Laminate over tile?

Just remodeled and added on to the house, we were sold the wood looking laminate as being very durable, after a week of being down it was so scratched up, we removed and put down tile.

I put some in our current home, pergo max I believe, and it's held up pretty good.

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Can it be done?

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Yes. My parents did it years ago. The laminate held up fine. They put a thick underlayment or maybe even doubled up on that and you could not tell there was tile underneath.

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Bad thing is there is about 1500 ft of it.

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I bought the house and did not like the color of the laminate flooring so I removed it and the tile underneath. I rented the tool from Home Depot used to remove old flooring(giant jack hammer looking tool). Hired another guy and we rotated using the jack removing the tile. It was a loud heavy job but we got it done. I had at least 1500 sq ft of tile we removed.

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I'm really apprehensive about how much this will cost for removal and replacement.

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I rented the tool for maybe $75 and it took one day. It was years ago, but i think my quote to remove the old tile was crazy like $1.50/ft

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existing tile is in great shape, but the wife HATES it.

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so tell her to fricking tear it out then


My grandmother tells me of when she was a girl her job was to sweep the dirt because the ground was literally their floor. Maybe telling your wife this would give her some perspective.
Report back.

I got a large hunch you're either:

A. No married.
B. Divorced
C. Married to a unicorn.

Did this after house flooded and ruined the engineered flooring that wasn’t a year old. If you took out 1500 sq ft of tile in one day you’re a better man than me. The dust alone would make me pass on any house my wife wanted to take up ugly tile.