The size is 12' x 6' and i just don't like the look of laminated floor
in the kitchen. A HAndyman recommended that I cover it with self
sticking vinyl by Armstrong for budget reasons. He said the floor is
solid, so all I need is to cover it myself. he refused to take the
job, because its so easy that I could do it, and thought it was a
crime to take the money to do it . Is there anything that i should do
to the wooden floor before adding the tiles, other than sweeping and
soft mop it?

Noel wrote in news:6ae45564-3dfb-456a-b58a-
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The size is 12' x 6' and i just don't like the look of laminated floor
in the kitchen. A HAndyman recommended that I cover it with self
sticking vinyl by Armstrong for budget reasons. He said the floor is
solid, so all I need is to cover it myself. he refused to take the
job, because its so easy that I could do it, and thought it was a
crime to take the money to do it . Is there anything that i should do
to the wooden floor before adding the tiles, other than sweeping and
soft mop it?


Glued or floating? If he said it's so easy I'm thinking floating.

If floating, just take it up. You don't want it naturally expanding and
contracting with something on top.

"Well, it looks great at 72 degrees and 40% humidity."

Hardest part should be getting the first piece up. The rest should come
apart like a puzzle.

"Well, it looks great at 72 degrees and 40% humidity."

Red Green wrote:
Noel wrote in news:6ae45564-3dfb-456a-b58a-
:

The size is 12' x 6' and i just don't like the look of laminated floor
in the kitchen. A HAndyman recommended that I cover it with self
sticking vinyl by Armstrong for budget reasons. He said the floor is
solid, so all I need is to cover it myself. he refused to take the
job, because its so easy that I could do it, and thought it was a
crime to take the money to do it . Is there anything that i should do
to the wooden floor before adding the tiles, other than sweeping and
soft mop it?


Glued or floating? If he said it's so easy I'm thinking floating.

If floating, just take it up. You don't want it naturally expanding and
contracting with something on top.

"Well, it looks great at 72 degrees and 40% humidity."

Hardest part should be getting the first piece up. The rest should come
apart like a puzzle.

"Well, it looks great at 72 degrees and 40% humidity."
Replacing one ugly floor with an even uglier one hardly seems like a
worthwhile investment. And ugly as it is, that laminate would likely
last longer than self-stick tiles would. In damp heavy-traffic areas
like a kitchen in front of the sink, they have a real bad habit of
floating around, popping off, or just getting nasty black joints.

I'd just put a cheap throw rug with a non-slip backing over it, while
you save up for a proper sheet vinyl floor. Kitchen size remnants are
pretty cheap, if you can stand to hit the local flooring stores once a
week for a while till a piece big enough, in a pattern you can stand,
shows up. Then walk around back and talk to their contract installer
while he is on a smoke break- a lot of them do side installs after work
for cash, cheap. Mine sure didn't hesitate, and gave me a good price for
good work.

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On Feb 22, 4:17*pm, Red Green wrote:
Noel wrote in news:6ae45564-3dfb-456a-b58a-
:

The size is 12' x 6' and i just don't like the look of laminated floor
in the kitchen. A HAndyman recommended that I cover it with self
sticking vinyl by Armstrong for budget reasons. He said the floor is
solid, so all I need is *to cover it myself. he refused to take the
job, because its so easy that I could do it, and thought it was a
crime to take the money to do it . Is there anything that i should do
to the wooden floor before adding the tiles, other than sweeping and
soft mop it?

Glued or floating? If he said it's so easy I'm thinking floating.

If floating, just take it up. You don't want it naturally expanding and
contracting with something on top.

* * * * "Well, it looks great at 72 degrees and 40% humidity."

Hardest part should be getting the first piece up. The rest should come
apart like a puzzle.

* * * * "Well, it looks great at 72 degrees and 40% humidity."


Unless there is something radically wrong with the existing laminate,
there is no need to take it up to put down self-stick tiles. They
will go over existing flooring.

However, I don't see what the compelling need to switch to viny tiles
is. They look as bad or probably worse than laminate.