How To Lay Wood Floors Over Tile

If the tile is being installed in a bathroom consider applying an isolation membrane over your wood subfloor to further protect against expansion and contraction.

How to lay wood floors over tile.

Solid floors are normally nailed to wood subfloors. If the tiles aren t flat you need to level the floor using leveling compound. I would suggest 3 8 thick prefinished engineered hardwood flooring. In order to install a solid floor one would need a proper subfloor.

If installing over an appropriate wood surface sand the wood to make it smoother and remember that the installation will work better over a subfloor at least 1 1 8 inches thick. You can t exactly stick a nail through ceramic tile or concrete so these subfloors cannot support this type of installation. Donna asks we are thinking about replacing our tile floor in the kitchen. In this case another subfloor would have to be installed over the tile with a minimum thickness of 5 8 exceptions may include dealing with some of the more popular solid 5 16 products.

So instead of solid hardwood flooring consider installing engineered hardwood. Is it possible to lay hardwood over an existing tile floor yes you can lay a wood floor over tile if the existing floor is in good shape and without cracks.