roger g
04-15-2005, 01:58 PM
AS you might know I've just started to do some renovationg in my condo and one of the things is to replace most of the vinyl flooring in the laundry room, kitchen and both bathrooms. As we are opn the bottom floor our floors are concrete. The upper condo['s are also on concrete but only about 2 inches over wood. The condo is about 15 years old and all the flooring is glued to the concrete. Other units have had their places re done but the flooring was placed right over the old with a skim coat of something to stop the old pattern from coming through. I wasn't to thrilled about doing all that plus regluing I decided to talk to the experts. I was all for going back down to the concrete..
The guy explained all there was to know about flooring as to what I should or shouldn't do. They won't lay any more than 3 layers thick on top of each other. I asked what happened about just laying the vinyl on the floor without any glue like we used to do. He said we could do just that and that even the cheapest flooring has now been designed to stop all the multitude of problems that used to happen. As long as all the edges were trapped under baseboard or trimm it should be okay. He said that the "click" flooring was taking the market away from vinyl so they had to change because many people were upset with vinyl. He did say that if you had several seams that must be glued you would have to glue the flooring inbetween the seams.
Anyways it was music to my ears. I 've taken out the washer, dryer, second fridge, hot water tank plus 8 tons of "definitely needed" stuff and have ripped off the outer vinyl covering then soaked the remaining paper backing with water and scraped like hell. It looke okay but will have to scrape some more for the glue which seems water soluble. Will probably have to wash it a few times.
roger
The guy explained all there was to know about flooring as to what I should or shouldn't do. They won't lay any more than 3 layers thick on top of each other. I asked what happened about just laying the vinyl on the floor without any glue like we used to do. He said we could do just that and that even the cheapest flooring has now been designed to stop all the multitude of problems that used to happen. As long as all the edges were trapped under baseboard or trimm it should be okay. He said that the "click" flooring was taking the market away from vinyl so they had to change because many people were upset with vinyl. He did say that if you had several seams that must be glued you would have to glue the flooring inbetween the seams.
Anyways it was music to my ears. I 've taken out the washer, dryer, second fridge, hot water tank plus 8 tons of "definitely needed" stuff and have ripped off the outer vinyl covering then soaked the remaining paper backing with water and scraped like hell. It looke okay but will have to scrape some more for the glue which seems water soluble. Will probably have to wash it a few times.
roger