Installing Porcelain Tile Over Vinyl 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.

Installing porcelain tile over vinyl floor.

Chip out any loose grout and then vacuum the floor. The best candidate is fully adhered glued down sheet vinyl flooring. Your greatest concerns when installing a vinyl floor over the existing tile are the tile s joints and the floor s height. Screw or nail 1 2 cement backer board on top of the vinyl while the adhesive is still wet.

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. Installing ceramic tile over vinyl or linoleum surfaces can be more complicated than expected and probably should be avoided whenever possible. Not every form of resilient flooring is suitable for receiving tile directly. 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. Ron and armen tavy demonstrate one such surface in this project as they install ceramic tile over vinyl flooring. Apply thin set adhesive to the vinyl flooring with a notched trowel. This isn t possible with every flooring material but it s often possible to install ceramic porcelain or stone tile over resilient flooring including standard sheet vinyl vinyl tile or linoleum.

Laying tile over vinyl flooring on a plywood subfloor. Apply thin set adhesive to any joints in the backer board.