Laminate on carpet?
 

Is this an absolutely terrible idea?

Having just fitted laminate to two rooms I noticed how much of the job
entails ripping up the old carpet, underlay, gripper rods, then cleaning
and fitting fiberboard underlay for the laminate. I am using the
floormaster glueless variety.

About to start the third room when an idea occurs to me. There is
reasonably decent carpet down. Could I use this as the underlay and
simply put the laminate over it? It is a first floor room - so
damp-proof membrane not required. I can also easily cope with the
additional floor height this would involve.

Is this feasible or completely crazy?

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Matthew Barnard

Laminate on carpet?
 

"Grunff" wrote in message
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Matthew Barnard wrote:
Is this an absolutely terrible idea?

IMO yes, it's a bad idea. The laminate joins will spread because
the carpet will allow it to flex too much.

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Grunff


You can lay a laminate floor on top of carpet, as long as the carpet and
underlay are less than 7mm thick and they're laid on top of wooden
floorboards, chipboard parquet, vinyl, rubber or linoleum. You'll need to
remove the carpet or underlay if it's thicker than 7mm or if it's laid on a
concrete, cement screed or bitumen floor.

HTH

Brian

Laminate on carpet?
 

You can lay a laminate floor on top of carpet, as long as the carpet and
underlay are less than 7mm thick


Thanks - that's very helpful. Out of interest - what is it about 7mm
that makes it the threshold for this sort of thing?
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Matthew Barnard