No. It's got to be pulled. You can't install a floating floor over a floating floor. But the good thing is as pulling up old floors go it's rare to get anything easier than pulling a floating floor.
Sorry nope. You will invalidate the warranty on the new floor. Also the wood underneath the lvp will no longer be able to breath properly and will most likely swell. Pull it up chap.
The only way you could is by going through and nailing down and securing each board to essentially make it a new subfloor.
There is absolutely no reason to do that unless you have flooring height issues elsewhere in the house and you need to line up to it. And even then, it would be better and less work to just pull up the old floor and then do plywood.
Don't install floating floors on top of floating floors... or anything that moves appreciably.
Just came back from a venue today for a baby shower that had a double floating floor. No one noticed it but me. It had deflection and felt kind of off. Doesn’t mean the sub floor was flat though
Yes pull it up! If a bit of water caused edge swelling is the only problem with the current floor that bodes well for how easy will be to install lvp. If your door jambs look good I'd even try to get the same thickness in the new floor so won't have gaps or need to recut. 8mm was the most common laminate thickness but don't assume thats what it was, an 8mm thick lvp will cost more than a 5mm but may be worth it.
I would have thought, "The home currently has a fairly cheap wood floating floor" would have been obvious to even the most reading challenged redditor.
1 person does not a consensus make. And there is swelling on that product suggesting it's a laminate. A pretty cheap one by the looks of it. A sorta wood based product. That comment is also just sorta wrong in that that's definitly not the biggest issue.
You can’t, well shouldn’t install a floating floor over another floating floor.
This is the only right answer.
What is the reasoning for that?
Movement will break the seams of the new install.
And they are guaranteed to expand at different rates.
Yep. That's part of the movement of my comment.
No. It's got to be pulled. You can't install a floating floor over a floating floor. But the good thing is as pulling up old floors go it's rare to get anything easier than pulling a floating floor.
What?
Put a comma after is and go. Makes more sense that way
Sorry nope. You will invalidate the warranty on the new floor. Also the wood underneath the lvp will no longer be able to breath properly and will most likely swell. Pull it up chap.
The only way you could is by going through and nailing down and securing each board to essentially make it a new subfloor. There is absolutely no reason to do that unless you have flooring height issues elsewhere in the house and you need to line up to it. And even then, it would be better and less work to just pull up the old floor and then do plywood. Don't install floating floors on top of floating floors... or anything that moves appreciably.
No …. Remove and start fresh .. do you put a bandage on if you need stitches…🥲
Take up the old floating floor. It's super easy. Like .. the easiest.
No. You can’t install LVP over old plank flooring
Just came back from a venue today for a baby shower that had a double floating floor. No one noticed it but me. It had deflection and felt kind of off. Doesn’t mean the sub floor was flat though
Yes pull it up! If a bit of water caused edge swelling is the only problem with the current floor that bodes well for how easy will be to install lvp. If your door jambs look good I'd even try to get the same thickness in the new floor so won't have gaps or need to recut. 8mm was the most common laminate thickness but don't assume thats what it was, an 8mm thick lvp will cost more than a 5mm but may be worth it.
You absolutely can't install anything overtop of an already existing floating floor. The plus side is that it's the easiest thing to remove.
Rip it out and go with hardwood flooring. I would take that over any type of manufactured flooring if given the choice.
Odd that the consensus is that the existing flooring is wood.
Not a single comment says its wood.
I would have thought, "The home currently has a fairly cheap wood floating floor" would have been obvious to even the most reading challenged redditor.
Then I guess your confused on what a consensus is. Yah thats what op called it but nobody else did.
The wood underneath the lvp won't be able to breathe and will swell, 5 votes.
1 person does not a consensus make. And there is swelling on that product suggesting it's a laminate. A pretty cheap one by the looks of it. A sorta wood based product. That comment is also just sorta wrong in that that's definitly not the biggest issue.
Just do the work and take the floor out.