Laying Ceramic Tile Over Gypcrete

The house is an engineered log home.

Laying ceramic tile over gypcrete.

To install ceramic tile over wood the wood surface must be structurally sound enough to support the weight of the tile. Tape over holes and cracks in the wood subfloor or slab before pouring on the self leveling tile underlayment to keep it from seeping through and leaving indentations. Installing tile directly on concrete. Some subfloors are wholly incompatible with tile flooring and must be removed and replaced with a proper underlayment.

Installing over wood. Over gyp crete 2000 in areas designated as interior dry and above grade floors for residential and light commercial traffic. 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. Surface preparation steps are as follows.

Once the gyp crete 2000 is properly installed and cured in accordance with the manufacturer s directions preparation for the installation of ceramic tile may begin. When it comes to installing a new flooring material you sometimes have the option of installing the underlayment for your new floor directly on top. Subfloors incompatible with ceramic tile. She has lots of cracks in her 12 x 12 ceramic tile.

I am assuming they are primarily caused by settling but i am wondering if any of you have had problems putting tile over gyp. Ceramic and porcelain tile are so frequently installed at or above grade level on a cement board underlayment or directly on plywood that it almost seems novel to install tile directly on concrete. I have yet to lay tile directly over gypcrete but i come across a ho who had laid tile over gyp shortly after it was poured. Yet this application does make sense since concrete is heavy solid and is typically thought of as an unbending uncompromising material.

While you can tile over drywall walls the paper covering on drywall can tear destabilizing the tile. Now largely regarded as the very best underlayment for ceramic tile in any application floors walls and countertops cement based backer board goes by many names. Never lay tile over these materials.