Remove baseboards as part of your prep too so that you can fully clean your tile.
Cover tile floor with concrete.
If you were to use conventional concrete i would say you should pour a minimun of 3 inches both for strength and to ease leveling.
Measure and cut them to fit the area that you re covering.
Purchase a few large sheets of beadboard and paint them to your desired color.
Taking out ceramic tile is dirty process that sends broken chips and concrete dust flying throughout the house.
Design wise concrete has evolved over the past few years and is now incorporated into many aspects of a home like this surprisingly elegant table or these more utilitarian designs with concrete blocks.
Concrete floors and counter tops are just a couple of examples.
Using concrete to encapsulate asbestos tiles starts by having a clean well washed floor surface.
If there are cracks or rough surfaced areas these will have to be repaired before tile can be installed.
If you want a tile floor that isn t cold underfoot put down a basement subfloor before you install your tile.
Ceramic tile is a tough flooring surface that is as hard to remove as it is to damage after it is in place.
Don t be afraid to wet mop and scrub at the tiles because a clean tile will render better adhesion and a more successful seal.
This won t matter if another hard flooring surface will be going over the self leveler but the ghosting can ruin the appearance of the floor if the self leveler is going to be stained or sealed.
Affix a layer of beadboard over a backsplash for a fresh clean look.
Rather than using cement boards cbus the favored method is to use an uncoupling membrane.
It is set into a bed of thin set that hardens like concrete and the tile itself shatters like glass during removal.
Available at stores like home depot and lowes these peel and stick tiles are available for less than 1 a square foot.
Then apply a layer of liquid nails adhesive to the existing tile and press the beadboard against the tile.
T1000 stampable overlay for use with resurfacing concrete.
If you attach the tile to concrete you need to take special precautions by uncoupling the tile from the concrete.
If you go too thin the grout lines in the tile floor can ghost through the material.
If you want to cover every inch of the concrete porch including not only the floor but the sides down to the ground try a tuscan tile overlay like this.
You most certainly can pour a new floor over your ceramic tile.
No matter what tile you choose make sure that your concrete floor is in good condition.