Installing Vinyl Plank Flooring Over Vct

Vinyl tile comes in two forms.

Installing vinyl plank flooring over vct.

When installing new resilient tile such as premium excelon vct and standard excelon vct armstrong flooring allows the use of s 89 s 515 s 700 and s 750 resilient tile adhesives over old adhesive residue as long as the adhesive residue has no ridges or puddles evident and what remains is a thin smooth film. Trim the short tongue edge from the first vinyl plank. If you don t have floor cleaner mix a few drops of dish detergent with water to clean the floor. How to install vinyl plank flooring as a beginner.

Lay the first plank appropriately spaced from the wall. The other which is referred to as peel and stick. In rare cases a homeowner will install a new vinyl floor over an existing one. Vinyl flooring over ceramic tile.

Follow the instructions of your chose skim coat product and mix it with water and use a masonry trowel to spread it all over the entire floor. See my flooring install playlist. Unlike tile floors which have a very specific series of underlayment requirements vinyl plank floors can be installed over existing flooring so long as it is clean of debris in good repair and. For the second row use the same.

Install the second plank by holding it at an angle and. Then use a level to find any spots where the ground is uneven and apply concrete self leveling compound to even it out. Continue in this manner for the remainder of the row trimming the last plank as needed. If the tile floor has wide or deep seams use an underlayment rather than installing the vinyl directly on the tile.

One requires adhesive very much like ceramic tiles do. If that s what you re doing the first step is to do a deep clean of the old vinyl with floor cleaner. A thin layer of joint compound suitable for indoor use spread over the old vinyl floor will patch up any gaps or dents and the holes left by removing the broken bits of the old vinyl floor. Installing vinyl tile over existing vinyl floor.

Cracked or missing tiles should be fixed or filled in.