jetma96
Sep 12, 2012, 06:14 PM
My husband and I have decided to replace our kitchen floor and want to put down 18x18" porcelain tiles. The challenge is we live in an older home that is very unusually built. It is an all brick ranch built in 1961 with two 2x12's sandwiched together as joists every 6 FEET. These joists run the length (not width) of the home, over them the builder laid additional 2x12 perpendicular (like when building a deck) and then subfloor and the flooring which 90% of the house is hard wood floors.
We are getting mixed opinions on whether we can replace our vinyl kitchen floor with porcelain tile. If we lay a subfloor (1/4" or 1/2" plywood? ... or thicker) topped by cement board (1/4" or 1/2" ?) would that provide sufficient stiffness for the tile?
The floor we are replacing is just under 425 square feet.
Thanks
We are getting mixed opinions on whether we can replace our vinyl kitchen floor with porcelain tile. If we lay a subfloor (1/4" or 1/2" plywood? ... or thicker) topped by cement board (1/4" or 1/2" ?) would that provide sufficient stiffness for the tile?
The floor we are replacing is just under 425 square feet.
Thanks