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Engineered flooring installed over ceramic tile flooring

5 years ago

Could engineered wood flooring be installed over ceramic tile

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K R

5 years ago

We put wood plank look porcelain tile over ceramic tile. They used a sealant and mud set. Yes, it raised the height (but I redid all of my baseboards anyway) and yes, they had to make slight adjustments to the interior doors, but it came out beautifully and with no issues. Of course, my ceramic floors were in decent shape to begin with. Just food for thought.

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User
5 years ago
You can install anything over anything you want, even tile over carpet ... but you will often be very unhappy with it.

What do the installation directions for THAT BRAND say? If they say it's possible and if they give clear directions, and if the tile is in excellent condition, and if you know the floor joists are string enough for the extra load .... then yes.

By the time you get the underlayment and adhesive, your floor height will be high enough that your baseboards will look strange and doors will need trimming for clearance. And the weight of the floor might exceed your joist carrying capacity.

If you want to cover up old crumbling tile ... don't do it. That doesn't fix the problem and the floor will continue to deteriorate. then you have two floors to demolish instead of one.
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Oak & Broad
5 years ago
Many wood floor warranties will not cover such an installation. Good quality installers will also advise against it.
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You shouldn’t. That would be a hack approach. Get rid of all of the tile, prep the subfloor properly, and start over.
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Can you? Sure. Should you? Absolutely not.
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Joseph Corlett, LLC
5 years ago
This depends upon the floor manufacturer's instructions and the condition of the tile floor. There is no better way to waste money and to increase risk than to ruin historic fabric by unnecessary demolition. Tacking up a little shoe mold and trimming a door or two is much less expensive and far less risk. And when the wood is again out of fashion, the tile will be unscathed.
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Patricia Colwell Consulting
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Just because you CAN does not mean you should. First it will add height to the floor which can create many other issues like doors that can’t move appliances like a DW that no longer fits . Remove the tile and do this right.
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Not much to add to the advice above except that I've done this many times without an issue. Sometimes it works out perfectly and saves the mess and cost of tile removal.
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Carolina Kitchen & Bath
5 years ago
What does the manufacturer's warranty say? Will they warrantee the floor even though it's been installed over tile? I get Joe's point about what you find/can happen when you start a demo.
wumphead
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My home would be 5300 of demo and seems a massive waste of stone tile in good shape and even that is not in style and also changes between rooms (about 5 different stone tiles used) also it would be a loss of mass that helpsmaintain the house temperature in arizona.

but to be au courant for resale and to soften the floor for my body id like to add a lvp or laminant in sucha way that it could be removed in the future. good points made by others re fitting in appliances and door cuts.

any more advise thoughts pros and cons? thanks thanks

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