Installing laminate flooring....need help..


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Old 01-18-07, 11:13 AM
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Installing laminate flooring....need help..

We are installing laminate flooring on the main floor. We started pulling up the carpet and realized that our kitchen and front enterance (which is lino at the moment) is higher than our living room floor.

I dont' see a problem with this......hubby on the other hand figures he needs to go by MDF and lay that on our living room floor so we can bring it up to the same height as kitchen and such....

Would we not be better to just get a reducing strip (or whatever it is called....blonde moment today)....He is just worried that you will have to "step down" into the living room (but its only 3/16" )

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Old 01-19-07, 10:02 AM
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Your hubby knows what will work and look best.

That is going to be easier, but more costly, then removing the underlayment and vinyl in the kitchen, to get back down to the same subfloor height.
 
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Old 01-19-07, 11:32 AM
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my opinion and what i would do is to use the reducing strip. less work, less money and no one will know the difference, 1/4" isn't that much.
 
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Old 01-19-07, 12:29 PM
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Certainly you know that MDF is not floor material, good for cabinets, bad for floors you must mean luann or birch 1/4 underlayment.
If you do not want to do the wood here is an option, I will add,the wood is preferable

I have spanned this type of area in the past with tarpaper rather than over laying the whole floor with underlaymnnet you can just bring the level at transition up with multipule layers of tar paper.
1st piece 40 " from break second piece 10" less 3rd piece 10"less
If it requires a fourth piec expand all pieces to accomadate
I explained like this on another thread:
Tar paper=*
*__________ |-------------------
*__________ | ^ Subfloor to kitchen^
*________ entry level_________

If this make sense.....
 

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The core of many, many laminates is MDF, going over MDF with a flaoting laminate will work. It is about the only flooring that will.
 
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Old 01-19-07, 08:20 PM
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Mdf is like a sponge. I have never laid on a floor nor seen it laid on a floor.
Laminate is a little more moisture resisitant than raw mdf with its primary and secondary wearlayers not to mention I cannot recall seeing much 1/4 mdf anywhere, maybe I was just not looking.
 
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Are you thinking of particle board? Or masonite.

That doesn't sound like the mdf I know of.
 
 

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