Can I Put Wood Floors Over Carpet

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Can i put wood floors over carpet.

Installing carpeting over a hardwood floor is not a difficult task but it does require some physical labor. If you re tired of wood flooring install carpet right over the hardwood flooring. Sure i d get my security deposit back but i d have to live with a disgusting 8 x 10 cover up in the meantime. It stays in place under the weight of the laminate especially when you add furniture on top of that.

Installing hardwood floors can cost between 9 and 12 per square foot compared with about 3 to 5 per square foot for carpet so some homeowners opt to install hardwood floors only in some. Vinyl planks are designed to resemble hardwood and can be found in a number of wood look textures such as hand scraped wirebrushed and distressed. It s in your best interest to uninstall the carpet and underlayment and install your floating floor ontop of the subfloor. Second if any moisture was to get in between the plywood and carpet you can have an underlying mold issue.

As other have noted it will not work well with thick carpet only low pile commercial carpet the type you normally see in office buildings. We just lay it right on top of the carpet and then put the hardwood on top of that. By installing a narrow tackless strip that grips the outer perimeter of the carpet. The first it will be too much cushion under the plywood to be a properly supported subfloor for the laminate.

Wood laminate flooring directly over the carpet. We have done this twice now because we moved and it has never shifted or caused any problem. We didn t know enough about our future to justify the time and expense.