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Tile over vinyl
Question - can anyone help?
I am putting down a ceramic tile floor in the basement that has two layers of glued down vinyl tiles over the concrete. Since they existing flooring is tightly glued and undamaged, can I put the ceramic tile over them or do I have to scrape the vinyl and glue off first? Thanks for any help you can give - Shel shelperkins (at) cox.net |
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Tile over vinyl
Doing it the right way does involve removing the layers of vinyl. Stop
trying to be lazy. |
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Tile over vinyl
Any flex at all will make tile crack. It cannot be laid over vinyl,
unless you were to put some very seriously fastened concrete backer board or something similar down. Sorry, the vinyl has to come up. shel wrote: Question - can anyone help? I am putting down a ceramic tile floor in the basement that has two layers of glued down vinyl tiles over the concrete. Since they existing flooring is tightly glued and undamaged, can I put the ceramic tile over them or do I have to scrape the vinyl and glue off first? Thanks for any help you can give - Shel shelperkins (at) cox.net |
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Tile over vinyl
shel wrote:
Question - can anyone help? I am putting down a ceramic tile floor in the basement that has two layers of glued down vinyl tiles over the concrete. Since they existing flooring is tightly glued and undamaged, can I put the ceramic tile over them or do I have to scrape the vinyl and glue off first? Thanks for any help you can give - Shel shelperkins (at) cox.net You might want to consider using one of the elastomeric anti-crack products like "Flex-Guard" http://www.crackisolation.com/ as an underlayerment. Also, with two layers of "vinyl tile" on the floor it's possible that at least one of them is old enough that it might be *asbestos* tile or have been installed with an asbestos containing mastic. One red flag for possible asbestos floor tile is a 9"x9" size, another is an appearance like one of these: http://mainegov-images.informe.org/d...estosfloor.jpg http://www.dolir.mo.gov/ls/nursingho...stos_tiles.jpg http://www.bainenvironmental.com/images/whitetile.jpg http://www.isitasbestos.com/images/floortile_sm.jpg Needless to say, you probably don't want to turn a weekend tile project into a asbestos abatement program, so before removing tile or adhesive that might contain asbestos have an industrial hygienist or other qualified individual sample and identify suspect material, and if it is asbestos research your options, asbestos contanin material can sometmes be left in place if in good condition. Michael Thomas, Paragon Home Inspection, LLC, Chicago IL mdtATparagoninspectsDOTcom |
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Tile over vinyl
shel wrote:
Question - can anyone help? I am putting down a ceramic tile floor in the basement that has two layers of glued down vinyl tiles over the concrete. Since they existing flooring is tightly glued and undamaged, can I put the ceramic tile over them or do I have to scrape the vinyl and glue off first? Get a flexible glue that will stick to vinyl tile and you'll be fine. |
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My professional tile installer sanded the no-wax (shiny) vinyl and installed
the ceramic tile right over it. Been looking good for 12 years. Just make sure the sub-strata of the vinyl in solid and firm. -- Walter www.rationality.net - "shel" wrote in message news:Wyzrg.97377$IZ2.52779@dukeread07... Question - can anyone help? I am putting down a ceramic tile floor in the basement that has two layers of glued down vinyl tiles over the concrete. Since they existing flooring is tightly glued and undamaged, can I put the ceramic tile over them or do I have to scrape the vinyl and glue off first? Thanks for any help you can give - Shel shelperkins (at) cox.net |
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As with so many materials, the problem is not sticking the ceramic
to the Vinyl/VCT. The problem is that you will have an expensive and labor intensive floor that is at the mercy of how well the other material is stuck to the subfloor and what the subfloor is. For tile and marble questions I would highly recommend this site: http://johnbridge.com/ ______________________________ Keep the whole world singing . . . . DanG (remove the sevens) "shel" wrote in message news:Wyzrg.97377$IZ2.52779@dukeread07... Question - can anyone help? I am putting down a ceramic tile floor in the basement that has two layers of glued down vinyl tiles over the concrete. Since they existing flooring is tightly glued and undamaged, can I put the ceramic tile over them or do I have to scrape the vinyl and glue off first? Thanks for any help you can give - Shel shelperkins (at) cox.net |
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