How To Install Vinyl Sheet Flooring Over Carpet

Installing carpet on vinyl tile hunker.

How to install vinyl sheet flooring over carpet.

Vinyl flooring is sold in 6 foot and 12 foot widths making it possible to install a seamless floor in smaller rooms such as bathrooms halls and kitchens. However a floor patch product usually needs to be applied called skim coating. Vinyl planks vinyl planks are designed to resemble hardwood and can be found in a number of wood look textures such as hand scraped wirebrushed and distressed. If you plan to install it over concrete check for excess moisture by gluing down a 3 x 3 ft.

After 72 hours try to pull up the vinyl. If it comes up easily there s too much moisture in the concrete to install a sheet vinyl floor. This smooths over the current vinyl pattern and prevents it from showing through a new vinyl sheet on top. Carpet will install easily with really no extra work than there would be installing over a wood floor surface.

The most common type of floors floated over carpet are vinyl and laminate given they are budget friendly and feature a simple interlocking system of installation. In addition skim coating provides a good adhesive surface for any vinyl sheet or vinyl plank that will be glued down. The only problem may be water seeping under the carpet and staining it. Allow the new vinyl floor to acclimate to the room by leaving it in the room where it ll be installed for at least 24 hours prior to cutting.

Piece of vinyl flooring and taping the edges.