Installing Pergo Over Vinyl Flooring

First uninstall the existing vinyl and clean off the subfloor making sure it is flat smooth and dry.

Installing pergo over vinyl flooring.

Pergo laminate and engineered flooring can be installed on any level of your home. So where feasible it makes sense to install the new flooring directly over the old without removing the old 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. 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 laminate and locking engineered planks simply click together. 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. Pergo can be installed directly over most hard surface flooring. 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.

1 remove the molding called quarter round along the edge of the baseboard with a pry bar. To install pergo flooring start by covering the floor with with vapor barrier sheets all the way to the walls and taping any seams. Pergo hardwood must be installed above grade. The ragged edge of the flooring is then covered over with quarter round or base molding.

Consider installing thin floorings such as luxury vinyl laminate or tile which are possible to lay right up to the cabinets. Laminate flooring on an uneven subfloor can cause problems and needs to be addressed. The floor can have an unlevel subfloor and still have a base for a nice laminate floor. This means that the choice of subfloor i e what you install laminate over needs to provide the right support.

Some pergo laminate products feature attached underlayment. 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. No glue no nails no mess. Ceramic and stone tile vinyl and laminate flooring tile and sheet linoleum hardwood planks and decorative concrete can all be installed over existing linoleum.