Can anyone tell me the tricks to layout, cutting & installing vinyl flooring over old vinyl & not using new underlayment? This my first time using breaktime looks like a neat thing.
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Welcome to Breaktime...guess it's my turn to say, please fill out your profile if you're going to stay around....
As to your floor, sheet vinyl isn't my cuppa' tea, but I do know that, if your existing is sound enough to lay over, it still needs to be filled in with what's called embossing leveler, otherwise the pattern embossed in the old floor will telegraph into the new one...
Perhaps someone else can take it from here....
if there any seams in the floor cut them open a couple of inches on each side and pull them pieces out. skim coat the entire floor (if it is sound and well bonded) and wait for dry. if sqaure or rectangular room cut material a couple of inches big and lay and trim. If there are cabinets and other items installed try pattern scribing. Armstrong has a pattern scribing kit for sale with detailed instruction at the depot. i've seen it before. good luck!
Be sure to clean anything you apply anything to.
Buy the Armstrong installation pattern kit. If you follw the directions, they guarantee a good fit or they pay for new material.
Be on the lookout for loose /curling seams and anything that could trelegraph through the new vinyl. And be careful bringing it home from the store. It seems pretty rigid when it's rolled up, but if the roll folds in half while you're carrying it, you might ruin it. If you have a piece of 3" pvc pipe, have them roll the vinyl around that for added strength.
"When asked if you can do something, tell'em "Why certainly I can", then get busy and find a way to do it." T. Roosevelt
AHH good Ol vinyl flooring! Bringin back memories of when I remodeled 20 rentals----
If I was you, I'd tear out the old stuff......it comes out easy, take off your baseboard, peel up a corner, and tear! Scrape the old glue, ect off the subfloor and sweep it up good (this should all together take like 30 min to 1 hr)
I rough measure the room, usually about 2 or 3 inches large. Roll out my vinyl on a clean surface and cut. Then I lay it out in the room, and trim the edges with a strait edge or a 14 inch drywall knife. I poke the vinyl down with the strait edge along the wall, and cut it with a sharp utility knife.
You got a little room for error (little being the key) cause your trim is going to cover, take extra care around cabinets, ect. that trim doesn't cover.
Then I roll up one side, and aply glue, and roll it out onto the glue ride, using a roller if needed (you can get by with a 2x4 scrap or something) Then I roll up the other side into the center, and glue it (like a scroll) You get the point.
vinyl is a piece of cake if you do that method, and when you remodel enough rental properties in gets easier and easier
When in doubt, get a bigger hammer!
You meant that for CF, not me.
I pulled up sheet vinyl from my kitchen when I installed saltillo tile, and it was tough. The vinyl was well glueds to the concrete slab, and it took most of a day to scrape all the cardboard backing off the slab.
But other than that, your description is accurate ... cut carefully!
"When asked if you can do something, tell'em "Why certainly I can", then get busy and find a way to do it." T. Roosevelt
Sorry eddie, replied to the wrong person.......
Yeah, I have had some that sticks down good to concrete, but usually on wood subfloor its not AS bad......
Course you can just put the leveler over it like everyone else said, but I prefer not to, cause in my opinion, if your putting in new, the old is probably looseWhen in doubt, get a bigger hammer!