Hello,
In my new build, I have an open-plan kitchen, dining, and living area.
There is an expansion joint in the kitchen area and also one in the living room itself. In the kitchen, it’s exactly where the island is supposed to be. In the living room, it’s right in the middle of the room. Really frustrating.
I want to install floating click vinyl flooring and have two questions. Additionally, I am using a 2mm (0.08 inch) thick acoustic underlay:
1. Can I simply install my click vinyl flooring with the additional 2mm (0.08 inch) acoustic underlay over both expansion joints? Or can I place a joint in the vinyl flooring somewhere else that fits better?
2. Can I assemble the kitchen and island on top of the vinyl? Or should the kitchen be installed first and the flooring put in afterwards?
Thanks for your tips and knowledge.
In my new build, I have an open-plan kitchen, dining, and living area.
There is an expansion joint in the kitchen area and also one in the living room itself. In the kitchen, it’s exactly where the island is supposed to be. In the living room, it’s right in the middle of the room. Really frustrating.
I want to install floating click vinyl flooring and have two questions. Additionally, I am using a 2mm (0.08 inch) thick acoustic underlay:
1. Can I simply install my click vinyl flooring with the additional 2mm (0.08 inch) acoustic underlay over both expansion joints? Or can I place a joint in the vinyl flooring somewhere else that fits better?
2. Can I assemble the kitchen and island on top of the vinyl? Or should the kitchen be installed first and the flooring put in afterwards?
Thanks for your tips and knowledge.
Chrizz72 schrieb:
This is not really related. But why vinyl and why floating installation?We like vinyl by far the best, and we chose a floating installation so it can flex and expand as needed.After installing the screed, we reinforced the joints with resin, glued the vinyl, and after 1.5 years, no cracks have appeared so far. However, I seem to have read that click vinyl does not handle the weight of the kitchen well and should ideally be installed up to the kitchen area.
Keywords: underfloor heating and impact sound insulation (insulated?)
Have you ever considered glued vinyl?
Keywords: underfloor heating and impact sound insulation (insulated?)
Have you ever considered glued vinyl?
With floating installation, the joint doesn’t matter since the floor will expand over it anyway.
Lay click vinyl flooring right up to the kitchen, otherwise nothing will be floating in the kitchen anymore.
I installed click vinyl throughout our entire house (except the bathroom) and would do the same again if I were building another house. Especially if you do it yourself, I found advantages in click vinyl compared to glue-down flooring. But to each their own.
Lay click vinyl flooring right up to the kitchen, otherwise nothing will be floating in the kitchen anymore.
I installed click vinyl throughout our entire house (except the bathroom) and would do the same again if I were building another house. Especially if you do it yourself, I found advantages in click vinyl compared to glue-down flooring. But to each their own.
@"Adam26a":
Could you please post an overall floor plan of the ground floor and mark the planned movement joints in the screed?
I would like to review the joint layout.
But here are my two initial comments:
With underfloor heating, a glued floor covering is preferable. The impact sound insulation you are additionally planning can be omitted with glued constructions, as it is not effective. The effective impact sound insulation is located beneath the screed!
For floating constructions, it is advisable to adjust them to kitchen islands, so that the kitchen island is not placed directly on the floating floor. As "DeepRed" already pointed out, heavy loads should be treated with caution if they cannot compensate for their dimensional changes elsewhere in the floor area. If nothing can move, stresses in the floating floor covering will increase. This means: waves in the floor level.
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But please send the joint layout first.
Regards, KlaRa
Could you please post an overall floor plan of the ground floor and mark the planned movement joints in the screed?
I would like to review the joint layout.
But here are my two initial comments:
With underfloor heating, a glued floor covering is preferable. The impact sound insulation you are additionally planning can be omitted with glued constructions, as it is not effective. The effective impact sound insulation is located beneath the screed!
For floating constructions, it is advisable to adjust them to kitchen islands, so that the kitchen island is not placed directly on the floating floor. As "DeepRed" already pointed out, heavy loads should be treated with caution if they cannot compensate for their dimensional changes elsewhere in the floor area. If nothing can move, stresses in the floating floor covering will increase. This means: waves in the floor level.
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But please send the joint layout first.
Regards, KlaRa
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