Has anyone covered over tiles with LVT?

[Bluebluemoon]

Hi, I'm hoping to get anyone's opinion who has experience of covering over tiles with LVT?

Our kitchen floor has large-ish tiles but a few of them are cracked and the grouting is a mess. I don't actually hate the tiles themselves but they are quite old now and impossible to replace as we don't have any spare. My initial thought was to replace the grouting but it turns out this is a huge and messy job which involves using a grinder to get out the old grout and then refilling. I don't really want to do this as the kitchen is lovely and we have new appliances etc and I hate the thought of everything getting dusty - plus it still wouldn't solve the problem of the cracked tiles.

So I had someone come round who has quoted £2k for LVT to be laid over the tiles. He said they would screed over the tiles first (which would need to be left untouched overnight) and then lay the LVT the next day.

Has anyone done this? Are you pleased with it?
My main worries are a. The ridges from the tiles showing through and b. Does it look right height wise, as in, the floor height will obviously increase by a centimetre or whatever, does this look weird next to your units?

Thanks

We’ve done this and really pleased with it. If there is a screed over the top you won’t be able to see the tile lines. The extra floor height is minimal so I really can’t tell the difference next to the units or at the doorways.

Yes, but definitely done professionally with screed. It's completely fine.

Only if screeded or boarded .

Brilliant, this is good to know.

I scanned this thread title and thought it said LFT. Had visions of people tiling their walls with used lateral flow tests 🤣

Also it is noticeably warmer underfoot - the previous ceramic tiles were always FREEZING!

Interesting question about the floor level
But we actually did the opposite, had old tiles removed, floor screed and lvt laid. Really happy with the floor but it did lower the floor level as the screed plus lvt was thinner than the old tiles. So we replaced the kick boards for deeper ones but it does look a bit odd in places.

I would just make sure you’ll be able to replace kitchen in future.

As we were keeping old kitchen

I had it done this time last year and I’m still loving my floors. Screed went over awful cracked 70’s tiles, with Polyflor Georgian Oak parquet on top. Have attached before, during and after photos (I hope!).

It’s absolutely fine. Had mine done last summer and really pleased with the result (and yes, much warmer than the previous tiles).

Only thing I would add though is that the screed should be completely dry before LVT is laid and mine took a couple of days to dry out properly, even in really warm weather.

We had a latex? ( basically a pourable goo ) poured and spread.
It was left 24 hours to self level.

What the LVT layer checked for was how close the doors were to the latex. One door was very close when open. So that door had a little taken off the bottom to accommodate the LVT.