Tile Floor Not Flat

Vinyl tile is a good undelayment if it isn t damaged.

Tile floor not flat. Tile over existing tile floor be sure to break or create a rough surface so the adhesive created proper bonding between both surfaces. Natalia baran istock gettyimages how to fix a bad subfloor. The builder and tile installer said with square edged tile you cannot expect a flat floor. If possible don t do it.

The substrate for tiles shorter than 15 inches must be so flat that it varies no more than 1 16 inch per foot according to the ceramic tile education foundation. With only 24 hours left until the hardwood floor guys were showing up to install our new floors we rented a cement grinder to get rid of the adhesive on the floor. Start by getting a few tiles set and make sure they are all flat with your straight edge just place the straight edge on top of the set tiles and ensure that there are no open spaces beneath it and that every tile is the same height. But you said that it is not a good idea.

If the underlayment isn t in good shape put a 1 4 or 1 2 in. It has a lip at every corner and is not laid flat at all. I butter the back of each tile but scrape off any excess adhesive and put the tile on wall and twist it a few times holding opposite corners. I not only looked like a survivor walking out of the ashes of ground zero our house was an absolute mess of dust and all i tasted for a week when i swallowed was tile adhesive.

It is daltile kimona silk 12x12. If possible remove the tiles or at least be sure to create that rough surface. So in order to lay the tiles in the bedroom i need to raise the floor level by at least 3 4 inches. According to wiktionary lippage is an uneven surface of a floor that occurs when stone or tiles are not laid to a uniform level if you look at the image above notice how some tiles seem higher than others.

So the tiles end up not being flat to each other but it doesn t seem possible to correct this as if i squash down on the one side the other side pops up. We are building a custom home and the tile was put down this week. A well gauged tile manufactured within standards on a properly prepared substrate should not have lippage that can easily be felt. I was going to do it with siroco over the base floor.

Cement board underneath the tile to build it up. Tile over hardwood flooring this is not the best option and one very common mistake. That s an extreme case of lippage. The tile planks don t form a flat surface.

Lippage can be affected by a substrate not being properly prepared so it is flat. In order for tiles to lay flat the tile underlayment must be installed correctly. Most floor tile is adhered to the subfloor or underlayment with cement based thinset mortar.