Backer Board Over Hardwood Floor

This guide will teach you how to properly lay cement backerboard and use mortar to secure and level your subfloor before installing tile.

Backer board over hardwood floor.

We also go over questions regarding particle board and installing new hardwood flooring over old wood flooring. To achieve the ideal flat surface most contractors rely on the backer board cement backer board is a thin layer of concrete designed to be setting surface upon which tile can be installed. Installing over wood. Tongue and groove plywood or osb oriented strand board.

Hi i want to use large porcelain tiles over my hardwood floors in my kitchen dining room and living room because we have lost of traffic and a dog. Backer board over hardwood may last a bit longer but i wouldn t do it. Just screw the floor down with 1 5 8 in. My house was built in 1959.

No extra layers of underlayment are required. The backer board comes in different sizes and you will pick the right one depending on the type of floor you are installing. Floor tiles should be installed over smooth flat surfaces. We just finished replacing a floor in which they put of all things ditra over hardwood and within 5 years the tiles were cracking and grout lines opening up.

Re secure any loose wood subfloor planks osb or plywood subfloors to the floor joists using 2 1 2 deck screws. Vinyl flooring glued over 1 4 in. According to backer board manufacturers and tile setters installing backer board directly over an old solid wood subfloor is risky for a couple of reasons. Unlike wood or drywall sub surfaces cement backerboard will not rot warp or grow mold and mildew when exposed to water.

We tore out all the hardwood and put in 3 4 t g plywood glued mudded 1 4 fiberock and then tile. Drywall screws spaced every 6 in. Prior to installing any finished flooring it is important to remember. Ok i have have had 2 or 3 different contractors tell me 3 different things about tiling over hardwood floors.

First changes in humidity make solid wood shrink swell and cup more than plywood. Second the strength of wood boards isn t always consistent. To install ceramic tile over wood the wood surface must be structurally sound enough to support the weight of the tile. Chipboard cushioned vinyl flooring particle boards of any type oriented strand board osb interior grade plywood tongue and groove planking and hardwood floors are unsuitable substrates for direct installation of ceramic tile.