tiling bathroom floor

[boy01zone]

I'm about to revamp my bathroom, and want to use ceramic floor tiles,

Problem I have is the floor is chip board covered with vinyl, which I've tried to remove but is firmly glued down onto the chipboard.
I was going to try and replace the chip board and lay plywood but that is too difficult as it goes under the partition walls.
So my options are :-

Can I lay tiles directly onto the vinyl?

Try and remove the vinyl and lay "no ply" boarding and then tiles.

Thanks for helping me out.

 

[Richard C]

Can I lay tiles directly onto the vinyl?

It’s sometimes possible to tile over rigid vinyl tiles on a solid floor but to attempt it on a suspended rubbish, chip board floor will be doomed to failure in a very short time.

Try and remove the vinyl and lay "no ply" boarding and then tiles.

By far & away the best solution is to rip up the old chip board floor (its crap) & replace with a new 18-25mm WBP ply floor & tile that. Removing the chip can require some thought & a special saw but it’s hardly difficult; it’s done all the time. The thickness of the ply you need will depend on the floor joist size/pitch/span.

If you want to persevere with the existing floor, you need to get all the vinyl up, make sure the existing floor is securely fixed & overboard with either a decent tile backer board or minimum 12mm WBP ply; I would not use “no more ply”.

Only use quality trade tiling products of the correct type for your tiles; the DIY products are generally cheap crap.

 

[boy01zone]

thanks, I guess this is the best solution.

 

[jctilingservices]

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By far & away the best solution is to rip up the old chip board floor (its crap) & replace with a new 18-25mm WBP ply floor & tile that.
Only use quality trade tiling products of the correct type for your tiles; the DIY products are generally cheap crap.[/quote]

100% correct way, otherwise you are inviting trouble really