Removing Carpet And Installing Vinyl Flooring

The subfloor sits on top of the floor joists and provides a smooth level surface for installing any type of flooring.

Removing carpet and installing vinyl flooring.

You can generally save yourself a bit of money and you can ensure that the floor below is prepared or preserved to your standards. Moisture can also emanate from an unsealed crawl space. With the carpet and padding out of the rv the subfloor needs to prepped and repaired to make the install of the new vinyl lay out smoothly with no imperfections. To remove old vinyl remove the transition strips image 1 that hold the carpet in place.

The average hourly rate is 60 per hour so expect to pay 180 in total for a contractor to remove and dispose of 12 by. It s inexpensive and easy to install. This equals 48 to 72 per hour because it usually takes 3 hours to remove carpet from a 12 by 12 foot room including extracting the tack strips and staples. Planks and tiles run a little more 1 85 3.

The old vinyl will probably come up in small pieces and in some areas the paper backing separates from the vinyl itself and remains on the floor. Vinyl flooring is a popular option. Carpet padding is usually stapled down to the wood subfloor with staples and sometimes the factory worker installing it uses a lot of staples which was our case. However with carpet in particular the subfloor can be exposed to excess moisture leaking down through the floor.

Costs to install vinyl or linoleum flooring run from 3 10 a square foot. In some circumstances you can install new flooring such as laminate flooring hardwood or engineered flooring over vinyl flooring as long as it is in good condition. Details cutting laminate floor and prep work before installing new laminate flooring. If you are ready to upgrade your existing floor you will need to remove the old vinyl first.

A vinyl or linoleum sheet floor can be installed for as little as 0 84 per square foot and run up to 1 36 a square foot. Even if you are hiring someone to install new flooring you may want to pull out the old carpet yourself. Removing old carpet is the first step toward having something besides old stained carpet as your floor. If you want to install lv flooring in both you ll have to remove the underlayment in the kitchen or add some to the dining room.

Use a heavy duty scraper to remove the old vinyl image 2. Carpet removal costs 1 to 1 50 per square foot including labor cleanup and waste disposal. It is hard work. Existing sheet vinyl and carpet if your kitchen floor is sheet vinyl and the dining room is carpet don t forget that the sheet vinyl will have a 1 4 inch underlayment beneath it but the carpet won t.