Tiling A Kitchen Countertop Over Laminate
Use a trowel to create beads all through the adhesive.
Tiling a kitchen countertop over laminate. After laying out the tile ensure that the tile is level by using a. Remove the stove from the kitchen by taking out the bottom drawer and placing the feet on top of a blanket so. Mix the thinset in a large bucket and spread it about 1 8 inch thick over the entire laminate surface. 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.
Luckily layering laminate makes very little difference in height. Install tile over laminate countertop and backsplash step 1. If the countertop is delaminating in areas the tile will not hold. You do not want to simply apply the thin set every where and start laying the tile after.
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. Do this in sections. Then butter the back of the tile. 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.