Laminate is a cheap fast flooring solution that easily goes right over ceramic tile.
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Removing a ceramic tile floor is hard work chipping away old tiles and mortar is extremely time consuming and labor intensive.
There are many concerns of the type of flooring a laminate can be placed over for installation.
Laminate flooring goes very well over ceramic tiles.
It is a thin solid flooring system that doesn t require adhesive and comes with a padded underlayment that helps smooth out any contour from the ceramic.
The history of the flooring industry is ripe with examples of innovations intended to make floors easier and faster to install and nowhere is this more true than for ceramic and porcelain tile up until 50 years ago ceramic tile was always laid into a thick layer of wet mortar reinforced with metal mesh a method that made for a very durable floor but one that was very hard to remove and.
Tile demolition is such a messy endeavor and adds so much time to a bathroom remodel that you may be looking for a way to avoid it.
So when it came to the guest bathroom upstairs for which i despised everything from the layout to the sink to the tile floor i would do anything to not have to remove and replace the tile.
If a laminate can be placed over a ceramic tile the labor of the installation is decreased.
The question is valid.
However you ll want to keep track of how much height the new flooring adds.