Tiling on to tanked vinyl flooring

[dagoof]

I'm currently planning a renovation and the previous owner was disabled - the floor in the room in question has had the sort of industrial non-slip vinyl applied you see in care homes. I'm just wondering if I should bother lifting it or if I can tile straight onto it?

Also, the floor is a little creaky at the moment (think it's probably chip-board underneath). I'm planning on tiling with 45cm porcelain.
Is it worth putting some extra screws through the floor (if that would even help?), or would the tiles distribute the weight more evenly to reduce squeak anyway?

 

[dagoof]

Bump^

 

[ree]

Yes, you could tile over vinyl or lino but there are lots of checks to be made on the vinyl, the underlayment, and joists, and the reason/cause of the squeaks.

Read up further info. on this forum and the building or floor forums.

Dont go blindly screwing unless you are sure of cable and pipe locations.

 

[tpt]

You can tile over vinyl if its really securely fixed and on a solid base but it sounds like your talking about altro flooring here.

If the subfloor is squeaking etc that means its loose, and if its chipboard its not a good base anyway. Take the altro\vinyl up, overboard the chipboard with a 6mm backerboard after fixing the chip down properly.

 

[dagoof]

Ree - I was hoping a good stud/cable detector would eliminate issues there.

Tpt - it's that heavy duty stuff with a sparkle through it you commonly see in hospitals etc, not sure if that's altro.

 

[tpt]

Yep thats altro. take it up and sort the subfloor

 

[dagoof]

Thanks - have pulled up a corner, turns out it's just the pine floorboards underneath. Pity I couldn't tile onto it (I'll need to resheet with ply now) but then I think I'd need to lift the floor for plumbing anyway.

 

[tpt]

your easiest way is to avoid the ply. remove the altro and overboard with no more ply or hardie