Can you lay granite floor tiles over laminate flooring?

cjb

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Hi there

We have well fitted laminate flooring in our kitchen & morning room. These rooms are shortly to become one, and we'd like granite floor tiles (or ceramic - but definitely tiles anyway :LOL: is there a difference?!)...

Questions:

1. Are ceramic/granite 9"x9" tiles difficult for a complete novice to lay?
2. Can we lay them on tile adhesive (or whatever the relevant compound is) directly on top of the laminate?
3. Would it be expensive to get an experienced fitter to lay them? The floor will be split level which may (or may not) be tricky.

Any advice gratefully received, thanks.
 
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There is a lot of difference between ceramic & granite not least the cost! Granite is definately a specialist job, ceramic or more likely porcelain should be OK for a reasonable DIYer.

DO NOT lay ontop of the laminate, how you lay the tiles will very much depend on what is under your laminate, let us know.

Cost will depend on several things:floor area, shape, prep of subfloor size of tile, laying pattern, what part of the country etc

Jason
 
Thank you very much Jason.

We are definitely looking at ceramic - cheap and cheerful I hope :LOL:

We're knocking two rooms into one; morning room & kitchen, hence the difference in floor levels..

'room 1' has floorboards under the laminate, it's around 10' x 12'; there will be a 6" step down into the 'room 2', which has concrete screed under the laminate. The floor space to cover in this area will be around 8' x 8' I imagine.

I'm trying to avoid using up wall space with radiators, hence the under floor heating preference. I haven't started looking into costs for the UFH yet though so it may be out of our price range and we'll have to stick with rads, which will make me sad!

Any advice on floor laying/costs/heating - and anything else you can think of? :LOL: Thanks very much :LOL:
 
PS - would I be a COMPLETE ***** if I had the new kitchen cabinets installed into 'room 2' first, then only tiled up to the units, or is that totally not done? :oops:
 
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Floorboards will be best covered with a minimum of 6mm plywood screwed at 200mm cts then use set the coil in leveling compound then tile using flexible grout and a flexible adhesive. Concrete floor set in leveling compound but standard adhesive and grout.

You will need a large area of coil to give the required heat, add to that the timmer & 2 thermostats I think you will be better with a plinth heater in the kitchen from about £60.00 and a rad in the other room.

No problem just laying upto the unit legs and covering the edge with the plinths, just tile right back under any appliances so they can be slid out.

Tiler should easily be able to do one floor a day, third day to bed heating plus cost of electrician to meet part P if you want too.

Jason
 
Jason, thank you very much for your advice. I would have replied sooner but I couldn't remember my password and it is an extremely onerous process to get another one :evil: :LOL:

I know what you mean about the underfloor heating, but I am kind of set on it, even though my budget doesn't permit!

I think the flooring could actually be the most costly part of the project but it will definitely make the difference between 'wow' and 'mmm'.

Thanks for your advice, it was a great help :D
 

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