Nasty laminate

bouicca21

On behalf of a friend ...

She has a room with cheap nasty laminate and wishes to put carpet down instead. Is it ok just to carpet on top of the laminate or should it be pulled up?

drummer_666

Seems a waste of time to rip it up, so long as it's down firm. I don't see the difference between carpeting over laminate, to carpeting over floorboards

macman

You can put underlay and then carpet, but in that case the doors will probably need trimming.
Remember that laminate flooring is not fixed down, it just 'floats'.

McKneff

People tend to forget about the doors:D

Dan-Dan

yes they do , because i read this thread having the exact same problem , saw that you can lay straight over then got to post #3 !

bouicca21

Yep - we didn't think about the doors either. But at least that seems to be the only issue, and tbh I've known carpet alone cause the same problem (which is why, durr, we should have have thought of it).

katejo

bouicca21 wrote: »

Yep - we didn't think about the doors either. But at least that seems to be the only issue, and tbh I've known carpet alone cause the same problem (which is why, durr, we should have have thought of it).

Has the friend considered getting a large rug instead? Then she wouldn't have a door problem.

tweets

bouicca21 wrote: »

On behalf of a friend ...

She has a room with cheap nasty laminate and wishes to put carpet down instead. Is it ok just to carpet on top of the laminate or should it be pulled up?

I have had carpet over laminate in bedroom and its ok have no trouble with the bedroom door opening and closing. HTH

john.h

Just rip the laminate up... what will it take? 30 mins maximum to pull it all up.

John..

I_have_spoken

I had hideous laminate, carpet fitters advised get rid; ripped it up but kept the 3mm underlay and put the carpet underlay on top of that. Doors are fine.