On Fri, 29 Jan 2016 19:44:20 -0000 (UTC), 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.

Hardi-backer screwed to ply, with thinset on both sides of of the HB.