Can I Carpet Over Vinyl Flooring?(m)
Can I lay carpet over vinyl flooring or does it absolutely have to come up? If it has to come up, how is the best way to get it off forget best way, what is the fastest way to get it up?
quinn 
I dont' see why you couldn't carpet of vinyl. I haven't come across that though as I usually find that I want to vinyl something that is carpeted.
GOOD LUCK
Great! Now any ideas on the best way to find cheap carpet? I'm trying to find the cheapest way to fix up one of my properties and all it mainly needs is flooring work. Like kitchen, living room and 2 bedrooms. They all had vinyl flooring which is peeling. I think it was vinyl flooring that comes on a roll. Is it easier and more cost effective to re-vinyl with better vinyl or to carpet?
Any ideas appreciated, this is the first time we've had to rehab.
quinn
well, the best thing possible to do is just plain and simple remove the vinyl. Then you can either lay new vinyl or you can lay the carpet over it. 9/10 times if the carpet is laid over the cracking the vinyl, you will feel lumps or uneven patterns as you walk on it. Not good for potential buyiers. Pay some laborers $150 to remove it correctly and then do as you wish. I wouldnt reccomend doing yourself as it is a PAIN! Good Luck
We just bought carpet at Lowes, I dont know if you have that store where you are. It is a competator of Home Depot, anyway, I got free padding and 10% off.
The carpet is commerical type carpeting, but very nice, 10 year warrenty. .43 cents a square foot ($3.87 sq yard). Installation we paid $5.00 square yard. I think we got around 70 yards of carpet for $793.00. I cant remember exact yardage but that is close.
Pretty good price if you compare carpet prices. So, try big superstores.
Kim
Remove vinyl? NEVER. Much faster and easier to simply lay down new plywood directly over the old vinyl and start with a clean floor.
As far as carpet/vinyl goes, you can see what the superstores have, and their prices, but I think that you'll get a better deal at the smaller specialty stores. Both type of stores will have a preferred list of installers, so you shouldn't have too hard a time of finding someone to lay whatever you choose.
Roger
Can you lay vinyl on top of old vinyl flooring?
quinn
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On 2004-09-11 18:46, quinn wrote:
Can you lay vinyl on top of old vinyl flooring?
quinn
You can do anything you can get away with. Should you lay new vinyl, tile, carpet or anything over old vinyl? The answer is a simple no. The more complex answer is that each type of flooring requires a different answer.
You could tile over the old vinyl after screwing down a cement board like material, as long as the flooring can be screwed to. If it is over a cement pad you have to rip up the vinyl and tile directly on the cement.
Carpet over old vinyl? You could but it is a time bomb which can only get worse never better over time. As stated as the vinyl continues to deteriorate, or is helped along with spills of liquid or carpet cleaning, the vinyl will lift in places and make problems, plus you would be surprised what you can feel under a carpet with bare feet. It isn't unusual to be able to feel where the vinyl is missing under the carpet.
You simply can't even think of laying new vinyl over old. The new can only adhere to the old vinyl and not the floor itself and the bond holding the new vinyl in place will only be as weak as the old bond.
Do the job right. Rip it up if you can. If it is lenolium, it might be easier taking the floor up than you think.
It's not usually the linoleum that is the problem, you can pretty much take that right up. It's the little surprises under the linoleum. I just did one in May, where I took off some awful looking linoleum, and guess what was under it.....3 more layers of linoleum and then concrete. lol. By the time I got down to the concrete boy did my shoulders hurt. It was well worth it though because had I just put more flooring down over it, my new flooring would have been worthless quickly after, as the original problem was the bottom layer. And previous owners just kept piling it up. Come to think of it, no wonder the ceiling seemed so low. HAHAHA
You may be able to lay backer board and screw it or nail it in. If you can do this and get it level/flat then you might be able to avoid taking it out. Otherwise you should probably take it out first.
Scott
Take up the vinyl/linoleum. Flat scrapers do the job. Sometimes them layers are rotten and stinky and nasty, but better out than in I always say........(Okay, well it was Shrek that said that about gas, but I think it could apply to old vinyl just as nicely).
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