Their glue will stick to vinyl.
Proper thinset to use over vinyl.
Exposed areas between ridges of adhesive should expose the vinyl flooring.
When you use a square notched trowel with the same size notch and teeth i e.
When installing vinyl tile itself to a subsurface you ll have a lot of options regarding color.
That doesn t give much leeway for leveling.
Trowel on thin set adhesive.
That will assure that the remainder is very thin.
For porcelain tile you use the thinset without the additive.
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.
Most manufacturers of tile cement thinset have developed a specialty thinset for setting tile that bonds well to sheet vinyl.
Gluing over vinyl tile.
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.
To tile over sheet vinyl the following is generally recommended by most mortar manufacturers.
If you go directly over the vinyl use a really good mortar.
Apply a layer of thin set tile adhesive to the vinyl using a notched trowel.
Megaflex or 254 platinum or something along those lines.
Thinset is a mortar that is made of portland cement silica sand and moisture retaining agents.
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 want to take off enough that you can see the concrete over about half the area.
To do this scoop a small amount of thin set adhesive onto the floor then drag the edge of the trowel over it to cover the floor.
Thinset with vinyl.
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.
You can get an 8 razor scraper if you have a very large area.
Archive type of thinset to use over a lino floor tile forum advice board.
And there are lots of em.
Thinset mortar is not usually recommended for large heavy or uneven tiles.
Thinset mortar is your default tile mortar for most indoor and outdoor applications.
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.
However as with all tile installations the entire subfloor below the tile is important not only the layer to which the tile is bonded.
Thinset tile mortar has a smooth slippery consistency similar to mud.
It is applied to the substrate with a notched trowel.
Will thinset adhere to a vinyl floor.
