The laminate of many attracts its numerous advantages and aesthetic qualities of repair, many decide to change the sexual coating and put the popular laminate. It is beautiful, practical, wear and moisture consoles and in general in the kitchen looks better than many coatings. But often there are already linoleum, parquet. No one wants to do dual work and waste time removing the old coating. Is it possible to lower the laminate for parquet, tile and linoleum?
Requirements for working with laminate
The laminate became popular at the broad masses not only because of his practicality and beauty, but also because it is absuriently difficult to get it, like linoleum. With such work, you can cope with your own hands.
With laminate laying on other floor coverings it is not difficult to cope on your own
Laminate species, like companies producing them. But almost all impose similar requirements for work with them. It is necessary to drain the laminate on the surface of the smooth and dry. Also, they should not crumble, rolling, worry, bespoke. In a word, the old surface should be durable. If the room is humid or the base is wet, then there is also a substrate.
To eliminate the contact of laminate with a concrete base, an insulating substrate is used. Her role:
- Thermal insulation;
- Soundproofing;
- Moisture protection;
- Aligning surface.
Detailed instructions for laying laminate (video)
Laminate plus linoleum
Now the question arises - and the old linoleum can be considered the substrate itself and the finished basis or should it be removed? Here it is necessary to pre-conduct a revision of the coverage, guided by the requirements of laminate manufacturers to the ground. That is, by default, we can assume that if the old linoleum is not damaged and lies exactly, then it can be safely treated with laminate.
If the old linoleum coating has no damage and lies exactly, it can be laminated on it
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This is possible, because when Linoleum was laid, the foundation was already done, the floor was aligned, defects were eliminated. And now, if nothing happened to the linoleum itself, this former reason can already be considered ready.
Before the works, the entire surface of the floor in the kitchen, hallway, the rooms are examined. If there are no clown surfaces, bends, the old linoleum is smoothly, then you can lower the laminate.
Important: If the linoleum is very old, then it will have to remove it. Since at any time it will begin to collapse, which will lead to the deformation of the laminate flooring. Either the old linoleum must be covered with a substrate. Its thickness should be about 3 mm. To do this, you can use a plug foam polyethylene foam, polystyrene.
Does the substrate need
The substrate is needed on the recommendations of the manufacturers of laminate. To put it or not in the kitchen and in the rooms depends in this case from what characteristics has a canvas of an old linoleum, parquet, tile.
Much depends on how tightly and firmly old base, which is the old sexual coating. The tile and parquet themselves are quite durable and solid and they do not need to give extra strength so that they do not bend and not deformed. Therefore, on them the substrate can not be treated.
The need for laying a substrate for laminate each determines for itself
If the linoleum is badly damaged, it must be removed before laying the laminate
Linoleum is of different thickness and softness. If the old linoleum is thin, without a substrate, and even on the texture itself, it is a bad base. If you lay a laminate, then soon the floorboard will begin to see, remember. The boards will begin to move, the gaps will be formed between them. Therefore, a soft linoleum must be pre-laying the substrate. And it does not matter whether it is about the kitchen or in other rooms.
What are the advantages
Laying the laminate on the tile, parquet or linoleum is good in that it is not necessary to carry all the furniture from the room. It is enough simply to move it to the side, but on the free space laying the laminate boards. This greatly facilitates both temporary and labor costs.
Also, laying on linoleum or parquet allows you to save funds, because you can not purchase other materials for the organization of the substrate.
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The charm of laying laminate on the tile is that the repair can be done in stages, without freeing the room completely from the furniture
Before laying laminate on the tile, it is important to check the horizontal level of the floor
Laying laminate on the tile, it is necessary to use a polystyrene foam substrate
Algorithm of action
With the help of the level to check the flattering floor. It is important that significant differences are detected. At the same time it is worth checking if the linoleum is well fixed. If he went down somewhere, then it must be turned back. This for labor costs is incommensurable less than the removal of linoleum and laying the substrate.Laminated boards decompose in the room and leave for a few days for the so-called acclimatization. They must acquire the same temperature and humidity as the floor in the room, especially in the kitchen. It is very important to do so in the cold season.
Develop a laminate flooring on the technology recommended by the manufacturer, starting it from the wall on which there is a window.
Laying of laminate on old linoleum (video)
Laminate on parquet
Before laying the laminate to parquet, you need to carefully inspect the condition of the floor. If defects are detected, they must be eliminated. The collapsing boards should be inserted back, formed thick gaps to sharpen and carefully close. If more than 20% of the surface of the parquet has suffered, then it will have to completely go through it.In some cases, the cycle of parquet is required before laying the laminate. If the parquet suffered seriously, and his bulkhead is not included in plans, then plywood sheets are simply placed on top of the parquet. And on top of them laying laminate. Laminate is precipitated as it should be on the instructions for it. The procedure for actions here does not differ from the usual laying of laminate.
Laying of laminate on the old floor (video)
Is it possible to put a linoleum on the tile
The floor from the tile under the laying of linoleum in the alignment did not need repair in the house the cosmetic is carried out, it is almost always on the floors there is already an old sexual coating. In the kitchen and in the bathroom it can be linoleum. Many decide to update the floor and choose a durable and aesthetic tile. Is it possible to put it on the old linoleum? And is it possible to produce a reverse operation - to store the new linoleum old tile?
Ceramic or porcelain tiles are a wonderful finished base for linoleum. Requirements for the foundation are simple. The basis must be:
- smooth;
- durable;
- Do not fade.
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Tile matches all these requirements. Under it once the floor was already aligned, so there is no doubt about his doubt. The tile itself has a solid surface and, accordingly, when laying on it, the linoleum will not be able to deform. Therefore, if the linoleum on the tile is decided in the kitchen, no additional substrates do not need to do.
Important: Linoleum is placed on special glue. If the tile is too glossy, then its surface can be sanded in order to create a better grip between the tile and linoleum surfaces.
Stroke work
First, the carved linoleum spreads indoors. He must lie down at least a day to disclose and take the floor shape.Linoleum is developing in the longitudinal direction. Every half it is smeared with glue. Also glue covers the surface of the tile. After 20 minutes, which are required to absorb glue, you can start styling. First one half of the linoleum is glued, and then another. When laying, they are trying to immediately smooth out the surface of the linoleum, so that it will be smooth, without a chance. Plinths are installed after the linoleum in the kitchen is sticking.
Instructions for laying linoleum on old coating (video)
Laying tiles on linoleum
Much more often the situation occurs when it is necessary to put the tile on the linoleum. In this case, the state of the linoleum itself is also taken into account and the ability to use it as a base.If the linoleum has sufficient rigidity, it does not have damage and is not unwound anywhere, it can be considered a good basis for laying tiles. The tile is equally well glued to concrete, plywood, vinyl base of linoleum. The main thing is that Linoleum is really not new and stopped being elastic. The tile laying itself is produced, as usual - on the tile mixture or special tile glue.
Put one sexual coating in the kitchen is quite possible. The main thing is that they, as the basis, were smooth. And then there will be no problems with the new floor.
Rules laying tiles on the floor (video)
Conclusion
To lay a laminated flooring on linoleum, tile, parquet does not represent any difficulties. It can be done with your own hands and this will significantly speed up the repair work.