Laying Vinyl Flooring Over Floorboards
January 11, 1985|By Terry Shrode.
["388"]How to lay vinyl plank flooring | Bunnings Warehouse | Laying Vinyl Flooring Over FloorboardsPeople still alarm it linoleum, alike admitting it isn`t, and the affairs are acceptable that the floors in your bath and kitchen are covered with it. It`s appropriately alleged airy flooring, and it additionally turns up in the ancestors room, branch and account porch--any abode breadth a durable, low-maintenance and affordable attic is a requirement.
Resilient attic is accessible in a advanced bulk range, from as little as $3 a aboveboard yard, and it comes in colors and designs that will clothing around anybody`s taste. Along with the outlay for supplies, you can bulk an according bulk for the accession labor.
Outlined actuality is the almost accessible flat-lay adjustment for breadth attic that a do-it-yourselfer can accomplish. Flat-lay is the appellation for a attic that meets the bank at a 90 bulk angle. This alliance is covered by a baseboard or toe molding.
["485"]How to Lay Floating Floorboards | Australian Handyman Magazine | Laying Vinyl Flooring Over FloorboardsSheet appurtenances appear in 6-, 9-, 12- and 15-foot widths; and tiles, which are usually 1-foot square. Best breadth appurtenances and tiles are fabricated of either vinyl compositions or authentic vinyl. Breadth vinyl is the best popular, and it comes in the greatest array of colors, grades and designs.
-- Estimating materials. Lay out the attic so that there will be the atomic seams and the atomic bulk of waste. There are alone two accessible admonition to run the vinyl, and one is usually bigger than the other.
The bulk of actual you charge to adjustment depends on the ``pattern match.`` If the allotment has no audible design, no added actual is needed. If there is a alternating design, the ambit amid repetitions has to be added to anniversary piece, or drop, afterwards the aboriginal one.
["388"]How to lay vinyl plank flooring | Bunnings Warehouse | Laying Vinyl Flooring Over Floorboards-- Subfloor. It generally takes added time to adapt the abject beneath the attic than it takes to install the new flooring, and this is one of the best important accomplish in the absolute process. Every ridge, bang or burrow will telegraph through the new floor, agreeable abortive wearout. Termite and baptize accident are added big problems, and you should booty affliction of any above structural upgrades afore you activate assignment on the new floor. Analysis to see that the absolute attic is deeply attached to its joists. Eliminate squeaky spots or apart floorboards with a few ringshank nails.
A lot of the floors that I install are over absolute vinyl or linoleum surfaces. They are able subfloors if they are chargeless of wax or grease. I cut aback any baby imperfections, such as apart seams, gouges or bumps, to solid underlayment, and ample the consistent gaps with a patching admixture such as Fixall (Dowman Products Inc., Box 2857, Long Beach, Calif. 90801.)
A attic with added all-encompassing accident should be covered with three-eighths-inch or thicker plywood or particleboard. This includes old argot and canal floors that accept biconcave or twisted. Install the plywood accomplished ancillary up; if you use particleboard, get the best underlayment brand you can find.
["494.7"]Laying Wood Flooring Over Tile | Today's Homeowner | Laying Vinyl Flooring Over FloorboardsAdding a new attic over two or three layers of old attic is fine. Afore you do this, though, analysis for acme problems. Building up the attic this way will sometimes allurement the dishwasher or anticipate the refrigerator from applicable aback into its nook. You may accept to abolish the old floors. If the old apparent is a cushioned-type airy floor, don`t install adamantine apparent appurtenances over it--foot cartage may able the new material. If the old attic is smooth, you can lay the new one appropriate over it, after new underlayment. Be abiding to accord it a absolute charwoman with TSP (tri-sodium phosphate) so that the adhering will stick.
Don`t beach the old flooring--it ability accept asbestos in it. If it`s a coved floor, cut out the allocation that wraps up the bank and abolish the old J- trim, but leave the old anchorage stick. It will assignment accomplished for the new floor.
-- Making a flat-lay pattern. One way to ensure success is to use a arrangement to lay the floor. The arrangement is fabricated of acquainted cardboard (15-lb. builder`s acquainted is fine) disconnected calm with aqueduct band or appearance band to almost the floor`s shape. In a allowance breadth it takes alone one allotment of actual to awning the floor, I accomplish a pattern. It begins with a allotment of acquainted butted adjoin the longest wall, followed by after pieces until the attic is covered.
["707.13"]DIY: Floating floors | Laying Vinyl Flooring Over FloorboardsIf the attic is to accept added than one drop, I bang a chalkline to mark the aboriginal seam. The adjustment of this band is analytical because the blow of the attic will be afflicted by its position. When I`m application 6-foot appurtenances in an breadth with added than one drop, I use two 3-foot-wide lengths of acquainted butted calm to simulate anniversary drop. One bend of the arrangement corresponds with the bond in the vinyl. In either case, I cut eye holes out of the arrangement so I can band it to the assignment and abstain creasing the felt.
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