How To Lay Vinyl Flooring Over Ceramic Tile

Here are the step by step instructions for installing them yourself.

How to lay vinyl flooring over ceramic tile. Next if the tile s joints are deep you ll want regrout them to bring them flush with the tile so that the lines won t telegraph show through the vinyl floor. This isn t possible with every flooring material but it s often possible to install ceramic porcelain or stone tile over resilient flooring including standard sheet vinyl vinyl tile or linoleum. Over time the vinyl will sink or be pressed down into the contour of these depressions telescoping the grout joints from the ceramic tile installation all the way up through the vinyl tiles. The main caveat is that all vinyl formats call for a smooth subfloor including sheet vinyl vinyl tile and luxury vinyl planks and tiles.

Once the tile is leveled off your next step is to remove the toilet so that the floor can be laid under it not cut around it. So where feasible it makes sense to install the new flooring directly over the old without removing the old flooring. Give the compound time to dry before moving on to the installation process. Use a self leveling compound to fill in the grout joints.

Then smooth out the ceramic tile before laying the vinyl.