Working on renovating this 40 year old house and my husband says this underlayment doesn't have to be replaced. He's only going to replace the parts where there are water stains. It's particle board and in this particular room it looks like there are mold spots everywhere? Or maybe it's just dirty glue, not sure. He says it's sticky! I guess I'm just grossed out that we're not going to replace it all. We're trying to save money but I just wanted your opinions! We're going to put LVP flooring downstairs and carpet upstairs!
I usually tear out particle board when I encounter it because it's problematic. If it's still flat and no nail squeaks, it can stay... just use a mold primer on it if that worries you.
Carpet cleaning is destructive on particle board. And if you are putting down LVP the main thing is flat.
XSleeper thank you so much! That mold primer made me feel so much better! Hubby didn't know about it either 🙂 I can see how particle board and carpet would be problematic for carpet cleanings. I guess we'll have to put some sort of moisture barrier down (or the carpet installers will) I will have to research that one! Thanks again for your help!
1.5 year old house, we are the second owner (1 year) but the first guy never lived in the house. Hardwood floors look nice but lots of pops and crackles when walking on them (kitchen-great room-hallway approx 1200 sq. ft.) I researched this a while back and read some where that this is common for new installation and should go away after a year. A year later and it's still bad. From what I can tell they didn't prepare the subfloor surface properly. From the basement the subfloor is soundly attached to the engineered trusses including liquid nails).
To late to complain to the builder or installer, wondering if anybody has any recommendations on how to eliminate the snap, crackle, pop. So far I think injecting an epoxy or glue of some sort under the hardwood floor may be my only option. Read More
Hi All , what is the best approach to eliminate squeaking floors, it seems to be the entire floor, solid hardwood and sun floor appears to be ply wood , looking for suggestions before installing laminate.
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08-12-22, 03:24 PM
