Tiling A Kitchen Countertop Over Laminate

While the point of installing tile over laminate is to cover up the poor laminate there is a limit as to how bad that laminate can be.

Tiling a kitchen countertop over laminate.

If the countertop is delaminating in areas the tile will not hold. Remove the stove from the kitchen by taking out the bottom drawer and placing the feet on top of a blanket so. Tiling apply the base layer of the mortar on the ditra in a v or w pattern. To make things worse there was about a half inch mud bed under the top layer.

After laying out the tile ensure that the tile is level by using a. Use a trowel to create beads all through the adhesive. When we had our old tile countertop torn out in the kitchen we saw that someone had laid the tile over a previous layer of tile. This project involves laying ceramic tile over a laminate countertop around a top mounted kitchen sink and on.

Mix the thinset in a large bucket and spread it about 1 8 inch thick over the entire laminate surface. Begin placing the tile from the center of the counter out pressing back and forth and side to side on each tile to secure the thinset. Then butter the back of the tile. You do not want to simply apply the thin set every where and start laying the tile after.

Luckily layering laminate makes very little difference in height.