That doesn t give much leeway for leveling.
Proper thinset to use over vinyl.
For porcelain tile you use the thinset without the additive.
Their glue will stick to vinyl.
When installing new stone ceramic or porcelain tiles over a vinyl tile subfloor thinset is.
Trowel on thin set adhesive.
Most manufacturers of tile cement thinset have developed a specialty thinset for setting tile that bonds well to sheet vinyl.
Thinset mortar is your default tile mortar for most indoor and outdoor applications.
Some of us think what you re doing is a really bad idea even with a thinset mortar that will stick to the vinyl.
You can get an 8 razor scraper if you have a very large area.
Exposed areas between ridges of adhesive should expose the vinyl flooring.
When installing vinyl tile itself to a subsurface you ll have a lot of options regarding color.
Thinset tile mortar has a smooth slippery consistency similar to mud.
When you fully embed the tile into the bed of thinset it spreads out the thinset ridges evenly into the spaces between the trowel lines.
And there are lots of em.
Then use thinset mortar the kind that includes the additive if you are using ceramic tile.
You want to take off enough that you can see the concrete over about half the area.
It is applied to the substrate with a notched trowel.
Archive type of thinset to use over a lino floor tile forum advice board.
However as with all tile installations the entire subfloor below the tile is important not only the layer to which the tile is bonded.
If you go directly over the vinyl use a really good mortar.
Megaflex or 254 platinum or something along those lines.
Thinset with vinyl.
When you use a square notched trowel with the same size notch and teeth i e.
Thinset is a mortar that is made of portland cement silica sand and moisture retaining agents.
Thinset mortar is not usually recommended for large heavy or uneven tiles.
To tile over sheet vinyl the following is generally recommended by most mortar manufacturers.
If the thinset is combed with a 3 8 inch notched trowel when a tile is pressed into it and the grooves flattened the resultant thickness of the mortar is 3 16 of an inch the recommended thickness for thinset.
Gluing over vinyl tile.
Apply a layer of thin set tile adhesive to the vinyl using a notched trowel.
That will assure that the remainder is very thin.
But it says right on the thinset label ost all of the mainstream manufacturers of tile thinset mortar adhesive offer a product that clearly states on their label that their product is suitable for installation of tile over vinyl flooring.
A 1 2 x 1 2 the bed of thinset will be half of that measurement or 1 4 beneath a flat tile over a flat substrate.
