John McCoy wrote:
"dadiOH" wrote in
:

A viable alternative to laminate - IMO - is tile. There are several
reasons...

Without getting into the good idea/bad idea question, I
am curious what you'd recommend as a substrate to put
the tile on.

John

If bonding with mastic, 3/4" ply. If with thinset, the same + 1/4" or1/2"
cement board. I prefer 1/4".

Some will say you GOTTA use cement board. Well,one upon a time it didn't
exist and mastic over ply was a norm. My tiled kitchen counters are now 20
years old...they are mastic on ply and none have ever popped.