i am putting a peel and stick tile floor over a wood floor … any suggestions???
do i need a backer between the peel and stick or just clean the floor well??? this is going over a wood floor painted with oil based paint….. professional answers only please and thanks in advance!!!
Oh horrors…. please don’t do that. You’ll regret it sooner rather than later. Peel and stick tile is not very thick. Which means that as you go along, you’ll soon find that the cracks between the wood flooring planks will show thru the tiles. Yep. You’ll get lines in your tile.
And I fail to understand why you would put something over a wood floor. I highly suggest you have the floors properly sanded and then refinish them. The oil paint will come off so don’t worry about that. And you may want to keep in mind that your peel and stick floor won’t add any value whatsoever to your home. In fact, it will reduce the selling price dramatically. However, if you refinish the floor properly, you’ll find that you’ve upped the value of your home considerably.
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I would recommend laying down a new luon sub-floor and then cementing over the cracks and nails heads. Without the cement the nails will work their way up over time and come through the tile. After you do that then you should use a sealing primer. This stuff looks like milk and you just mop it on and let it dry. I have done quite a few of these and believe me if you take shortcuts you will pay for it later.
Edit – The peel and stick tiles are not the best but they are far cheaper than anything else. It’s going on six years since we laid ours and it still looks fine, no curling or lines. We have them in the kitchen, bathrooms, and our game room. Like I said don’t take shortcuts. Obviously the person below did not install properly
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I put down floor covering on a regular basis and I would never recommend peel and stick tile to anyone…..seems that stuff comes with a lot of problems with the one most often complaint is that the edges like to curl up over time……
that being said if you have already purchased it and no matter what you are putting it down, what I would so if you do not want the hassle of putting 1/4 inch underlayment over the entire area is to buy a floor leveling product and skim coat the hardwood with it to fill in the cracks…..I would not go directly over the hardwood with the tile without doing so……
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Oh horrors…. please don’t do that. You’ll regret it sooner rather than later. Peel and stick tile is not very thick. Which means that as you go along, you’ll soon find that the cracks between the wood flooring planks will show thru the tiles. Yep. You’ll get lines in your tile.
And I fail to understand why you would put something over a wood floor. I highly suggest you have the floors properly sanded and then refinish them. The oil paint will come off so don’t worry about that. And you may want to keep in mind that your peel and stick floor won’t add any value whatsoever to your home. In fact, it will reduce the selling price dramatically. However, if you refinish the floor properly, you’ll find that you’ve upped the value of your home considerably.
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