Engineered Wood Over Tile

What types of installations over tile.

Engineered wood over tile.

Alterna the name of our engineered tile collection is superior to ceramic and porcelain. The planks go down fast over virtually any material concrete plywood sheet vinyl even ceramic tile. The thought of ripping up both to install life proof vinyl flooring doesn t appeal to me. Is there any reason that a 5 16 x 2 1 4 wouldn t work or would that be ok too.

Engineered tile is the perfect choice over natural stone ceramic and porcelain tile with a much warmer more comfortable surface. For years the only solution to installing hardwood floors over tile was rip it out and install the wood floor. The wood will be going in the hall and entry. I have an old tile engineered wood combo flooring in roughly 1000 sqft of the house.

The simplest in terms of getting the job done without messy demo work would be a floating engineered floor. There are several floating floor materials available but if you want real wood the best choice is engineered flooring. Installing over wood. Chipboard cushioned vinyl flooring particle boards of any type oriented strand board osb interior grade plywood tongue and groove planking and hardwood floors are unsuitable substrates for direct installation of ceramic tile.

Installing hardwood floors over tile. If the tiles are in good condition laying a laminate or another type of floating wood floor over tile isn t much different from laying it on a bare subfloor. For putting hardwood over tile you suggested using a 3 8 thickness for the wood. Floating floors were designed for.

For a 3 8 thickness the width would be 3. Unfortunately where the ceramic meets the engineered wood there s a little less that a 1 4 inch height difference and a transition is currently being used. Also our kitchen has the 5 16 and it would be nice to have consistency.