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[rayallen1]

Hi
As you will probably realise I`ve not done much floor tiling.
Here is my problem.The last owner of our house put tiles down directly over the floor boards in our kitchen and they are now cracking and coming loose. If I lift the old tiles can I then lay tile backer board over the old adhesive. I would like to avoid taking up the old floor boards and then putting down a ply floor with backer board over the top. The old tile adhesive is very well stuck to the floor boards as I`ve tried to remove
some of It. Not much fun.

Thanks in advance for any usefull advice.

 

[The D]

You will need to make sure the boards are screwed to the joists and the backer board will need to be fixed with flexible tile adhesive and then screwed but yes you can do that. If it was me I would take the floor boards up and replace but that is your call.

 

[Jeff the tiler]

As per Deanotile but would also look at decoupling matting i.e Durabase or Ditra. Give you that bit more flexibility on wooden floors