Ceramic Tile Over Pressboard

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Ceramic tile over pressboard.

Tile on tile or as i say it. Tiling over particle board. How to lay vinyl tile over particle board. Installing a glue down vinyl floor sheet or tile directly over oriented strand board osb subflooring has become a hot topic for me of lately i have had people asking about installing sheet lvt and vct directly to the osb subfloor without the use of an underlayment.

Hi i m a first time tiler and i ve just been told i can t lay. The 20 year old house is a pier and beam with 1 2 plywood subfloor 1 2 particle board. Ceramic tile over particle board hardibacker. Most flooring vinyl flooring manufacturers do not allow direct glue down directly to the subfloor.

The house is 25 years old and this is the original tile. I ve got the. The tiles broke way too easily so i was suspicious and when removing the pieces of tile i found wood rot which caused a hollow effect under these tiles tile over wood subfloor. View full version.

View full version. I am planning to install new ceramic tile in a bedroom converted to a bathroom 12 ft by 10ft. Ceramic tile advice forums john bridge ceramic tile tile stone forums tile forum advice board tiling over particle board. Particleboard is an inexpensive smooth and easy to install underlayment frequently placed beneath vinyl floors.

And it lasts for 20 years. Over time the likelihood of problems arising from such installation are far higher than if you use a substrate such as concrete which is recommended. The guys at home depot told me unofficially of course that i could put the hardibacker over the particle board then lay the ceramic tile but that i couldn t mortar down the hardibacker because the particle board would fall apart.