Installing Pergo Over Vinyl Flooring

Some pergo laminate products feature attached underlayment.

Installing pergo over vinyl flooring.

1 remove the molding called quarter round along the edge of the baseboard with a pry bar. Installing a floating laminate floor may be an ideal way to cover your old vinyl flooring. Remember that laminate flooring like swiss krono usa s laminate wood flooring is a floating floor it will expand and contract as temperature and other conditions change. Laminate flooring on an uneven subfloor can cause problems and needs to be addressed.

Double sided tape can be used under the floor to help seams stay put but no adhesive is spread over every square inch of the subfloor. Pergo laminate and locking engineered planks simply click together. This means that the choice of subfloor i e what you install laminate over needs to provide the right support. The floor can have an unlevel subfloor and still have a base for a nice laminate floor.

So where feasible it makes sense to install the new flooring directly over the old without removing the old flooring. The ragged edge of the flooring is then covered over with quarter round or base molding. Then starting in the far corner of the room lay the first tile down against the wall removing the tongue so it s flush with the wall. This isn t possible with every flooring material but it s often possible to install ceramic porcelain or stone tile over resilient flooring including standard sheet vinyl vinyl tile or linoleum.

First uninstall the existing vinyl and clean off the subfloor making sure it is flat smooth and dry. Pergo can be installed directly over most hard surface flooring. Based on what you described to us you can go ahead and install laminate flooring over the old vinyl that is glued to the subfloor. No glue no nails no mess.

This makes a floating floor much easier to install and remove than a nonfloating floor but it also allows the floor to expand move shift and bubble in certain circumstances. Pergo hardwood must be installed above grade. Consider installing thin floorings such as luxury vinyl laminate or tile which are possible to lay right up to the cabinets. To install pergo flooring start by covering the floor with with vapor barrier sheets all the way to the walls and taping any seams.