Can You Put Vinyl on Carpet

You can lay your vinyl planks over your carpet if you cannot strip it off your floor for one reason or another. Depending on what type of carpet you have on your floor, you can lay your vinyl planks directly on top of it, or you can put a wooden board over the carpet first before laying the planks.

Can you install vinyl over carpet?

You can lay your vinyl planks over your carpet if you cannot strip it off your floor for one reason or another. Depending on what type of carpet you have on your floor, you can lay your vinyl planks directly on top of it, or you can put a wooden board over the carpet first before laying the planks.

Can you lay vinyl flooring over carpet underlay?

As carpet underlays are generally thicker than what is needed, reaching up to 10 mm in thickness, it would not be advisable to install vinyl over it. Having this thick underlay under the vinyl will make the flooring unstable.