underlay

Hi, thank you for any help if you can. We've been decorating the living room and we'll need to change the carpet in our old house. Under the existing carpet boards sit directly on top of the concrete. Some of them are a bit warped. Should we remove all the boards and put the carpet and underlay...

Hi everyone, I'm going to be laying laminate flooring in my new house. Will be removing the current carpet. The underfloor is fibreboard suspended on wooden beams (these wooden beams are suspended on metal beams). I picked laminate flooring and want to choose "Volden Aquastop 3mm" underlay since...

I'm redecorating the back bedroom of a 1930s house and when taking up the carpet and underlay found this underneath. It's a thin wood sheet layer stained black. It's only a few mm thick but would it likely affect the floor height of the 5mm underlay and laminate I'm going to put on enough to...

Hi, I’m laying Click LVT to my kitchen and downstairs hallway - about 15m2 in total. I have an old concrete floor to lay on but where it’s been latexes over the years, there is some slight undulation peaks/troughs. I’m also over laying some old asbestos floor tiles in the hall. Is there a...

Some info: I've got 10mm laminate, going onto 5mm foam gold foil backed underlay with a chipboard subfloor. Questions: 1. Do you need to run the underlay up the wall a few inches instead of just flush to the wall edges, then cut it away at the end? Why is this? Seems a faff with the spacers...

So I have these click engineered boards that are 2200mm x 180mm, and 14mm thick. I’m laying them on a chipboard subfloor on joists on the 1st floor. The chipboard is sound and mostly flat. The company i bought the boards from recommended 3mm rubber crumb underlay with a silver vapour barrier...

Hello, I'm planning to lay Karndean Korlok in my flat. I've removed my old engineered wood floor. Underneath that I have a 6mm black rubber Tredaire underlay for acoustic insulation. Do I have to remove it before laying the Karndean? Their instructions say their flooring needs no underlay, but...

My living room is on ground floor. It has a suspended wooden floor over a large vented cavity (several feet deep). It gets pretty cold in winter. I want to get carpet in this room; both for comfort and to increase the warmth/insulation in the colder months. I’m aware that doing under-floor...

I've got a room which is being fitted with a 10mm underlay and carpet by a fitter this week. From fitting laminate flooring elsewhere in the house, I purchased a polythene vapour barrier from Wickes and have plenty left over. The carpet is being fitted in a room that is naturally pretty cold...

Hi I plan to install laminate flooring on the first floor of my house. I have removed all carpets and previous underlay and cleaned the floorboards beneath. Due to it being the first floor I’d like a good noise reducing underlay. I am currently torn between 3 options: - Vitrex premier 5mm (screw...

We've had a big garden studio built, and in an effort to save money on the escalating costs of having it done out (and because we didn't like any of the laminate options available to us), we opted to finish the flooring ourselves. We want to keep costs down, so are looking to install simple...

We are about to order some underlay to go with a new Seattle Lavastone carpet in a bedroom. The carpet is 16mm Saxony pile with an Action Hessian backing. Is Cloud 9 Cirrus 9mm thick underlay suitable? Tredaire has a similar spec but I can get the Cloud 9 cheaper. Is it ok to lay the underlay...

Not long before we have a carpet fitted (with underlay) in our front bedroom once plastering and decorating completed - normal floorboards with a small void (where you can see some dust, debris and wiring) between this room and the lounge underneath. Does anyone know if you need to 'fill' gaps...

Hi guys, I’m currently in the process of buying carpet for my whole house (living room and lounge, bedrooms, stairs and landing). I’ve been reading online and have seen a lot of recommendations for the Cloud 9 Cumulus. However, on looking at density it seems the Connoisseur has a higher...

Chaps, A quickie that I'd rather was specific'y... I'm told that 3mm tolerance is ok for 14mm thick engineered oak flooring. Seems a bit 'bouncy' in places underfoot after my test lay of first couple rows. (Dip check off straight edge shows no more than 3mm) Should I be concerned or push on...

Hi there, We have already bought our 18mm thick tongue and groove Solid Oak Flooring, that is pre oiled. It's also very heavy and weighs approx 700kg across 50 sq metres. It is currently being acclimatised for 7 days. The concrete sub floor has has been self levelled and is mostly very level...

I am in the process of lifting a living room carpet to put down laminate. There is already a very good quality underlay on top of a plywood floor. There is no damp. It seems crazy to lift it and replace with something else. Would this work?

I am laying an engineered wooden floor in my first floor bedroom. Transition The hallway outside the bedroom is carpeted, and so was the bedroom. So there is a brass grip strip along the door threshold. What is the best way to replace this strip so that the carpet is kept tacked down, but...

Evening - I've got a new screed floor and another area I self levelled 'reasonably' well. Its not perfect. Is Quickstep's thermolevel underlay as good as it sounds? They reckon it deals with up to 4mm level difference? Any experience of using it? Cheers.

Hi all, we ordered some numbers of samples from different shops of engineered t+G oak floor. All of the samples we received (bar one) have the ply substrate made out of thinner strips laid next to each other, as opposed to one unique piece of plywood. On the other hand, when I look online at...