Installing Pergo Flooring Over Carpet

Installing laminate flooring over carpet is not recommended in most installation situations.

Installing pergo flooring over carpet.

We didn t know enough about our future to justify the time and expense. Read more about vinyl flooring. Pergo floors make it easy because. The most common type of floors floated over carpet are vinyl and laminate given they are budget friendly and feature a simple interlocking system of installation.

Since carpet is usually plush and soft your laminate flooring would not have the support it needs to keep the locking system sturdy. Wood laminate flooring directly over the carpet. 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. Pergo laminate and locking engineered planks simply click together.

Pergo can be installed directly over most hard surface flooring. This means that the choice of subfloor i e what you install laminate over needs to provide the right support. If there is too much give to the floor underneath the locking system would be strained causing the floor to buckle and. No glue no nails no mess.

Vinyl planks vinyl planks are designed to resemble hardwood and can be found in a number of wood look textures such as hand scraped wirebrushed and distressed.