Second hand Laminate flooring

Katgrit

I'm currently doing up my house to sell, so I can relocate back home near my family. I'm always cautious with money and am understanding that to get a reasonably quick sale I may have to accept less than I originally bought for. Not good, but my priority is to get back home.

I have repainted the puke green and peach walls to neural colours, decluttered, taken down all the "personal" photos and shifted the unneccessary furniture into the garage. The "unique" kitchen was not only rotting and damp in places, but was made from reclaimed wood, and looked like someone had made it with a chainsaw and a bag of nails. So I've had it ripped out and a new one put in (bought at trade price and fitted by a friend) Oven, cooker hood and worktop discontinued stock, hob, mixer tap and even kitchen sink from ebay. The bathroom is Victorian style, not to my taste, but its clean and white so it'll have to do, and freshly painted walls. Some of the carpets are pale green, but not worth changing. Its all been done on the cheap (but not shoddily!)and if I ended up staying here I'd be more than happy with the place.

The ONLY thing letting the house down is the old kitchen floor. Its orangey brown tiles, but as the old units weren't standard size theres now a 2 inch gap in front of the kickboards. The new kitchen is very light bright and airy, and I feel a new lighter floor would match much better. I'm basically wanting to just get the house on the market now but without much more outlay. I'd planned to just buying a lino end of role and throw it down over the tiles, and somehow fill the gap by building up underneath (this bit won't ever be walked on - its just were your toes would touch as you stood at the worktop). I've been offered some second hand laminate, and I'm thinking this would give a more uniform surface than lino straight on tiles. The laminate is the click variety rather than glued. Am i mad considering trying to relay it? How easy is laminate to re-use? I need 10m² and I've been offered 14 so theres plenty to spare.

I just need something quick and cheap. I'd keep the tiles and just hope potential buyers didn't notice the gap too much, if it wasn't for them being so dark and looking out of place. I'd even paint the floor if it was possible. Is the laminate a real none starter? I'm female and don't have anyone round to help but I'm not afraid to tackle difficult and faffy tasks.

Any ideas? I really am on a budget.

phill99

Just don't do it.

Laminate flooring never re-lays well. The locking mechanism is easily damaged when it's lifted. It will look like a dogs dinner.

You can get cheap new laminate flooring for £3.50 a square metre at Magnet Express. Not the best quality but by far a better option than second hand.

toejumper

we took up laminate from our kitchen to relay into our dds bedroom but it just wouldn't click back together right so in the end we had to go out and buy new, personally i wouldn't buy second hand and try and replay it.

Katgrit

Will take a look at Magnet. cheers!

carebabe

what about painting the tiles with a light coloured floor paint. also see if your joiner could find a way of bringing the kick boards out to cover the gap. tiles would have to be thoroughly de-greased and keyed before painting.

phill99

Katgrit wrote: »

Will take a look at Magnet. cheers!

Remember it's Magnet Express.

Store locator:

http://www.magnetexpress.com

Norman_Castle

I've lifted and refitted parts of my laminate flooring without a problem. Removing it carefully and checking the joins for bits before refitting helps. Depending on how time rich and money poor you are, careful removal and refitting might work. If it looks bad you can remove it again.
I did a 12x12 foot room with ikea flooring for about £80 including underlay. Easy to fit and looks fine.