From the 1930s to the mid 1970s vinyl flooring contained asbestos which is not safe for you to remove yourself.
Can you put vinyl over vinyl.
You look at your old laminate floors and ask yourself can vinyl flooring be laid over laminate flooring why luxury vinyl over laminate is a bad idea.
Fortunately it is not difficult to install vinyl tile over your vinyl floor as.
And if you don t do any prep work you won t be very happy with the results.
If the linoleum is in good shape.
Vinyl flooring cannot effectively bridge over or smooth out substrate imperfections in the way that thicker inflexible floor coverings can.
Vinyl plank s are usually a thin type of flooring that are bendy in nature.
You have decided it is time to update your old laminate floors and decided on new luxury vinyl plank.
But you can do the same to prepare your floor so the new vinyl flooring will have a perfectly even surface to adhere to.
You can put peel and stick tile over existing vinyl but there are certainly right and wrong ways to do it.
If the underlying vinyl isn t in good condition you won t be very happy with the results.
I ve seen this go well and i ve seen it go poorly.
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.