Tile Over Old Vinyl Adhesive

Hi all i m going to put ceramic tiles down over a concrete floor which has previously had clear looking vinyl flooring glued down onto it as can be seen in the attachment.

Tile over old vinyl adhesive.

If you aren t removing the old floor you may be creating a new floor that is too thick for doors to open and shut or for thresholds to have clearance. Am i ok to scrape off any high points and tile down onto it using the norcros flexible adhesive after priming with sbr. The black adhesive is called cutback and i installed ceramic tile over it without difficulty. Prior to the installation of floor covering systems triseal will also seal floors in dusty conditions providing a clean.

The original flooring was vinyl over concrete. Hi i m laying 300mm x 300mm porcelain tiles. Xl brands triseal adhesive residue encapsulator triseal is a light colored high strength acrylic polymer compound formulated to isolate cutback and other types of old adhesive residues that would affect the bond of the new floor adhesive over concrete substrates. You can also tile over vinyl tiles that are glued down if none of the tiles are loose or curling up.

Vinyl tile is an excellent option for sealing in asbestos tiles. The old vinyl tile you describe sounds like vct vinyl composition tile and it is tough stuff. If you are new to tiling the best thing for you to do is to remove the old plasterboard and replace it to give you a flatter surface to start on which will make it eaiser if you try and tile over old adhesive it can be a bit more tricky but it can be done tiling over painted walls can be done also all u need to do is to score the surface to give the adhesive something to stick to but make sure that any flaking paint is removed and then pva. Not every form of resilient flooring is suitable for receiving tile directly.

One of the biggest factors of installing a new floor over the old is thickness. Sheet vinyl can be laid over old linoleum or vinyl flooring if the existing floor is in good condition. You want to scrape off as much as possible using a razor scraper. If the old floor has a rough texture or some indentations use a coat of embossing leveler.

When not to tile over resilient flooring. Putting down an underlayment is possibly the simplest way to prepare an existing vinyl floor for vinyl. Linoleum or vinyl flooring. 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.

The best candidate is fully adhered glued down sheet vinyl flooring.