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Thincoat wood floor.
There may be times when you want to bond tile directly to plywood or another wood surface rather than screwing down backerboard first.
It also takes off less wood.
The duration between maintenance coats depends of course on wear over time and what sort of abuse the floor and its finish receive.
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.
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.
Regardless of whether you have a maple oak mahogany or bamboo hardwood floor it will need recoating every 10 years or so.
Backerboard can double the thickness of an installation which can be troublesome in some locations.
This will affect how many coats of polyurethane are required to bring the wood back to life.
Second cement board helps with filling.
So basically it was so strong that it ripped up our floors but so weak that our floors also broke it.
Wood floor refinishing service.
All it did was chew up our subfloor and also start to break apart.
Vinyl tile on the other hand is too flexible making it too susceptible to showing unevenness.
You may recoat a floor to completely change the color of the finish.
Unlike refinishing you are not removing the original finish on the floor.
You may also want to tile an outdoor shed or tile plywood boards for display.
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.
I refinished what was the old wood subflooring wood floors.
Ceramic glass and stone tile floor coverings work great with latex modified thinset.
The pristine finish of hardwood floors can make any room pop.
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.
With today s thinner end matched or tongue and groove flooring two functional elements are considered for their use.
Some parquet and solid wood floors are very old.
Cement board will not mitigate floor deflection but it will provide an optimal surface for tiling by bonding and filling.
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.
Installing over wood.
The finish itself also makes a bit of an impact as every finish and sealant have their own innate characteristics.
That said you can expect about three to five years before you.