We spent the day laying vinyl flooring over vinyl flooring. As always I will certainly note all devices as well as materials you will require to lay vinyl flooring over vinyl flooring.
Materials:
Your brand-new vinyl flooring
Vinyl flooring adhesive (we used a releasable stress delicate adhesive from Chap-co).
Skim coat.
Finish nails.
caulking( try and also match the color of your floor covering).
Blue painters tape.
Otherwise reusing old wall as well as limits your will certainly require to acquire new.
Devices:.
Razor blade (hook blade as well as conventional blade).
Hammer & level bar.
Stonework Trowel.
Vacuum cleaner.
End up nail weapon( hammer as well as nail collection will also function).
Miter Saw( not needed if reusing old moulding).
Paint brush & roller( if using releasable stress delicate adhesive, with some adhesives you will need a 1/8 scratched floor tile trowel to spread your glue, always ensure to review as well as follow the suppliers instructions on container).
Caulking gun.
2×4 wrapped in carpeting or a towel.
Being a property owner you will more than likely very own these devices. Otherwise, you can pick them up at your local hardware store and also not have to stress as you will be able to use any one of these noted devices time and time again.
- To start with as well as most obviously you will need to clean out the area. If its your kitchen area it is constantly best to remove your fridge and also range to run the flooring under them.
Using your hammer as well as level bar, it’s time to eliminate any kind of base board moulding or quarter round trim from around the sides of your flooring. Seeing as your going with a brand brand-new floor I would certainly recommend changing all the moulding.
- Check your flooring. Look for bubbles and loose locations. Utilizing your razor blade, w/ a basic blade, cut out as well as remove these negative areas.
- Vacuum cleaner the flooring of all dirt as well as particles to maintain it out of your skim coat.
- Currently it’s time to skim coat the flooring. We utilized a Henry 547 Universal Patch & Skim Coat. This skim coat merely obtains mixed with water. Adhere to the directions on the bundle of whatever skim coat you select to use. , if you are filling in areas where it will certainly be thicker you will desire to fill those areas with a thicker mix.. Utilizing your stonework trowel, spread out the skim coat across the entire flooring. This will complete the locations you required to eliminate in addition to any type of structure in the existing plastic. Even if you don’t require to reduce any kind of locations out, your brand-new vinyl will certainly gobble tight to the old floor covering so much that you will certainly see the texture of the old floor come through to your brand-new flooring. This is a necessary action and also is what makes laying vinyl flooring over vinyl flooring feasible.
- Wrap it up, you’re provided for regarding 14-18 hrs relying on how much time your skim coat item needs to set and dry.
Using your trowel scrape off any drips or any kind of lines you left. The trick to the skim coat is to get it flawlessly level as feasible.
- Vacuum the whole flooring very extensively. Any particles you leave on your flooring will be translucented the new vinyl.
- Now it is time to eliminate your brand-new vinyl flooring. There are a couple means you might wish to tackle this. You can just take measurements and attract a layout on your own to follow. An additional method is to get a roll of construction paper, lay it out and reduce yourself a pattern. Regardless you select to do this you require to make certain to leave a good 2 inches all the way around. The hook blade works wonderful for removing your new floor. If you are utilizing a really felt backed plastic you will certainly require to make alleviation cuts in the inside edges of your new floor covering. You will likewise require to tape these corners with blue painters tape to enhance them. Really felt backed vinyl is fragile. It will certainly tear and fracture on you particularly in those edges. If you are making use of a sheet plastic item you will certainly not need to fret about this.
Bring your new flooring right into the location and thoroughly spread it as well as lay it down where it goes. If you are utilizing a floor that has straight lines running with it you will want to make certain you have those lines lined up exactly how you want them prior to you reduce your floor.
- It’s time for glue as soon as you have your floor all reduced out and also prepared to go. with the releasable pressure sensitive sticky you will have the ability to merely paint it on the flooring. Other adhesives may require a notched trowel. Read and follow the instructions on the adhesive you are making use of. The releasable adhesive is advised, by the manufacturer, for sheet plastic product. Fold up back one side of your floor covering about halfway back. Vinyl flooring manufacturer Spread your adhesive. If you desire a long-term bond with the releasable sticky you will not intend to allow it dry completely. As soon as the glue prepares, carefully lay your vinyl back where it was on the flooring. Utilizing a size of 2×4 covered in rug( or wrapped in a towel) press and also slide out the flooring towards the outside sides. This is mosting likely to dislodge wrinkles as well as bubbles, guaranteeing a tight bond. Repeat this for the opposite side of your flooring.
If you try making use of the old items as layouts they will all run slightly bigger and will not fit in their areas. If you weren’t able to obtain your floor perfect as well as there are some locations that aren’t totally covered, either by the base board or brand-new floor covering (i.e. around doorways and also their trim), you can utilize caulking to fill in these areas.
- Some glues call for waiting a while to completely dry, before relocating any type of furnishings or home appliances on top of it. An excellent guideline would certainly be to wait a couple hours prior to relocating points back, but simply see what the product your using suggests and also comply with that.
This is what makes laying vinyl flooring over vinyl flooring possible. The structure of your old flooring WILL show via on your new plastic if you do not skim coat it.
I mentioned really felt back/paper back vinyl and also whats called sheet plastic. Vinyl itself is a very affordable material for a wonderful looking brand new floor. The rate range in between your cheaper( felt backed, cracks and also rips VERY quickly) and also your better( sheet vinyl, will not break, tear or crease) plastics isn’t a large difference. Sheet plastic is a lot less complicated to collaborate with and lay. The difference in rate will certainly be well worth the aggravation of installing it. As well as if you purchase the more affordable vinyl and also it splits, your mosting likely to need to either purchase a vinyl joint bonding item or head out as well as buy one more item of plastic. We highly advise utilizing a sheet vinyl product with a releasable stress sensitive adhesive for best results.
