Your greatest concerns when installing a vinyl floor over the existing tile are the tile s joints and the floor s height.
Can you lay porcelain tile over vinyl.
However if you have no other choice it can be done.
You need to make sure that the vinyl is secured to the floor well.
Before you start see if any tile is broken or damaged.
Home depot remodeling often calls for new flooring to fit with design changes and if the existing flooring is ceramic tile it s far easier to lay the new flooring directly over it than to remove it and start on a bare subfloor.
Once you ve removed lose or broken pieces patch the empty sections with a liquid cement or mortar letting it settle level with the tile floor.
This isn t possible with every flooring material but it s often possible to install ceramic porcelain or stone tile over resilient flooring including standard sheet vinyl vinyl tile or linoleum.
2 install and nail backerboard over the vinyl then install tile.
Ideally you would not install tile on top of a vinyl floor.
1 remove both layers of vinyl before tile install.
I ve been told to.
Over time the vinyl will sink or be pressed down into the contour of these depressions telescoping the grout joints from the ceramic tile installation all the way up through the vinyl tiles.