Vinyl Flooring Question please!

Churchpolly

Hi, can I lay felt backed vinyl over ceramic floor tiles ? I want to have vinyl laid over my tiled kitchen floor and I have been told I can just buy a roll of felt backed vinyl and lay it directly on top. I know I cant put down ordinary vinyl as the grout lines of the tiles will show through in time. Any advice would be wonderful, thank you.

A.Penny.Saved

It might be worth finding some thin and large sheets to put on top of the tiles to stop the tile edges from showing through. There are different forms of board such as hardboard, mdf, acrylic sheet in different sizes and thicknesses. It might be worth taping the edges together before laying the vinyl.

Some of these are about 3mm thick and the acrylic is 2mm thick.

Vinyl should help protect the wood from water but acrylic would not be affected.

This might add 5 to 6mm to the height including the vinyl so the door might need trimming slightly and some adjustment to any different to the next room.

phill99

My sister had this done. It looks awful as the tile pattern shows through the flooring. Ideally you need to get the floor levelled over with a self levelling compound to take the tile pattern out.

Churchpolly

Hi, it's just that if I do this then all the kitchen unit boards and door will have to be planed so I was looking to see if there is a vinyl with a special sort of backing that I could just lay. Thank you for your advice though I appreciate it.

Icecannon

You may not have to PLane the doors etc, the screed, which levels the floor is quite thin.

But unless the floor is totally flat, I would pay someone to do this for you, or you risk it looking totally crap.