Lino over carpet?

The lino will crack. You might get away with it for longer if it's really thin exhibition type carpet.

Carpet over carpet may work better.

Or the previous occupants of my flat laid ceramic tiles over the kitchen carpet. :-(

Owain

That was to make it easier to replace them. Non of that fuss about removing the old tile adhesive from the floor. It's the future.

It didn't have that effect. The carpet was glued to the floor by the tile adhesive soaking through and it all had to be chiselled off.

Owain

Ick.

I wouldn't do it, even on my worst bodgiest day. Getting the carpet out is normally a quick process

NT

Rip it up - clean it up and lay those foam panels and then interlocked laminate flooring.

If the carpet is quite soft and springy, you might get away with a vinyl floor covering over it, but true Lino cracks and tears very easily and it ages quite quickly. So really it depends what your floor covering is made from and how it deforms and comes back, or not as the case may be.

Brian

What? Ceramic tiles, really? they must surely crack in the end or trip people up surely? Brian

And a health and safety nightmare as they tilt and edges are revealed. Brian

Besides what about the furniture?

No if its the foam backed carpet then you are going to need a very good vacuum cleaner as well an something to chip off the stuff stuck to the edging tape or floor if its ever been washed. Brian

I've not even seen real lino for sale in years. Of course it may still be available in more specialist flooring outlets but the common ones tend to sell vinyl.

Having seen vinyl, which is more flexible, split, even on poor wooden/chipboard floors, I would think lino (if you can find it) or vinyl would do the same over carpet- at least over time.

I suppose you could put down thin plywood- as you can over a poor/uneven floor- first but that is probably more work/more expensive than removing the carpet (assuming the floor is sound).

Of course, the carpet plus plywood may offer some insulation in terms of heat and sound but, all in all, it is bodge. If you want insulation, go for the proper insulation sheets.

This is a pure bodge, but I came across some LVT that had a very hard solid core. I can't remember the exact term used. It was about £20 sqm.

If you are going for vinyl sheet (not lino, surely?) you'll need to spend a fair whack anyway.

Because of the solid core, it's quite rigid, and it might hold together okay on a soft backing like carpet.

Or go the whole hog and get engineered wood flooring?

Only if you skim it first :-)

the carpet fibres would reinforce it. You could probably make the floor itself outta that if thick enough.

NT