Vinyl flooring in the kitchen / Beam ceiling sagged / Should I lay it on tiles?

  • Erstellt am 2025-01-04 13:30:00

Nida35a

2025-01-04 19:56:05
  • #1

What year was the house built? Wooden beams age and sometimes sag. Take a laser distance meter and measure the distance to the ceiling in the middle of the room, then have 4-5 people stand next to it. If the distance to the ceiling has increased by more than 5mm, a structural engineer should be your consultant; a kitchen is not light.
 

Skarry91

2025-01-05 01:01:10
  • #2

The house is from the 1990s, so the structure.
 

KlaRa

2025-01-08 20:09:46
  • #3
It is always exciting to read the answers! To the questioner: Simply laying something over the sunken area is not an option! I would definitely first get to the bottom of the cause of the sinking. That means: using a plunge saw with a diamond blade to remove the joint mortar between the sunken tiles, vacuum everything thoroughly, and carefully loosen the tiles with gentle hammer blows. There are not many of them. Keep these well, as they will be reinstalled in the same place later. Now carefully widen the area freed from tiles deeper with hammer and chisel, paying attention to any peculiarities of the substrate. In this way, you will encounter the cause within the floor structure, while keeping the extent of the damage very manageable. ----------------- If you later want to lay PVC over the entire surface, the entire tile surface must be thoroughly cleaned or ground with a diamond disc. Afterwards, prime (dispersion for non-absorbent substrates) and skim coat uniformly. This prevents the joint patterns of the ceramic covering from showing through the thin PVC covering (which looks really bad). ------------------------ Good luck: KlaRa
 

Skarry91

2025-01-08 21:41:50
  • #4

Thanks for the tip, we are laying vinyl and not PVC.
 

Tolentino

2025-01-08 21:58:40
  • #5
Look up what PVC means. The rest is marketing
 

KlaRa

2025-01-09 08:39:15
  • #6
PVC is the official abbreviation for polyvinyl chloride. Vinyl as a standalone term does not exist in the flooring industry! An abbreviated "vinyl flooring" therefore refers to one made of PVC, polyvinyl chloride! Other floorings are classified as "chlorine-free flooring" or similar, which then refers to those made of polyethylene.
 

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