laying carpet on top of laminate flooring

[kd]

Is this a good idea or does it create problems?

[ben]

problems like what? no difference than laying carpet on floor boards. :-)

[Christian McArdle]

It can be an issue, as the laminate is floating. Can't the laminate be removed?

Christian.

[ben]

So what problem is it going to cause? and lets be honest floating is minium. Doesn't carpet float on underlay. :-)

[Christian McArdle]

Not when it is stapled/grippered down at the edges.

It can't take more than 10 or 15 minutes to rip out the laminate though.

Christian.

[ben]

Heh!

And then you have to dispose of it. I cannot for the life of me see any problems laying carpet over laminate and I would go as far as to say a completely flat surface for carpet is more better than laying it over bumpy floorboards or uneven concrete, depending whats underneath his floor.

[Richard Conway]

But that can just get silly - what do you do when you want new carpet - use the existing as underlay? At some point somebody is going to have to pull up several layers and bin them all - why not do it properly and get rid now?

[dazzle]

I would say take up the laminate - you are raising the level of your floor and would prob look silly against your skirting boards. Do the job properly.

[Richard Conway]

What you shouting at me for - its the OP who is being lazy :)

I think it would cause a dodgy step across the doorways as well.

[John Schmitt]

It does rather look like the predictions about school being back are correct. Either that or a careless parent has failed to password lock their computer. Has anyone a cat which randomly types on a keyboard, thus nearly, but not completely vindicating the monkeys/typewriters/Shakespeare theory? Tensioning the carpet onto the grippers will ultimately result in a concave floor if not fixed to the floorboards. Also there will be a small step created, which, depwnding on the swing of the door, will possibly necessitate the planing down the door bottom.

John Schmitt

[ben]

Is that what you do? put carpets over carpets instead of pulling the old carpet up.

You exaggerating somewhat methinks.

[ben]

How do you know the skirting is not on top of the laminate?

[Richard Conway]

No.

No, just pointing out that it isn't always appropriate to simply put new things over old things - sometimes it pays off to make the effort to do the job properly.

[ben]

the way I see it should he decide or whoever lives in the property in a few years time to have laminate down,its there if needed. :-)

[Richard Conway]

Okay, to be really sad and reply to my own post - it doesn't just pay off sometimes, but most of the time.

[Richard Conway]

The carpet grippers round the edge would complement it well I'm sure!

[Tony Bryer]

Seen that. One of my teenage memories is my dad paying me to take nine layers of wallpaper off a house he'd bought - and this before the days of steam strippers

[Richard Conway]

You should have taken them off one at a time until you found one he liked!

[ben]

John Schmitt wrote: [snip]

Isn't it amazing how some people resort to being personal and insulting when you have them in a tight corner. lol

[S Viemeister]

Our first house had 70s gold/brown shag carpet over 60s green shag carpet over beautiful hand-cut and pieced 12" oak parquet blocks, with a border which included walnut strips worked into a knot design in the corners. I spent 2 weeks on hands and knees cleaning and polishing it. It looked absolutely gorgeous when I was done. Re-doing the floor in the kitchen was like doing domestic archaeology.

Sheila