"TX_Dude" wrote in message
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The wife wants to tile the kitchen with 1 ft square ceramic tiles.
So she goes out and buys the stuff at Lowe's. The salesperson
tells her that it's OK to ceramic tile over linoleum (or it may
be vinyl....whatever, it's a 1 piece sheet). I say it's not OK, that
the old flooring should be removed. The house has a concrete
slab and it seems to me that direct adhesion to the slab would
be best. The wife is giving me grief.... says I'm nit-pickin and
creating more work for myself.

I've done a Google Groups search on "ceramic installed over
linoleum" and the opinions seem to be split.

Opinions?


ROFLMAO, wow a wife that actually cares if your working too hard. IMO, I
would remove the linoleum to do it right. Putting down the thinset and
expecting the linoleum to stay put and as you said, adhesion for years to
come might be a problem. Removing the linoleum before is much easier than
after.

If it was me, I would say "OK hun, I'll do it your way, but then I'll have
all this extra time left over for nothing but wild, crazy sex. OK?"

Then I would get the OK to remove the linoleum