I refinished what was the old wood subflooring wood floors.
Thincoat wood floor.
My daughter bought a house built in the 70 s and has the really thin wood floors and they are in poor condition especially the hallway.
Installing over wood.
All it did was chew up our subfloor and also start to break apart.
That s why flooring types like vinyl laminate and wood are best suited for self leveling cement aka the comforter which serves as a leveler product.
Vinyl tile on the other hand is too flexible making it too susceptible to showing unevenness.
So basically it was so strong that it ripped up our floors but so weak that our floors also broke it.
The pristine finish of hardwood floors can make any room pop.
To install ceramic tile over wood the wood surface must be structurally sound enough to support the weight of the tile.
Some parquet and solid wood floors are very old.
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.
This will affect how many coats of polyurethane are required to bring the wood back to life.
Ceramic glass and stone tile floor coverings work great with latex modified thinset.
You may also want to tile an outdoor shed or tile plywood boards for display.
There may be times when you want to bond tile directly to plywood or another wood surface rather than screwing down backerboard first.
That said you can expect about three to five years before you.
The duration between maintenance coats depends of course on wear over time and what sort of abuse the floor and its finish receive.
Recoating is often confused with refinishing a hardwood floor.
Recoating in its simplest definition is applying a fresh coat of finish to your hardwood floors.
In this article.
Backerboard can double the thickness of an installation which can be troublesome in some locations.
The finish itself also makes a bit of an impact as every finish and sealant have their own innate characteristics.
First cement backerboard is the perfect bonding surface for the thinset because of its porous texture.
Unlike refinishing you are not removing the original finish on the floor.
Second cement board helps with filling.
First they offer a lower finished vertical floor height and secondly it becomes an easier product to work with when installed in apartment or condominium high rises by the direct glue down method the latter also eliminates any additional wood sub floor systems that would be.
You may recoat a floor to completely change the color of the finish.
It also takes off less wood.
With today s thinner end matched or tongue and groove flooring two functional elements are considered for their use.
But let me say definitively that a floor maintainer and diamabrush disc do not work on wood subfloors despite the disc claiming it can be used to refinish hardwood floors.