How To Tile Over Bathroom Floor Tiles

How to redo bathroom floors without ripping up the tiles.

How to tile over bathroom floor tiles.

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. Attaching an underlayment of cement board to sub flooring provides a level and sturdy surface to which bathroom tile can be easily attached. One advantage of doing this is that it is time saving. In fact pros do it all the time.

Tiling over tile is usually a much easier and cheaper solution than pulling up your original tiles and re tiling your floor or wall. Using a circular saw cut panels to fit measured bathroom and use a jigsaw to cut holes as needed to accommodate the toilet and other bathroom fixtures. Particularly with floor tiles by effectively adding a second layer of tiles over another one your floor will end up several millimetres higher. This assumes that the floor underneath is solid concrete and that there are no cracks in the existing tile indicating underlying problems in the concrete.

You do not have to allot work hours to pull up the existing tiles which means the tiling work can be finished much faster and all without the big mess. If your old ceramic tile is worn or dated you can lay new tile right over the old and avoid the huge job of tearing out the old tile.