How To Install Vinyl Sheet Flooring Over Carpet

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How to install vinyl sheet flooring over carpet. Use this helpful how to guide for installing sheet vinyl flooring. In addition skim coating provides a good adhesive surface for any vinyl sheet or vinyl plank that will be glued down. Roll firmly over the entire floor. Sheet vinyl can be installed over concrete if the surface of the concrete is clean it s also easier to maintain.

Lay vinyl down with a few dabs of construction adhesive not around the carpet wrap seams adhesive 5. Buy some carpet wrap. The adhesive used to lay the vinyl down needs a clean smooth surface to stick to. Strip and clean the existing floor.

Bond any seams with a seam sealer following the manufacturer s directions. Any existing orders will be honoured until 14 december 2018. Our homefit service will no longer be available from the 9 july 2018. This smooths over the current vinyl pattern and prevents it from showing through a new vinyl sheet on top.

Roll the new floor from inside to outside with a flooring roller to finish bonding the vinyl to the subfloor. It will hold well enough. However a floor patch product usually needs to be applied called skim coating. Unlike tile a sheet vinyl floor can be applied directly to a plywood subfloor without a concrete backer.

Even though it s n. Put it on every sq inch of your room 10.