Tiling Over Vinyl Floor Installation

Once you ve removed lose or broken pieces patch the empty sections with a liquid cement or mortar letting it settle.

Tiling over vinyl floor installation.

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. 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. 1 remove both layers of vinyl before tile install.

My basement already h. 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. The plan is to install 12 12 ceramic tile. You can also tile over vinyl tiles that are glued down if none of the tiles are loose or curling up.

I installed vinyl flooring planks in my basement lifeproof seasoned wood variety vinyl plank tiles that i bought from the home depot. Before you start see if any tile is broken or damaged. 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. 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.

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.