review and see how everything is holding up. If the vinyl was applied over a wood subfloor you should install 1 2 thick cement backer board on.
Although the lvt flooring is slightly darker than the white ceramic tile we originally had i feel like the new flooring actually makes the kitchen feel brighter. Wide seams between the tiles can create slight depressions in the vinyl flooring. Vinyl plank wood floor placed directly over a tile floor without a subfloor no ripping out tiles or tearing up an existing floor.