Planning on putting tile down over a hardwood floor in our kitchen. The floor is stable, no bounce, flat, and in nice shape. Do I need to put cement backer board down or can I simply install the tile directly on top of the hardwood?
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You mean strip hardwood? It's not stable enough as a tile substrate.
Make sure the deflection limit is up to par then I would remove the strips and thinset a layer of ply on top of the existing to make up the height difference and stiffen the floor at the same time. Then cement backer and tile.
Sheesh! Not again!
Uh, that comment isn't aimed at you, D, just at the coincidence of the same exact subject coming up twice in less than two weeks.
Click on this link and it will take you to a discussion of exactly this topic:
http://forums.taunton.com/tp-breaktime/messages?msg=56559.1
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Before you start laying anything, make sure that you'll have room to get the dishwasher back in. You would be surprised at the number of people who put in a nice new floor and then can't move the dishwasher.
Edited 4/24/2005 6:01 pm ET by Dave