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Example, if you have a wood sub floor now, and want to install ceramic tile, you can't put the ceramic tile directly on the wood flooring.

There is a special tile glue that enables you to do just that. A bit more expensive than the regular glue,but well worth it.

Certainly you can.......but you also run the risk of the tile and grout cracking. Wood is less rigid therefor, as weather and climate changes, even as weight moves across the wood, it expands, contracts, and gives to some degree. Especially in an older house of questionable pedigree. If you put down the cement board subflooring that is made especially for this, it will help avoid the cracking of tiles and the cement grout. Giving additional support to the tiles.

Been there, done that..got the t-shirt. Nothing more fun than peeling up ceramic tiles that looked so awesome a year or two ago but are now cracking and ugly.