TX_Dude wrote:
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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?

My experience has been that thinset does not adhere very well to
linoleum. A contractor did that at my daughters house. One tile was
cracked by something heavy being dropped. When removing that tile all
the adjoining tile wanted to come up too. Replacing that one tile
ended up a real mess. That was over a wood floor and your experience
with a slab might be different. I put down Hardibacker and need a
chisel and mallet to get tile loose.