Tiling beside wooden floor

KILRB · 12-04-2007 9:23am #1

Hi There, I am looking for some advise on tiling an area of my kitchen where it will meet a wooden floor.
When the wooden floor was laid the fitter finished off at the area where the existing tiles start and he finished very nicely over the tile with a sloped (or ramped) piece of wood.
Now it was always my intention to retile the tiled area with different tiles. What I am thinking of it tiling on top of the existing tiles to bring the floor level with the wooden floor. I want to trip the slope off the piece of wood he used to create the ramp and tile directly up to this at the same level.
My questions are as follows:
1) Is it possible to lay tiles on top of existing tiles?
2) Do I need to put anything between the wood and the tile and if so, must it be one of those bridge pieces or is there something not as visible I can use?

plasto · 13-04-2007 6:48pm

Tilling over tiles is fine, as long as there's nothing loose.

I have the same set-up in my house, i left a gap between the tiles and wooden floor(the same as the gap between the tiles) and grouted the gap.
So, the two floors are at exactly the same level, not tripping over anything!

Only one problem, in the winter when the wooden floor shrinks, it show up a gap between the grout and wooden floor....about 2mm!

Hope that helps.:)

knighted · 13-04-2007 8:49pm

u can but a brass runner in b and q to bridge the gap finishes it off well -lots of options it will say on pack tile to wood floor and will mask the shrinkage in winter also -sits under the timber and over the tile about 20 euros for a 2.5 metre strip i think -a few choices available not just brass