Vinyl over Floor Tiles

roggrandad · Post by **roggrandad** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 6:15 pm

Hi
I don't know if I am in the right forum but I want to lay vinyl flooring over ceramic tiles that are already down.I was thinking of using a leveling screed please could you tell me what I would have to do before putting the screed down.
Thank you.

Colour Republic · Post by **Colour Republic** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 6:23 pm

What type of tiles are they? Ceramic, porcelain, natural stone? Glossy glazed? Matt/satin finish?

In most cases a good degreasing and a prime first (whatever is recommended by the brand of SLC you use) is all that is needed but if they are highly glazed then you may want to think about keying the surface and applying a cement slurry first as a bridge.

steviejoiner74 · Post by **steviejoiner74** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 6:31 pm

I've done this in my downstairs toilet. I stuck 9mm ply down with grip fill to the tiles and had the vinyl fitted onto this. It's been fine in over a year.

dewaltdisney · Post by **dewaltdisney** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 6:37 pm

Yes you need a substrate as sheet vinyl will show the tile outlines as the vinyl settles in.

DWD

Colour Republic · Post by **Colour Republic** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 6:57 pm

steviejoiner74 wrote:I've done this in my downstairs toilet. I stuck 9mm ply down with grip fill to the tiles and had the vinyl fitted onto this. It's been fine in over a year.

On a downstairs toilet where you are likely to be able to use just a
Single sheet of ply, I would have thought that works just fine but if you've got multiple sheets of ply in say a kitchen then I think you'd be better off SLC'ing

Don't why I just assumed this was a kitchen, shouldn't have really as the OP doesn't say.

steviejoiner74 · Post by **steviejoiner74** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 7:01 pm

I only done it this way as I couldn't be bothered lifting the tiles and it's only to do me a few years tops before the room is redone.
Agreed in a bigger area it's not ideal to overboard with ply. SLC or even better remove all the tiles and make good the Existing floor.

roggrandad · Post by **roggrandad** » Sat Jul 18, 2015 6:58 pm

Hi
Sorry I have not replied before but I have been out.I did think of ply board as I did this in my conservatory that had tiles and there is a few places that did not stick but I have just used U-Can leveling in the bathroom as I removed a bath and someone only put the floor tiles up to the edge and left a drop of about 5mm and this filled it in good and was wondering if it would cover all the floor.

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