I want to put down a new kitchen floor in a property that I recently bought and that I will be renting out.
For now, I just want to do something that will make it look good without having to re-do the whole kitchen. I may re-do the kitchen at a later date. What is there now is a very solid piece of linoleum that is probably glued down over 1/4-inch plywood or Luan. I haven't tried peeling up the linoleum yet, and I am avoiding doing that for now in case one option will be to just tile over the existing linoleum.
I'm thinking my first option would be to clean the linoleum well and just put peel-and-stick tiles over the linoleum for now. If peel-and-stick is not a good idea, my second option would be putting some other type of vinyl tiles over the linoleum using a mastic adhesive. Or, if for mastic it would be better to try taking up the linoleum and use the mastic for the new tiles over what is left underneath, that would be my third option. A fourth option would be to put a sheet of linoleum/congoleum down on top of the existing linoleum.
Any thoughts or suggestions regarding any of these options would be appreciated.
Thanks.
P.S. I like ceramic tile, and I would do that if I it didn't involve having to take up the existing plywood or Luan underlayment. But, from everything I've read here and elsewhere, I don't think ceramic tile over anything that is there now would work even though the existing linoleum is very solid.