Sheet Vinyl Over Tile

Once you ve removed lose or broken pieces patch the empty sections with a liquid cement or mortar letting it settle level with the tile floor.

Sheet vinyl over tile.

Before you start see if any tile is broken or damaged. A homeowner s guide to floor underlayments. Tile has the unquestioned advantage over sheet vinyl in the eyes of do it yourselfers. Your greatest concerns when installing a vinyl floor over the existing tile are the tile s joints and the floor s height.

Use a self leveling compound to fill in the grout joints. While you don t have to remove your vinyl sheet flooring to install a new tile floor over it the tile council of north america recommends that old sheet flooring be cleaned of wax or bond breakers and new tile should only be laid over one well attached layer of vinyl. Glue down vinyl plank flooring needs a very firm sub floor in order to adhere properly. And no resilient flooring with a cushioned construction will work beneath ceramic tile.

Snap together vinyl planks come with a rigid or semirigid backing so defects in the subfloor aren t as apparent but large deep grout lines can cause the joints to separate. Sheet vinyl is usually applied with a glue down application in which adhesive is troweled onto the. It s great that you want to revamp your flooring from old vinyl sheet flooring to vinyl tile plank flooring. Sheet vinyl and vinyl tile are so thin and flexible that any defect in the subfloor is noticeable.

With vinyl tile the possibility of shifting is also present. Loose lay perimeter bond sheet vinyl can shift beneath the tile installation making it unsuitable as a base for ceramic tile. Ceramic tile has grout joints that are uneven so if you were to install the vinyl over top you would see the grout joints underneath the vinyl.