Floating Floor Over Carpet

Floating floors are not for every installation or everyone floating floors can solve a host of issues like not having to remove asbestos flooring and floating a floor right over it.

Floating floor over carpet.

Hi elain thanks for the question. The most common type of floors floated over carpet are vinyl and laminate given they are budget friendly and feature a simple interlocking system of installation. Before you worry about how to install carpet tiles over carpet you should know that there are two ways to do this. We didn t know enough about our future to justify the time and expense.

Here s a link to a success story over fluffy carpet if you d like to try it. Well actually there are three but one of them involves straight carpet on carpet which is never a good idea. A rug over carpet. Here s an overview of the two methods.

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. Wood laminate flooring directly over the carpet. Armorlock plates these plates act as a mechanical floating floor. It sounds like the flooring is adding too much cushion and compromising the flooring joints with the noise.

If your engineered floor is floating you should be able to carefully uninstall and re install it.