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Replacing vinyl floor (that's on top of old tiles & screed)

Anonymous user 09/03/2024 - 3.09 PM

About 2 years ago and on a budget, we wanted to change our kitchen flooring from ugly looking tiles. Someone from MyBuilder came and screed over the tiles and laid the vinyl I'd bought off the internet. Sadly due to cheap thin vinyl and not putting soft pads on our kitchen chair feet, the vinyl pretty quickly ripped up and now looks truly awful. We are planning to sell in the next year and so don't want to invest a lot, but we do need to fix the issue and would like to use something better quality this time. So my questions are - Firstly, is it ok to pull up the old vinyl and put new flooring on top of the screed? - was this the correct thing to do in the first place? Secondly and my main question really (as not sure we can afford to do anything else!) - can anyone recommend a good, modern, quality, easy to install flooring we can put on top of the old screed? Don't mind what it is - probably would need to some sort of vinyl/lino/click tiles or something. Just wary we prob can't go too thick due to the tiles and screed already down. Thanks in advance for your time.

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4 Answers

G&G flooring

Rating: 5 out of 5

Swansea

Lift old vynyle and replace a new piece screed should be ok if old vynyle was glued all over just glue another vynyle on top of old one hope that helps

Answered17 May 2020

Home sweet services

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Stockton On Tees

hi, as you mentioned that you're on budget when you get vinyl couple of years back so I won't blame fitter , or suppliers, I believe there are many flooring options in the market and depends how much you spend and how you use it. according to my experience same quality of carpet or vinyl can useful for years if you look after the floor . I have done jobs with same quality for different person and believe me for same things there are positive and negative reviews, again depends how you use it. secondly yes quality does matter as you mentioned again and again that you are in budget and o the other hand you want something very good and long lasting, you can buy 1 litter orange juice may be for £1 or £3 as well but when you drink you will feel the difference. yes you can lift up that vinyl and get something nice vinyl flooring that last for years. I would apologize if you feel anything harsh from me. thank you so much

Answered18 May 2020

GS Bundey flooring contractor

Rating: 5 out of 5

Longfield

You need to uplift old vinyl , scrape up all loose screed , prime floor , re - screed Floor then fit new vinyl, no shortcut to a proper job I’m affraid.

Answered18 May 2020

GL Flooring

Rating: 5 out of 5

Kirkcaldy

By the sounds of it. The vinyls only been perimeter stuck. Due to the movement on the feet of the furniture it’s caused the vinyl to tare/Rip. Lift the old vinyl replace with new doesn’t matter thickness of vinyl. Just make sure the new vinyl is Put down with an adhesive fully stuck then it will be solid to the floor/screed. Then it doesn’t matter what rubs on it As it will be solid to the floor. This will prevent things like this happening. Hope this helps. Thanks 😊

Answered22 May 2020